Tag: fake news

• He Combs the Web for Russian Bots. That Makes Him a Target.

  February 11, 2020

  Ben Nimmo helped pioneer disinformation investigations. His work is now more urgent as misleading internet tactics spread. HADDINGTON, Scotland — In August 2017, Ben Nimmo was declared dead by 13,000… more ›

• Enforcing Against Manipulated Media

  January 12, 2020

  People share millions of photos and videos on Facebook every day, creating some of the most compelling and creative visuals on our platform. Some of that content is manipulated, often… more ›

• Removing Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior From Georgia, Vietnam and the US

  December 22, 2019

  Today, we removed two unconnected networks of accounts, Pages and Groups for engaging in foreign and government interference — which is coordinated inauthentic behavior on behalf of a government or… more ›

• The News Provenance Project

  July 29, 2019

  The News Provenance Project is exploring new ways for publishers to help fight misinformation. https://www.newsprovenanceproject.com/ more ›

• How Much of the Internet Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually.

  January 6, 2019

  In late November, the Justice Department unsealed indictments against eight people accused of fleecing advertisers of $36 million in two of the largest digital ad-fraud operations ever uncovered. http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/how-much-of-the-internet-is-fake.html more ›

• Post-Authenticity and the Ironic Truths of…

  April 15, 2018

  Post-Authenticity and the Ironic Truths of Meme Culture » Reality’s been having a tough time of it lately. From fake news to fake video to the utter charade of our Instagram… more ›

• Inside the Two Years that Shook Facebook—and the…

  February 12, 2018

  Inside the Two Years that Shook Facebook—and the World » One day in late February of 2016, Mark Zuckerberg sent a memo to all of Facebook’s employees to address some… more ›

• new-aesthetic: Alternative Face v1.1 by Mario…

  September 25, 2017

  new-aesthetic: Alternative Face v1.1 by Mario Klingemann Using the face landmarks of another person a generative adversarial network generates a new face, in this case it was trained on the face of… more ›

• How Anti-Science Forces Thrive On Facebook

  March 9, 2017

  How Anti-Science Forces Thrive On Facebook » In January, Natural News shared a big story on Facebook: A federal scientist had affirmed Donald Trump’s belief that vaccines cause autism. more ›

• Fake News Is About to Get Even Scarier than You…

  January 28, 2017

  Fake News Is About to Get Even Scarier than You Ever Dreamed » Less than a month after Donald Trump was improbably elected the 45th president of the United States,… more ›