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There are multiple efforts under way in the US to pass laws that require social media sites to take down "medical...
A study finds that difficulty in verifying audiovisual content and identifying foreign languages make it hard to track false information on the platform.
A look back at the most viewed and shared Factcheck stories from The Associated Press.
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.
Last week I wrote a bit about the ridiculous and misguided backlash against Facebook over the election results. The basis of the claim...