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AI + Information Integrity Views = my own
"For us, AI is always going to have either a human in the loop or a rigorously validated and monitored content flow, where our editorial team has looked at that and said with a high degree of confidence, 'We know that works'".
www.theverge.com/decoder-podc...
✔️ + ⚖️ = 😇
Accuracy + Fairness = Credibility
A great read on what "fact-checking" stands for...⤵️
critikid.com/fact-checking
Pope Francis was an unlikely chronicler of the world’s reckoning with false information online.
The future of information integrity relies on ordinary people seeking truth and providing corrective information.
www.politifact.com/article/2025...
What does the #AI strategy at one of the world's largest news orgs look like? What constitutes effective AI #governance that nurtures instructive ethical frameworks?
The Head of AI at Reuters on how advanced tech is transforming the media landscape⚡
review.brunswickgroup.com/article/reut...
🎮 New research is backing up what gamers have thought for years — video games can be an antidote to stress and anxiety. Reuters created our own simulation of the growing subgenre dubbed ‘cozy games.’ Go on, give it a try ➡️ reut.rs/4aUtNDz 1/6
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As firefighters battled the historic #LosAngeles fires in Jan 2025, a photo of 3 women in the LAFD was misrepresented as the entire department leadership, claiming “DEI hires” were to blame for uncontained wildfires. 👩🚒
www.reuters.com/fact-check/p...
Anti-vax messages are incredibly profitable to platforms. This article looks at profits, disseminators, and the potential health, financial, and trust costs that audiences may endure. From the book series Risk, Systems, and Decisions www.springer.com/series/13439
#Misinformation #BehaviouralScience
“I expect 2025, given political uncertainty in many countries and the delegation of government decision rights to unelected tech and media leaders, to be a year of profound information-polluting chaos as parties maneuver for control over global centers of gravity: …
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I am not much for New Year's resolutions, but I will say this:
2025 is when the counter-offensive for an evidence-based worldview begins.
Good luck to all of you.
"The alarm about AI might be comforting because it positions concerns about the information environment as a discrete problem with a discrete solution. But fixes to the information environment depend on structural and institutional changes rather than on curbing AI-generated content."
28.12.2024 03:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
This video continues to spread in posts falsely claiming it shows a drone downed in New Jersey.
The aircraft in the clip is a small plane that experienced engine failure and crashed the night of December 12 along Interstate 684 in Greenwich, Connecticut.
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
"Information integrity underlines the idea that fact-checking is actually an essential part of exercising free speech." ✅
www.poynter.org/ifcn/2024/th...
#freespeech #misinformation #factchecking
Zhuravel, 20, was already serving three and a half years for burning a copy of the Koran in southwestern Russia when he was convicted of new offences linked to contact with Ukrainian intelligence.
www.reuters.com/fact-check/r...
Why people like dictators:
“In ambiguous situations which appear frightening, people orient themselves
towards individuals who seem to provide security…to solve their problems and reduce their feelings of anxiety and insecurity.”
Detlef Oesterreich
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
There are lessons from the social media age that AI search firms can adopt to safeguard the flow of reliable news and information, writes Diane Chang. www.techpolicy.press/search-is-th...
27.11.2024 16:26 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Fact check: A clip of Rachel Maddow breaking down on MSNBC does NOT show her reaction to a meme Elon Musk posted on Sunday. It's from 2018 and shows her emotional response to an AP story about babies and toddlers taken from their parents and sent to “tender age” shelters at the southern border.
25.11.2024 16:43 — 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Smallpox has been eradicated worldwide since 1980 and is not held in check by vaccines, contrary to posts suggesting the deadly virus may circulate again if vaccines become optional.
www.reuters.com/fact-check/s...
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This image is spreading in English and Spanish posts attacking abortion rights advocates, but it is altered. The sign in the original photo carries a different message.
I tracked down the photographer, who said she was sad to see her work — and the woman and girl's faces — misused "to spread lies."
❌ This fake Elon Musk tweet has popped up on Bluesky, depicting a post saying he managed to “hack into nearly every swing-state in electronic ballot tabulator.”
It’s a fake screenshot.
Calling people who correct false information a censorship regime is of course, a great example of Doublespeak. The whole foundation of scientific knowledge is based on the search for truth, and correcting for falsehoods.
www.ft.com/content/bfb4...
"Communications Minister Michelle Rowland said the bill would have "ushered in an unprecedented level of transparency, holding big tech to account for their systems and processes to prevent and minimise the spread of harmful misinformation and disinformation online.""
#Misinformation #Socialmedia
Seeing disinformation as a commodity helps better address the underlying motivations of its producers, distributors, and consumers, writes Article 19’s Etienne Koeppel.
21.11.2024 14:01 — 👍 39 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 2Bluesky's firehose is a treasure trove of public data for researchers and developers, and it's completely free. Check out our developer docs: docs.bsky.app
23.11.2024 05:54 — 👍 7942 🔁 1533 💬 321 📌 169
In the 2024 election, both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris won in states requiring voter ID and in other states without such requirements 🗳️
#factcheck #USElection #Trump #Harris #Election2024
Read the facts behind an online narrative that suggests otherwise ⤵️
www.reuters.com/fact-check/k...
