fake news

Fake news is a complex problem and can span text, images and video.For written articles in particular, there are several ways of generating fake news. A fake news article could be produced by selectively editing facts, including people's names, dates or statistics. An article could also be completely fabricated with made-up events or people. Fake news articles can also be machine-generated as advances in artificial intelligence make it particularly easy to generate misinformation. Damaging effectsQuestions like: “Was…

A sharp weekend crypto selloff led by a slump in smaller digital tokens set off a fresh wave of anxiety among investors, following a week in which a crackdown by the US Securities and Exchange Commission on the sector gained significant pace.Altcoins including Cardano's ADA tumbled as much as 25% on Saturday before paring a sliver of the decline, while tokens including Solana's SOL, Polygon's MATIC and Avalanche's AVAX posted double-digit percentage drops. Bitcoin, the largest digital asset, slid about 3% as of 11 a.m.…

Twitter is expanding its Community Notes feature to allow users to add context to images shared on the micro blogging app. It has introduced a new feature…

China’s top internet media regulator ramped up its latest social media crackdown over the weekend, deleting 1.4 million posts and deactivating around 67,000 accounts. The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) claims the sweeping actions were taken to combat a rise in misinformation and other harmful content, though human rights groups and experts have long criticized the country’s social media takedowns as overly broad acts of political censorship.How Conspiracy Theories and Disinformation Spiral Out of Control on the…

China's cyberspace regulator said 1.4 million social media posts have been deleted following a two-month probe into alleged misinformation, illegal profiteering, and impersonation of state officials, among other "pronounced problems".The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said it had closed 67,000 social media accounts and deleted hundreds of thousands of posts between March 10 and May 22 as part of a broader "rectification" campaign. Since 2021, China has targeted billions of social media accounts in a bid to…

There are lots of ways to write a headline, many of them bad. Take this article, for instance. It might’ve been titled:Why Banning TikTok Won’t Protect Our PrivacyYou’ll Never Believe What This App Lets Users DoorEmerging App Wages War Against Fake Newsor evenThis Trendy News App Empowers Users With One Weird Trick.But if it had been, then you might’ve felt let down by the actual content of the story. Clickbait tends to do that: make big promises, build expectations, and then deliver something much less exciting than…

Breaking news: The U.S. Pentagon is NOT under attack. But that didn’t stop false reports of an explosion from circulating widely online along with a seemingly AI-generated image of billowing black smoke near the Department of Defense headquarters on Monday.How To Remove Followers From TwitterMultiple blue-check “verified” Twitter users re-posted the fake photo along with text insinuating an active emergency situation was ongoing at the Pentagon, and later the White House. Accounts amplifying the false narratives included…

In November, venerable tech outlet CNET began publishing articles generated by artificial intelligence, on topics such as personal finance, that proved to be riddled with errors. Today the human members of its editorial staff have unionized, calling on their bosses to provide better conditions for workers and more transparency and accountability around the use of AI.“In this time of instability, our diverse content teams need industry-standard job protections, fair compensation, editorial independence, and a voice in the…

In what appears to be the case of the first arrest for the use of the artificial intelligence platform ChatGPT, a man in China was arrested for writing fake news stories with the help of the AI platform. The man allegedly posted a fake news…

Chinese police arrested a man Sunday in what could be one of the first precedent-setting cases of a person using ultra-popular AI chatbot ChatGPT to allegedly spread misinformation. That, or it could be a new means for state actors to discredit real news by proclaiming it’s all a lie manufactured by generative AI. Maybe AI-Written Scripts are a Bad Idea?As reportedby the South China Morning Post Monday, police in the Gansu province in Northern China say they arrested a man for allegedly creating fake articles about a…