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Social media makes it easy to spread ‘fake news’.
The full benefits of digital democracy are being thwarted by digital exclusion that is driven by the high cost of data.
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Media self-criticism is not just important to improve journalism, it is a political, professional and moral imperative.
It’s easy to edit video of public figures to make them appear asleep, confused, drunk or cognitively impaired when they are not. The technique is being used to undermine Joe Biden’s campaign.
Extremists are playing on people’s health fears to normalise their views.
Using the law - or changing it - to stop the spread of dangerous disinformation should be a last resort.
Those opposing vaccinations often mistrust government, science and the news media. There may be better ways to persuade them than by offering facts only.
Amid global chaos and uncertainty, Instagram offers up the world as stable, simple and good-looking. No wonder it is set to overtake Twitter as a news source.
When it comes to COVID-19 misinformation, not all nations are the same. Some are peddling a larger variety of myths than others - and each seems to have its own personal favourite.
A tale of two leaders on Twitter in the age of COVID-19.
New research shows how a lack of basic information caused by the language barrier can lead to the spread of fake news in refugee communites.
In Africa, people who report higher levels of exposure to disinformation also report lower levels of media trust.
The freedom of the press is important, and of course it must be protected. But the freedom of everybody else and of ordinary citizens is also important.
Unlike the US, Australia hasn’t yet been hit by a large-scale disinformation campaign focussed on meddling with elections. But this is a ‘realistic prospect’ moving forward.
The World Health Organization says the abundance of misinformation swirling around COVID-19 is as dangerous as the virus itself. There are ways to fight this, however.
While trust in media has risen in both the US and Australia, a sharp partisan divide is apparent in Americans’ trust in media.
False information about the new coronavirus is a big threat to containing the pandemic but governments must not use ‘fake news’ as an excuse to limit freedom of expression.
The conspiracy theory that Covid-19 was created in a laboratory has been widely reported, yet there is no evidence to support it. Why such theories thrive can easily be explained, however.
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