The world’s most popular artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are infected with Russian disinformation, according to a new study. More than 30% responses are infected with false claims and propaganda.
www.axios.com/2025/03/06/exclusive-russian-disinfo-floods-ai-chatbots-study-finds
While Facebook does away with automated fact-checking systems that reduce the spread of mis/disinformation, Meta is revamping a program that pays 💰bonuses to creators for viral content, “potentially pouring accelerant on the kind of false posts it once policed.”
www.propublica.org/article/face...
LA's wildfires prompted a rash of fake images. Here's why
www.npr.org/2025/01/16/n...
Trump has vowed to crack down on universities involved in misinformation research, or what he dubs the "censorship cartel" - e.g. by curbing funds to those that have "flagged content for removal”, or legal threats
“I'm pretty fucking scared," one professor tells me.
www.ft.com/content/bfb4...
“[T]he virality of political content on social media (including misinformation) is driven by superficial processing of headlines and blurbs rather than systematic processing of core content, which has design implications for promoting deliberate discourse in the online public sphere.”
Slightly more news influencers explicitly identify as Republican, conservative or pro-Trump (27%) than Democratic, liberal or pro-Harris (21%).
A majority of news influencers are men (63%).
Most (77%) have no affiliation or background with a news organization.
www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2...
What I'm reading as we contemplate how to teach #journalism going forward.
www.cnn.com/2024/11/08/m...
