Voters in Midwestern states are seeing ads railing against President Biden’s gas car ban. But there’s one catch: the Biden administration hasn’t prohibited gas-powered vehicles. That’s not stopping fossil fuel industry groups and former President Donald Trump from targeting swing state voters with warnings of car bans.
Georgia Public Radio / NPR
This month, the U.S. Department of Justice shut down nearly 1,000 pro-Russia social media bots masquerading as American citizens. Their goal was to promote stories that showed Russia and President Vladimir Putin in a favorable light while sowing discord here in the U.S.
The Excerpt / USA Today
Many sources compete for attention online, including partisan blogs and bogus sites posing as legitimate news organizations. It can be tough to know what information to trust. So, what does “credibility” look like, and how can you recognize it?
News Literacy Project
To fight disinformation in a chaotic election year, Ruth Quint, a volunteer for a nonpartisan civic group in Pennsylvania, is relying on tactics both extensively studied and frequently deployed. Many of them, however, may also be futile.
New York Times
The aftermath of the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump was chaotic as officials, rally attendees, and online audiences tried to make sense of a dynamic and, at times, conflicting information space.
Center for an Informed Public
The assassination attempt that narrowly missed Donald Trump at a campaign rally on July 13 has prompted a deluge of misinformation and disinformation online. Predictably, the unique circumstances of the shooting that left one dead and others injured has led to wild conjecture.
TIME
As social media promulgates the usual kind of unsubstantiated and ill-informed theories about the shooting of former President Trump, one post being circulated attempts to implicate Arizona State University. In response to all this nonsense, I would like to caution everyone once again about believing the things you read on social media.
Arizona State University
Within minutes of the gunfire, the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump spawned a vast sea of claims — some outlandish, others contradictory — reflecting the frightening uncertainties of the moment as well as America’s fevered, polarized political climate.
The Associated Press
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is paying more attention to the security risks of climate change, along with warming's implications in the Arctic, a new report shows.
Axios
Social media posts are sharing a video of the Federal Reserve building in Washington as evidence that the US central bank has no money. But the 2023 clip shows a white construction fence installed for renovation work, and economists say the Fed has wide-ranging powers that make it virtually impossible to run out of cash.
Agence France-Presse
To cut through online noise and potentially false information surrounding the U.S. elections and ensure that voters go to the polls armed with verified facts, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation last week announced it will put nearly $7 million toward fighting misinformation in states crucial to determining the results in November.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
The U.S. Justice Department said Tuesday it had uncovered and dismantled a Russian propaganda network with nearly 1,000 accounts pushing pro-Russia posts on the social media platform X.
NBC News
Researchers at the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Countering Digital Hate tested six of the most popular AI voice-cloning tools to see if they would generate audio clips of five false statements about elections in the voices of eight prominent American and European politicians.
The Associated Press
The agency is providing updated recommendations to empower industry seeking to voluntarily address misinformation about or related to their approved/cleared medical products.
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
The BBC’s Disinformation and Social Media correspondent Marianna Spring has some top tips and talks through the deceptive misinformation tactics she’s spotted on the social media feeds of ‘Undercover Voter’ accounts she created.
British Broadcasting Corporation
Half the global population are voting in elections in 2024. Many already have. This has prompted concerns about fairness and electoral integrity, particularly with the growth of generative AI.
The Conversation
The Philadelphia City Commissioner’s office is spending $1.4 million to hire an outside marketing firm to connect with voters and combat misinformation ahead of the November election.
Axios
Steven Brill writes in his new book that bad information online is eroding trust in institutions and polarizing the world. It’s an argument that has birthed cottage industries of think tanks, nonprofits and media fact-checking operations that seek to counter disinformation.
The Washington Post
Latino voters will be one of the most decisive demographics in the 2024 presidential election. But many are being bombarded with misleading information about politics.
National Public Radio
A historic lunar mission has demonstrated China's growing scientific prowess, but the feat has set off a torrent of misinformation targeting the United States that researchers say reflects their bitter competition in space.
Phys.org / Agence France-Presse
