Chinese regulator targets AI-generated fake news
China's Internet regulator State Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) is bracing for AI-generated fake news. This writes The Register.
The CAC recently managed to take 107,000 news accounts and fake presenters offline, it indicates in its press release written in Chinese. It also removed 835... Read more
Court of Justice: ‘Google must remove misinformation from search results’
The European Union's highest court ruled that Google must remove information from search results if users prove the information incorrect.
The Court of Justice disclosed the ruling in a statement. Google, Bing and other search engines have to comply with search result removal requests if the ap... Read more
EU wants to cut off profits from digital ads around disinformation
European Union officials revealed plans aimed at expanding the code of practice for online disinformation, to prevent digital ad companies from profiting off false information.
The officials announced that they were beefing up the three-year-old voluntary code to make it better at fighting misin... Read more
CEOs from big tech companies to testify about misinformation
CEOs Sundar Pichai, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jack Dorsey will have to answer to Congress about the explosion of misinformation on their platform. They will also be required to state how they plan to address the problem.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee announced the hearing with Facebook, Twi... Read more
EU tells Big Tech to continue fake news monitoring, COVID-19 in focus
The European Commission has told Google, Twitter, Facebook, and Microsoft, to continue delivering monthly reports on efforts undertaken to tackle fake news, especially on the pandemic, for six more months.
Social media and other extensive online platforms have come under fire in recent times for... Read more
Twitter acquires startup Fabula AI to fight fake news
Twitter has announced that it will take over Fabula AI, hoping to be able to fight better with fake news. Fabula AI is a startup from London with a deep learning platform that detects disinformation on online platforms.
However, Fabula AI has not yet had time to make its platform generally availabl... Read more
WhatsApp removes 2 million fake news accounts per month
Fake news is and remains a major problem. Tackling this is not always easy and often requires substantial investments. This also applies to various tech companies such as Facebook. It turns out that two million WhatsApp accounts are deleted every month, in violation of fake news.
WhatsApp reports th... Read more
“It only takes bots seconds to spread disinformation.
According to new research by Indiana University, social media bumps only take a few seconds to spread disinformation, says Ars Technica. The researchers studied tweets for this purpose shortly after the American presidential elections of 2016.
Shortly after those elections, President Donald Trump sa... Read more
Firefox election toolkit protects users from fake news
Mozilla has announced an "election bundle". With this bundle, users can protect themselves against misinformation and misleading advertisements in the run-up to the American elections in Novenber. That's what Venturebeat reports.
On Monday, Firefox launches a special version of its election browser,... Read more
CFO Goldman Sachs: message about crypto currency yesterday is fake news
The value of cryptic currency is very much dependent on the behaviour of the market. A small decision by an authority can have a major impact. Yesterday, for example, we heard that the Goldman Sachs bank would have decided not to make a crypto exchange anyway. As a result, the market crashed and man... Read more