The Supply of Disinformation Will Soon Be Infinite

Title:

The Supply of Disinformation Will Soon Be Infinite

 

Author:

Renée DiResta

 

Published:

The Atlantic, 20 September 2020

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/09/future-propaganda-will-be-computer-generated/616400/

 

From the article:

Disinformation campaigns used to require a lot of human effort, but artificial intelligence will take them to a whole new level.

 

National University of Singapore (NUS) - Fight fake news with the new LetsCheck platform

Title:
Fight fake news with the new LetsCheck platform

Published:
National University of Singapore (NUS), NUSnews, 7 September 2020
https://news.nus.edu.sg/research/fight-fake-news-new-letscheck-platform

From the article:
To help people verify claims surrounding COVID-19, the NUS Centre for Trusted Internet and Community (CTIC) has developed LetsCheck, an online platform that lets users check claims circulating on Twitter about the coronavirus against reputable scientific sources or news media outlets.

Computer Emergency Response Team Mauritius (CERT-MU) - Arrêtez les fausses nouvelles [Stop fake news]

Titre:
Fausses nouvelles: «Mo ti pé badiné», dit l’internaute
 
Par:
Nafiisah Peerbaye
 
Publié:
lexpress.mu, 21 juillet 2020
https://www.lexpress.mu/article/380226/fausses-nouvelles-mo-ti-pe-badine-dit-linternaute
 
Extrait d'article:
La Computer Emergency Response Team Mauritius (CERT-MU) avait mis en garde les internautes de ne point circuler des informations confidentielles sur des victimes sans l’autorisation des autorités et de ne pas véhiculer des fake news sur le Covid-19.

[The Computer Emergency Response Team Mauritius (CERT-MU) had warned Internet users not to circulate confidential information on victims without the authorization of the authorities and not to convey fake news on Covid-19.]

Short Article (April 2020) - WhatsApp tightens sharing limits to curb virus misinformation

Title:
WhatsApp tightens sharing limits to curb virus misinformation

Published:
Tech Xplore, 7 April 2020

From the article:
"WhatsApp on Tuesday placed new limits on message forwarding as part of an effort to curb the spread of misinformation about the coronavirus pandemic."

To read this article:
https://techxplore.com/news/2020-04-whatsapp-tightens-limits-curb-virus.html

Article from Futurism (13 February 2020) - This Site Uses AI to Generate Fake News Articles: It's hard to mince words about how much this sucks

Title:
This Site Uses AI to Generate Fake News Articles: It's hard to mince words about how much this sucks

Author:
Dan Robitzski

Published:
Futurism, 13 February 2020

From the article:
"A new website, “NotRealNews.net,” uses artificial intelligence to populate what resembles a news site’s home page, complete with AI-written fake news stories."

To read this article:
https://futurism.com/site-ai-generate-fake-news-articles

Short Article: You're probably more susceptable to misinformation than you think

Title:
You're probably more susceptable to misinformation than you think

Author:
Darren Lilleker

Published:
Phys.org, 13 January 2020

From the article:
"Online misinformation works, or so it would seem. One of the more interesting statistics from the 2019 UK general election was that 88% of advertisements posted on social media by the Conservative Party pushed figures that had already been deemed misleading by the UK's leading fact-checking organisation, Full Fact. And, of course, the Conservatives won the election by a comfortable margin.

Internet firms such as Facebook and Google are taking some steps to limit political misinformation."

To read this article:
https://phys.org/news/2020-01-youre-susceptible-misinformation.html

Scholarly Article: Libraries and Fake News: What's the Problem? What's the Plan?

Title:
Libraries and fake news: What's the problem? What's the plan?

Author:
Matthew C. Sullivan, Harvard University

Published:
Communications in Information Literacy, volume 13, issue 1, 2019
https://doi.org/10.15760/comminfolit.2019.13.1.7

From the abstract:
"This article surveys the library and information science (LIS) response to the problem of fake news and misinformation from the 2016 U.S. presidential election to the end of 2018, focusing on how librarians and other information professionals in the United States have articulated the problems and the paths forward for combatting them. Additionally, the article attempts to locate the LIS response in a larger interdisciplinary misinformation research program, provide commentary on the response in view of that research program, and lay out both a possible research agenda for the field and practical next steps for educators ahead of the 2020 election."

Scholarly Article: Shades of Fake News: Manifestation, Effects and Ways to Combat False Information

Title:
Shades of Fake News: Manifestation, Effects and Ways to Combat False Information

Author:
Alexandru Christian Dumitrache, National University of Political Studies and Public Administration

Published:
Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations, 21(2), 41-57, July 2019. https://doi.org/10.21018/rjcpr.2019.2.276

From the abstract:
"This paper addresses the complex concept of fake news, presenting its significance and highlighting its different types, from propaganda to news satire; the moderators of the fake news effects and the ways to counter disinformation."