Browsing: Misinformation

For more than a decade, researchers and journalists have relied on a digital tool called CrowdTangle to track and fight…

As South Africa prepares for its seventh democratic election set for 29 May, TikTok is announcing several initiatives with the…

Minister in the Presidency, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, has challenged tech conglomerate Meta to deal with misinformation and called for fair treatment…

by Gale Sinatra, University of Southern California and Barbara K. Hofer, Middlebury Until very recently, if you wanted to know…

If you use such social media websites as Facebook and Twitter, you may have come across posts flagged with warnings…

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to widespread disinformation circulating on social media globally. This includes false information about the virus,…

As the second wave of COVID-19 sweeps across Africa, bringing steep increases in infections and deaths, the battle between facts…

by Bhaskar Chakravorti As we practice social distancing, our embrace of social media gets only tighter. The major social media…

by H. Colleen Sinclair Propagandists are already working to sow disinformation and social discord in the run-up to the November…

by Elizabeth Stoycheff You might have fallen for someone’s attempt to disinform you about current events. But it’s not your…