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Major social media platforms have policies that prohibit spreading election falsehoods. But enforcement varies and is hard to track.

Aiming to bring more transparency to ads related to politics in India ahead of the general elections, Facebook on Thursday launched a tool that will allow its users to know the people behind

Moldovan journalists from national, regional and local media have learned new skills in detecting and countering fake news from experts from Romania and Georgia in a series of specialist workshops. IWPR’s local partner in Moldova, the Association of Independent Press (API), held two seminars in May and June 2022 as part of a project supporting Moldovan media’s resilience to disinformation following Russia’s invasion of neighbouring Ukraine.

Fossil fuel firms are misleading the public about their moves to cut greenhouse gases and curb climate change — and social media are hosting ads that perpetuate this “greenwashing,” researchers say. <strong>TALKING THE TALK</strong> Many companies have vowed to reach the “net zero” level of greenhouse gas emissions needed to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius under the Paris climate accords, the threshold established by scientists for avoiding the worst impacts. At the same time, research shows, they are advertising and lobbying for more drilling and burning of...