In what has become a pattern of spreading vaccine misinformation, the Florida health department is telling older Floridians and others at highest risk from COVID-19 to avoid most booster shots, saying they are potentially dangerous.
CBS News / KFF Health News
In a Sep. 17 blog post, Google announced that, in the coming months, metadata in search, images, and ads will indicate whether an image was photographed with a camera, edited in Photoshop, or created with AI. The company joins other tech companies, including Adobe, in labeling AI-generated images.
TechRepublic
The @KamalaHQ account, which has more than 1.3 million followers on the X social media platform formerly known as Twitter, has made a habit of misleadingly clipping and inaccurately captioning video clips to attack former President Donald Trump.
CNN
In early 2017, when then-presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway referenced a deadly Bowling Green terrorist attack that never actually happened, residents were happy to make jokes and have some lighthearted fun.
Government Technology
During the run-up to the 2022 midterms and its aftermath, DENIAL, a short documentary from The New Yorker, shows the effect of election conspiracies in the crucial jurisdiction of Maricopa County, Arizona, through the experience of one elected official, then-County Supervisor Bill Gates..
The New Yorker
The Republican nominee for president went on live TV and presented an unhinged, debunked Facebook rumor as fact. When corrected (several times) by a moderator, Donald Trump doubled down: “The people on television say their dog was eaten by the people that went there.”
CNN
Billionaire Steve Ballmer of Microsoft and NBA Clippers fame, started USAFacts, which is rolling out a series of educational videos ahead of the November elections.
The Guardian
At least 21 state legislatures have taken steps to reform K–12 media and information literacy education, with California, Delaware, Illinois, and New Jersey passing comprehensive reforms, per the 2024 U.S. Media Literacy Policy Report by Media Literacy Now.
American Psychological Association
Across West Texas’ Permian Basin, the oil industry’s presence seeps into many facets of life. Businesses from hotels to veterinary clinics display oil pump jacks on their signs. An oil derrick is part of the logo for the city of Midland.
Santa Fe New Mexican
The highly anticipated debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris was a combative event in which facts were repeatedly trampled and distorted. In a lengthy exchange on the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, Trump made several statements that were either false, misleading or unsupported, and Harris got a couple of facts wrong, too..
FactCheck.org
The Annenberg Public Policy Center health survey data finds that the number of Americans believing COVID-19 vaccination misinformation has risen and their willingness to take or recommend vaccination against COVID-19 is lower than in the past.
Penn Today
We live in an age of alternate facts. More and more Americans are getting their information almost entirely from outlets that echo their own political point of view. And then, of course, there's social media, where there are few (if any) filters between users and a wide world of misinformation.
CBS News
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
