What Will the Internet Look Like in 2121?
With online interactions at the center of daily life for many during the COVID-19 pandemic, it can be...
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Spotting Misinformation Online About Russia/Ukraine Crisis
Fox 5 DC spoke to Rebekah Tromble, director of the Institute for Data, Democracy and Politics, about...
Fake photos and footage spread across social media as conflict in Ukraine erupts
When Russia launched an attack on Ukraine earlier this week, people around the...
The director of communications in the Ontario ministry responsible for enforcing the law is out of a...
Facebook Corrections Found to Reduce Misinformation
Fact-checks added to posts on a Facebook news feed were found to reduce users’ acceptance of...
‘Cheap fakes’: Viral videos keep clipping Biden’s words out of context
In an October 2020 campaign speech in Georgia, just days before the election that sent him to the White...
The Canadian ‘Freedom Convoy’ is backed by a Bangladeshi marketing firm and right-wing fringe groups
A Bangladeshi firm appears to have played a key role in promoting the Ottawa protest online, and Grid...
Does banning extremists online work? It depends.
It’s been over a year since Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube banned an array of domestic extremist...
Rogan backlash raising questions about changing face of misinformation
There is continued backlash against podcaster Joe Rogan for including doctors on his show...
Broadly speaking, the Internet has made more stories available at every point on this wants/...