The process of conducting elections has become a focal point for misinformation.
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Misinformation has bedeviled social media companies for years, and the problem is especially consequential during elections. Are the companies up to the job as the 2022 midterm elections approach?
Candidate signs during the first day of early primary voting on July 7, 2022, in Silver Spring, Md.
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A partisan election system, attacks on election administration and widespread disinformation place the U.S. democracy in a precarious position.
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There is a lot of hype in psychedelics research at the moment. Here’s how to tell which research is good and which isn’t.
RT, a Russian government-operated media outlet, is just one of the players in the global information war.
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Russian government media are frequently criticized as being blatant propaganda. How do US government media measure up?
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Checks on information shared by politicians in Europe and the US showed those in the US shared more untrustworthy material.
‘Trallib (Oil Container),’ by Norman Daly, 1970. Daily made this object with an orange juicer.
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Norman Daly’s 1972 exhibition, ‘The Civilization of Llhuros,’ presented fiction as fact – and reminded viewers of just how easily they could be duped.
Fake science websites are dressing up their content as verified and authoritative.
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Bogus science articles are attempting to take advantage of our trust in experts.
Overconfidence about their political knowledge is common among Americans.
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Many Americans think they know much more about politics than they really do. That overconfidence can thwart democratic politics.
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Major public media reform in New Zealand is coming at the same time as trust in government and media declines. The proposed new law needs to make political and editorial independence a top priority.
Alex Jones claimed being deplatformed hurt his income.
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Online extremists may lose followers when removed from mainstream social media, but their remaining supporters can become even more toxic.
The amount of information online is overwhelming.
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The study is the largest of its kind. Researchers hope it could be a breakthrough in the fight against misinformation.
Disinformation can derail public health measures vital to controlling the spread of infectious disease.
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The spread of misinformation in many pandemics, including the smallpox and 1918 influenza outbreaks, have undermined efforts to contain infections and prevent deaths.
Not every ‘expert’ has the expertise to back up their argument.
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How to use language clues to see through someone’s ‘expert’ facade.
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Anti-vaccine group moderators said Facebook provided an environment where they could safely offer support to others.
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Newspapers were writing about climate change more than a century ago. Here’s why it’s taken so long to start tackling it.
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Disinformation is a plague infecting all forms of media, but efforts abound to control it both here in Australia and around the world.
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Mainstream medicine hasn’t yet found enough evidence-based treatments for long COVID. No wonder sufferers are turning to unproven therapies.
Most of us acquire our beliefs using a combination of research and social networks. Those social networks can provide false information.
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Instead of complacent acceptance of misinformed beliefs, we need institutional moves to cultivate trust between experts and the public.
An image of a mock gallows on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, is shown as the House select committee holds hearings in June 2022 into the attack.
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It’s easy to consider the erosion of democratic norms in the U.S. as purely political, but it poses serious risks to the country’s economic order. Is democracy in the gallows?
Earlier this year, a deepfake impersonating Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spread on social media – with Zelenskyy supposedly asking Ukrainians to surrender to Russia.