It only takes seconds for misinformation to be posted and shared on social media. The consequences of that were seen in real-time following the shooting at the Chiefs Super Bowl rally last year. Denton Loudermill Jr. was falsely labeled as the shooter.
KSHB-TV 41 Kansas City
The National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) has honored Cronkite School assistant teaching professor Celeste Sepessy with its Media Literacy Higher Education Teacher Award—recognition for her deep commitment and significant contributions to the field.
Walter Cronkite School of Journalism
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The Conversation
Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of LinkedIn, is in a difficult position — on the outs with President Trump, a new administration and his former friend Elon Musk. He was one of the important tech bros not on the President's inauguration stage. Why?
National Public Radio
The COVID-19 pandemic illuminated a vast landscape of misinformation about many topics, science and health chief among them. Since then, information overload continues unabated, and many people are rightfully confused by an onslaught of conflicting health information. Even expert advice is often contradictory.
The Conversation
The Philippines launched a comic book last week to counter what the country says is China’s disinformation campaign to push its expansive territorial claims in the South China Sea.
The Associated Press
It is no understatement to say that social media has dramatically altered the news landscape, often degrading civic discourse into a battleground of misinformation. Young people, who spend much of their lives online, are thrown into this complex world without the necessary tools to navigate the falsehoods and conspiracy theories that crowd out the facts.
USA TODAY
over the past years, we’ve seen the emergence of a confluence of factors (including sourcing from automated, AI-generated social media trawls and strongly politicized information collection), which will inevitably create a distortion in conflict data.
POLITICO
A Russian organization linked to the Kremlin’s covert influence campaigns posted more than 8,000 political advertisements on Facebook despite European and American restrictions barring companies from doing business with the organization, according to three organizations that track disinformation online.
The New York Times
The former editor of USA TODAY was eager to get back to local news after taking in a firsthand view of the nation’s polarization and chaos spawned by misinformation. She knew local news was a solution for both.
The Poynter Institute
For Washington Secretary of State Steve Hobbs, safeguarding the integrity of elections is no easy task. Over the past 18 months, his office has identified 127 instances of false or misleading information about elections and election officials circulating online within the state.
Fox 13 Seattle
Germany's interior minister told social media platforms on Wednesday to do more to prevent disinformation before next month's election, such as clearly identifying political advertising and labelling videos manipulated with AI.
Reuters
President Donald Trump on Monday ordered that no federal officer, employee or agent may unconstitutionally abridge the free speech of any American citizen, an early step toward his campaign promise to dismantle what he called government ‘censorship’ of U.S. citizens.
The Associated Press
Last summer, 7-year-old Zusha came home from day camp frightened by a scary story. According to his mother, Yael Shy, he said: ‘My friend George told me about a milkshake that you drink, and then somebody comes and murders you. There’s videos of it, and it’s real, and the counselors know about it too!’
National Geographic
The results of the 2024 presidential election have ushered in a new era of uncertainty for public health. With Donald Trump back in the White House and his choice of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—notorious for backing some public health conspiracy theories—as a key figure in the health sector, the stakes are immense.
Harvard Public Health
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has taken a lot of heat since announcing that he is pulling his company out of the fact-checking business and curtailing content moderation on its platforms. The criticism is understandable, given the uncertainty over how Meta’s new rules will handle misinformation and otherwise harmful material.
Washington Post
In a strategic step towards combating disinformation and hate speech in Lebanon, UNESCO signed a Tripartite Partnership Agreement this week under the leadership of Ministry of Information with the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie.
UNESCO
Risk specialists identified armed conflict, extreme weather and disinformation among the top global risks for the year ahead, according to a World Economic Forum (WEF) survey released on Wednesday.
CNBC
Europe’s Digital Services Act promised to safeguard democracy from the digital world’s dangerous hazards: disinformation, hate speech, and manipulative online campaigns targeting elections. But the law’s high-minded ambitions have collided with the challenges of on-the-ground enforcement.
Center for European Policy Analysis