A group of leading Black organizations are warning media and voters of disinformation targeting Black Americans ahead of November’s critical election. A letter by Onyx Impact urged Black media to recognize the impact disinformation has on Black voters.
The Hill
It is easy to get distracted by the barbs, swipes and bluster of the ongoing and very public spat between the world’s richest man and a fierce justice on Brazil’s highest court. Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X, posts regularly of his contempt for Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes – a man Musk has labeled a 'dictator' and 'Brazil’s Darth Vader.'
The Conversation
Gates, the subject of numerous conspiracy theories, is likely more familiar with misinformation than he’d care to be. But a conversation with his daughter Phoebe further opened his eyes on the issue’s severity, he says.
CNBC Make It
The European Union’s Disinformation Lab has recently exposed a sophisticated Russian influence campaign known as 'DoppelGänger,' which promotes pro-Russian narratives and infiltrates Europe’s media landscape by disseminating disinformation through a network of cloned websites, fake articles, and social media manipulation.
US Cyber Command
The Integrity Project gathers a prestigious group of media and academic experts for an important virtual conversation September 27, and invites the public to join in.
The Integrity Project
As counties across the state are in the final stages of designing and printing your November ballots, a CBS News California investigation found roughly half of California voters will have someone new to the job running their presidential election this year.
CBS News
Federal officials have accused Russia of using unwitting right-wing American influencers in its quest to spread Kremlin propaganda ahead of the 2024 presidential election. The Justice Department charged two employees of RT, Russian state media broadcaster, in a scheme to secretly fund and direct the production of social media videos that racked up millions of views.
National Public Radio
In an era dominated by social media, misinformation has become an all too familiar foe, infiltrating our feeds and sowing seeds of doubt and confusion. With more than half of social media users across 40 countries encountering false or misleading information weekly, it’s clear that we’re facing a crisis of misinformation on a global scale.
Nieman Lab
When he first emerged on social media, the user known as Harlan claimed to be a New Yorker and an Army veteran who supported Donald Trump for president. Harlan said he was 29, and his profile picture showed a smiling, handsome young man. A few months later, Harlan underwent a transformation. Now, he claimed to be 31 and from Florida..
The Associated Press
ABC News
As Brazil grappled with a flood of online disinformation around its 2022 presidential election, the nation’s Supreme Court made an unusual and fateful decision: It gave one justice sweeping powers to order social networks to take down content he believed threatened democracy.
The New York Times
A new United Nations report calls for countries to impose stricter legal penalties on businesses for contributing to climate change, including legal liability for “misinformation” relating to climate change and a ban of advertising by fossil fuel companies..
Forbes
Prince Harry of Sussex in the U.K. has hit out at the dangers of social media disinformation - days after false online rumors led to rioting across Britain. The royal, 39, spoke at the Responsible Digital Future forum in Bogota.
The Mirror
Growing numbers of Americans are buying into misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines, according to a new national survey, with more than one in five believing it's safer to get the virus than to get a shot.
Axios
The Centres for Information Resilience and CNN identified 56 fake accounts, with at least 17 using images of real European women without their consent to promote a pro-GOP and Trump agenda ahead of the 2024 U.S. elections.
CNN
Imagine you’re walking down the street and a random guy asks you to solve a math problem. A complicated one, but one you know how to solve — it’d just take several minutes of some fairly serious thinking on your part. Would you do it?
Nieman Lab
Top election officials from Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Washington sent a letter this month to Elon Musk complaining that the platform’s AI chatbot, Grok, produced false information about state ballot deadlines shortly after President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race.
The Associated Press
While the mpox outbreak in Africa is worrisome, federal health officials insist that this virus is dramatically different than Covid, and is highly unlikely to lead to school closures. That hasn't stopped online chatter to the contrary.
NBC News
New research shows exactly how communities of color are being targeted by "bad information," with concerned community members making up the best frontline defense against disinformation targeting Asian and Latino Americans on today's information battlefield – specifically ahead of the 2024 election.
Scripps News
Taylor Swift didn’t endorse former President Donald Trump last weekend. Ryan Reynolds wasn’t photographed wearing a pro-Kamala Harris shirt. And the Communist Party USA never backed President Joe Biden’s now-defunct campaign.
CNN
The Summer Olympics opened in Paris on 26 July 2024, with over 11,000 athletes present for three weeks of competition and millions of people watching around the globe. Though the games are intended to represent international unity and cooperation, they also have a long history of politicization, controversy and misinformation.
Global Disinformation Index
