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  • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
    Artificial intelligence
    Google will require election ads to ‘prominently disclose’ AI content

    Move comes a week before meeting between US tech bosses and politicians in Washington

    Hand holding a mobile phone with google on it
  • Saturday, 19 August, 2023
    Europe Express
    Europe fights disinformation Premium content

    Public awareness of fake news is rising but eradicating it completely may be an unrealistic goal

    Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen
  • Friday, 11 August, 2023
    You can’t blow a bubble with bullshit

    Squeezing imaginary shorts, wearing hypothetical losses

  • Thursday, 10 August, 2023
    Elisabeth Braw
    How tolerance makes nations vulnerable

    The disinformation surrounding Koran burnings in Sweden bear out philosopher Karl Popper’s warnings

    A woman protester wearing sunglasses and a hijab holds a Koran
  • Saturday, 5 August, 2023
    Europe Express
    How effective is Russian propaganda? Premium content

    At home and abroad, the Kremlin’s control of information is less tight than it would like

    Russians wave flags with the letter ‘Z’, which has become a symbol of support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, at a rally in March 2022 marking the eighth anniversary of Moscow’s annexation of Crimea
  • Friday, 30 June, 2023
    Undercover EconomistTim Harford
    The 2024 elections will come under attack. We should get ready

    The next polls in western democracies will be a prime opportunity for bad actors

  • Thursday, 15 June, 2023
    News in-depthArtificial intelligence
    Computer-driven trading firms fret over risks AI poses to their profits

    Executives fear complex algorithms may not be able to differentiate fake data from genuine information

    The Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square
  • Thursday, 8 June, 2023
    Gillian Tett
    Investors must beware deepfake market manipulation

    The proliferation of AI tools will exacerbate issues with misinformation

    Efi Chalikopoulou of a man trying to scale a climbing wall, using triangular warning signs as hand and foot holds
  • Monday, 15 May, 2023
    Anika Collier Navaroli
    Disinformation dangers lurk in the EU’s media freedom act

    Allowing organisations to self-categorise as ‘media’ gives easy legitimacy to deepfakes and bad actors

    Donald Trump supporters during the storming of the US Capitol in 2021
  • Tuesday, 2 May, 2023
    Social Media
    Google draws backlash from Brazil with lobbying against ‘fake news’ bill

    Tech giant is among the fiercest opponent to legislation being pushed by Lula administration

    The Google logo at a Google Store in New York City
  • Sunday, 30 April, 2023
    Brazilian politics
    Brazil’s lawmakers to vote on ‘fake news’ bill opposed by tech groups

    Critics decry measures as draconian and open to abuse by special interests

    Protesters outside Brazil’s Congress
  • Friday, 21 April, 2023
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Fox News and the marketing of lies

    Lessons from Dominion’s defamation suit should be learnt beyond America

    Lawyers for Dominion leave court in Wilmington. The case serves as a warning of the perils of partisan journalism tipping over into propaganda
  • Friday, 17 March, 2023
    Undercover EconomistTim Harford
    Why children can be better at spotting misinformation

    They don’t have the reflexive cynicism of many adults, but that’s a strength, not a weakness

  • Friday, 17 March, 2023
    Venezuela
    Deepfake ‘news’ videos ramp up misinformation in Venezuela

    UK tech company developed software used in fake news videos promoted by authoritarian government

    Montage of Nicolás Maduro and the ‘House of News’ YouTube channel
  • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
    Jemima Kelly
    You don’t restore trust in the media by abandoning objectivity

    In the current political climate we need to double down on fundamental journalistic principles, not surrender them

    Ben Hickey illustration of a fountain pen holding the scales of justice
  • Friday, 3 March, 2023
    Healthcare
    US health and science bodies unite to fight misinformation ‘infodemic’

    Fifty organisations form coalition to counter dangerous falsehoods and rebuild trust in science

    An anti-mask and anti-vaccine rally in New Hampshire, US
  • Wednesday, 22 February, 2023
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Foolproof — how misinformation works, and how to counter it

    Social psychologist Sander van der Linden offers an authoritative guide to tackling fake news and false claims

    A woman lies in bed in the dark, holding a mobile phone whose illuminated screen casts a light around her
  • Friday, 10 February, 2023
    Undercover EconomistTim Harford
    Why chatbots are bound to spout bullshit

    Some of what they say is true, but only as a byproduct of learning to seem believable

    A robotic hand crossing its fingers
  • Monday, 2 January, 2023
    Stephen Bush
    There is no such thing as a ‘marketplace of ideas’

    This unhelpful analogy disguises what’s really valuable about free speech

    A hand holding a mallet is poised to whack the heads of various people in a box of holes
  • Monday, 7 November, 2022
    X Corp
    Cyber experts warn of Twitter misinformation risk on eve of US election

    New owner Elon Musk has drawn fire for planning to loosen moderation at social media site

    The Twitter logo and building
  • Sunday, 16 October, 2022
    David Rand
    Getting the facts straight on online misinformation

    Social media companies are exploring radical solutions to moderation, writes an academic researching the options

  • Friday, 15 July, 2022
    Stephanie Shirley
    A deepening digital divide requires us all to challenge Big Tech

    The protean nature of the internet makes agreeing global rules for our engagement ever harder

    A montage of a VDU screen, a mobile phone, a 100-dollar bill, Mark Zuckerberg’s face and planet Earth seen from space
  • Monday, 13 June, 2022
    EU tech regulation
    Big Tech makes concessions on EU’s new anti-disinformation code

    Facebook, Twitter and TikTok set to agree to provide country-by-country data on efforts to curb fake news

    Mobile phone users alongside Twitter and Facebook logos
  • Tuesday, 7 June, 2022
    News in-depthBrazilian politics
    Social media platforms crack down on fake news ahead of Brazil election

    Disinformation is a potent political weapon in Latin America’s biggest country

    Person using a smartphone in Brazil
  • Friday, 20 May, 2022
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Authenticity by Alice Sherwood — the fight against fakery

    An enjoyable investigation into imitation, imposture and the impossible search for our ‘real selves’

    A ‘fake news’ float featuring images of Boris Johnson and Donald Trump
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