Travis Coan News Today

There has been a long-running effort to force social media outlets to censor messages that those in power don’t like.  Operating under the false flag of countering hate, the misnamed not-for-profit (in the UK and UK) Center for Countering Digital Hate has run many successful operations to de-platform political and social  opponents of its founder:…

The year 2021 was a rather cranky one for our team! For one, quite some research was cranked out - i.e. published - by team members and for another, a particular Cranky Uncle started to make the rounds throughout the year.  As in previous recaps, this one is divided into several sections:

Videos incorporating climate denial assertions had over 325 million views in total, according to a new study. Read more here.

“A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on.” This quote appears in many forms. In some variants, the quote involves footwear. In other cases, the truth is struggling to get its pants on.

Climate myths never seem to die, rearing up to be debunked over and over. Consequently, misinformation researchers speak wistfully of the “holy grail of fact-checking’ – automatically detecting and debunking the fake news in one fell swoop. Machine learning offers the potential of both speed and scale to achieve this. Read more at Monash Lens.