The Australian government wants to introduce powers to fine social media platforms up to 5% of their global revenue if they fail to stop the spread of misinformation under a revised legislative plan introduced Thursday, Reuters reports. The planned law, which looks similar to the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA), drew swift condemnation from […]
BigHit Music Officially Apologizes For Releasing Misinformation About BTS Suga’s Drunk Driving Incident
On August 7, 2024, BTS‘s Suga was caught drunk driving an electric scooter. Public criticism ensued when it was later found out that BigHit Music and Suga’s initial statements both claimed that he had been riding an electric kickboard. CCTV footage later showed that he had been riding an electric scooter. The latter is much […]
Secretaries of state urge X to stop its Grok chatbot from spreading election misinformation
Grok — not to be confused with the homophonic AI startup Groq that this morning raised over $ 600 million — has been spreading false information about Vice President Kamala Harris on X, the social network formerly known as Twitter. That’s according to an open letter penned by five secretaries of state and addressed to […]
Misinformation works, and a handful of social ‘supersharers’ sent 80% of it in 2020
A pair of studies published Thursday in the journal Science offers evidence not only that misinformation on social media changes minds, but that a small group of committed “supersharers,” predominately older Republican women, were responsible for the vast majority of the “fake news” in the period looked at. The studies, by researchers at MIT, Ben-Gurion […]
India’s election overshadowed by the rise of online misinformation
As India kicks off the world’s biggest election, which starts on April 19 and runs through June 1, the electoral landscape is overshadowed by misinformation. The country — which has more than 830 million internet users and is home to the largest user base for social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram — is already […]