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The News Scroll 22 December 2020   Last Updated at 4:52 pm | Source: PTI New study of almost 2,000 articles involving COVID-19 misinformation helps UN and others combat rumours and keep people safe Outlook December 22, 2020 16:52 IST New study of almost 2,000 articles involving COVID-19 misinformation helps UN and others combat rumours and keep people safe outlookindia.com 1970-01-01T05:30:00+0530 (Eds: Disclaimer: The following press release comes to you under an ar...

); How anti-vaccine misinformation took aim at the Toy Show - and what can be done about it Ireland is seeing a lot of misinformation about vaccines right now – and there’s no sign of it stopping. By Christine Bohan Monday 21 Dec 2020, 7:00 AM Dec 21st 2020, 7:00 AM 45,056 Views 104 Comments THE LATE LATE Toy Show hadn’t even ended its...

Twitter revamps account verification policy; what journalists, news organisations should know The six types of account that Twitter would start assigning blue badge to are Government, Companies, Brands and Non- Profit Organizations, News, Entertainment, Sports, Activists, Organizers, and other influential individuals. Heres are the rules and regulations of the verification policy. Video of Michelle Obama Praising Harvey Weinstein Resurfaces on Twitter Twitter shared its revamped verification po...

Twitter Public Verification Returns in January 2021: How You Can Get Your Account Verified FOLLOW US ON: Twitter India has announced the reopening of its public account verification process, which will commence from January 2021. In light of the renewed verification process, Twitter has highlighted its revamped policies that aim to better define which profiles qualify for the new verification setup. Along with that, the new policies also define scope for accounts that would be disqualified from...

Platforms and Publishers: The Great Pandemic Funding Push THE PANDEMIC FUNDING PUSH In 2019, a director at a journalism foundation who worked closely with Facebook and Google wrestled with a shift as those platforms expanded from journalism partners to patrons. “We can’t build a business around having these tech companies fund journalism,” the person said. “That’s what concerns me when some people say they should give us more money… . Is that their role, to be the subsidy for journa...

REVEALED: Facebook’s ‘Independent’ Fact-Checkers Are Political Partisans Based on the completely fictional narrative that the Russians installed Donald Trump in the White House in 2016, the Democratic Party machine, mainstream media and their Big Tech partners in Silicon Valley – colluded to devise a new network of censorship teams whose primary function has been to police the internet and suppress any information which might be damaging to the Democratic establishment or its transnati...

The painting’s creator Gaye Frances Willard reacts to the company’s decision on ‘Fox & Friends First.’ Margot Susca, an International Fact-Checking Network certifier and American University Professor, is not shy about her political beliefs and anti-Trump views, despite her work at a group committed to nonpartisan factual accuracy relied on by companies like Facebook. IFCN is a nonpartisan organization that grants signatory status to legally registered organizations set up for the p...

A professor Facebook has empowered to decide who can become a fact-checker is an open political leftist who has expressed animus against all Republican U.S. voters, according to recently uncovered documents exposing the official — and the process by which social media censors obtain their powers. According to Jack Houghton of Sky News, the platform’s fact-checking certifier Margot Susca retweeted the claim that racism is “embraced by nearly half of the country’s electorateâ...

Roundtable: How artificial intelligence is used to debunk fake news MILEN members and other experts met to discuss how media organizations have been using AI to fact-check misinformation. The event was co-hosted by MILEN, DW Akademie and the British University in Egypt. Speakers: Jochen Spangenberg is Deputy Head, Research and Cooperation Projects, at Germany’s international broadcaster Deutsche Welle. The unit operates at the intersection of journalism, IT, and media science.  Charlie Beck...

Fake covid-19 vaccines proliferating on dark web, says new research The UK has become the first country to approve the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19. (Photo: AFP)Premium 2 min read Share Via Read Full Story New Delhi: Fake covid vaccines are being sold on the dark web amid increasing reports of progress on vaccines worldwide, as per Checkpoint Research. The company found multiple cases where people claimed to sell vaccines in exchange for Bitcoins, making them harder to trace. "When ...