Tourists wear mask at the airport in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in late January as precautionary measures amid coronavirus outbreak.
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To mitigate the dissemination of medical hoaxes, Southeast asian governments have taken various approaches.
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We claim not to trust social media yet it seems to shape our political opinions.
A targeted, coordinated online campaign has tried to mislead the public. While the myths have been debunked, the culpable parties remain unknown.
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We found about 300 suspicious Twitter accounts, which we suspect included a high proportion of bots and trolls pushing the #ArsonEmergency narrative.
NASA’s Worldview software gives you a satellite view of Earth right now, and can help track the spread of fires.
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By understanding how bushfire maps are created, and what their features represent, you can get better at spotting fake ones.
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Only 2% of children have the skills needed to identify a credible news story.
At Echo Point lookout in Katoomba, NSW, people watch smoke from the Green Wattle Creek fire beyond The Three Sisters rock formation.
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Instagram bushfire images cut through our news fatigue. This developing brand of photojournalism brings authenticity and a different sense of proximity.
If only it was this easy.
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Even established political parties are using a host of tricks to manipulate the news.
The Vote Leave bus.
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Economic forecasts are flawed but they should not be blindly dismissed as fake facts.
Efforts to mitigate the double edged nature of social media in politics must take into account local information environments
World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee delivers a speech marking 30 years since its creation, March 12 2019.
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Can we make the web more inclusive or will our online reality always be a lawless wasteland of trolls and lies?
News literacy involves understanding how news filters into the public domain.
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The effective teaching of news literacy needs to go beyond simple fact-checking, a journalism professor argues.
Neural networks can generate artificial representations of human faces, as well as realistic renderings of actual people.
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Twitter’s proposed policy would result in the prolific spread of fabricated, but highly realistic images and videos. This could allow widespread misinformation on the platform.
Fake news works at a cognitive level to shape our perceptions and drive our decisions.
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We fall sway to fake news because it grabs our attention through outlandish claims, suggests false memories and contains appeals to our emotions that align with our politics.
Keir Starmer was recently made to look stupid in a video edited by the Conservative party.
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It’s a slippery slope from satire to dangerous deepfakes.
Ukrainians don’t agree on how their president should have handled Trump’s request.
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Trump’s attempt to co-opt Ukraine’s precarious position with Russia worsens existing divides inside Ukraine and weakens US influence abroad.
The Berlin Wall symbolised the Cold War divide between the capitalist West and communist Soviet Union.
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Marking the end of the Cold War offers the chance to reflect on the changes and continuities in African politics and international relations since 1989.
Boris Johnson recording a television interview before a leadership hustings event in July 2019.
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Research suggests that people still depend on the mainstream media for their news. It’s more important than ever that journalists earn that trust.
Designating news articles as fake news serves to discredit mainstream news organizations and develop echo chambers.
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Studying Twitter in advance of the federal election has shown that the hashtag #FakeNews is being used to discredit Canadian mainstream media and create echo chambers.
Can you tell one from the other?
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The world faces a collision between facts and alternative facts – so how do experts get their message heard over the din of fake news?
On Facebook, we like what other people have already liked before us.
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Research shows that hiding the popularity of posts can change what people consume, and even improve the overall quality of content.