Misinformation

In a conversation with Renee DiResta, the technical director, Stanford Internet Observatory.

Can Social Media Fix Its Misinformation Problem?

Dec 19, 2021

The data, which covers actions taken through June, was released Wednesday as part of Facebook’s quarterly community standards enforcement report.

Facebook says it deleted 20 mn posts with Covid-19 misinformation on Instagram

Aug 19, 2021

Unjected dating app has been targetted not just by Apple App Store but also Google Play store.

Apple bans Unjected dating app over misinformation even as Tinder, Match, Bumble fall in line

Aug 02, 2021
by HT Tech

TikTok was the top downloaded app in the first half of 2021. While on Apple’s App Store it was the most downloaded app, on the Play Store it was the second most downloaded app. The app saw the most downloads worldwide across both app stores, reaching about 384.6 million.

COVID vaccine misinformation being spread using TikTok Sounds, says think tank

Jul 13, 2021

Twitter is working on another tool to fight misinformation.

Twitter working on three new labels to warn users about misinformation

Jun 01, 2021
by HT Tech

Facebook will also block the spread of misinformation spread through pages by displaying a warning to new followers.

Facebook says it will punish individual accounts caught spreading misinformation

May 26, 2021
by HT Tech

Facebook starts prompting users to read news articles before sharing them

May 11, 2021
by HT Tech

Facebook bids goodbye to sarcasm, to label posts from satire pages

Apr 21, 2021
by HT Tech

A new report has tracked how content from a sample of misinformation-sharing websites was shared on Facebook by interpreting available Facebook data between May 2019 and May 2020 and the results are appalling.

On Facebook, health-misinformation 'superspreaders' rack up billions of views

Aug 19, 2020

Twitter said the @teamtrump account was prohibited from posting until the clip was removed.

Twitter blocks Trump campaign account over Covid-19 misinformation

Aug 06, 2020