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Beware: US Election Disinformation Masked As 'Breaking News

The misuse of the term, typically deployed by media outlets to relay major news developments, is part of a persistent assault on reality across tech platforms that researchers say have relaxed their guardrails against false information in a crucial election year.

Latin Times

Beware: US Election Disinformation Masked As 'Breaking News'

"Breaking" news, screamed an online post by a conservative American influencer as he pushed disinformation about Kamala Harris, illustrating how journalism lingo has been co-opted as a tool to amplify election falsehoods.

International Business Times

How an X account pushed an unsubstantiated Tim Walz abuse allegation

The pro-Trump account claimed a former student of Walz had accused the VP candidate of sexual abuse.

Al Jazeera

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Musk boosts misinfo "superspreaders"

Four of the top five accounts Musk interacts with regularly amplify or create baseless conspiracy theories

Salon

Origin of Trump and JD Vance’s lies about Haitian immigrants eating pets revealed

Local Ohio woman posted the wild tale after hearing it from a neighbor, who heard it from a friend, who heard it from their daughter

The Independent UK

Pro-Russia 'News' Sites Spew Incendiary US Election Falsehoods

Pro-Kremlin sites masquerading as US "news" outlets have dished out unfounded claims that Democrats plotted to assassinate Donald Trump, a prime example of how phony AI-powered portals are spewing inflammatory falsehoods in a high-stakes election year.

International Business Times

What’s the final score? An overview of Russian disinformation about the 2024 Olympics

Our team has identified at least 38 fake news stories about the 2024 Paris Olympic Games that circulated online since the start of the year, most of them thought to have been manufactured by Russia – from made-up terrorist threats to fictional attacks on athletes to fake media reports. Even…

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So much for the Conflict Games: French security forces award themselves gold

Despite the muted political protests, railway sabotage, gender furore and Russian fake news, Paris’s Olympics have played out peacefully

The Guardian - UK

Russian disinformation slams Paris and amplifies Khelif claims to undermine the Olympics

Russia is using online disinformation to spread false information about the 2024 Olympics and portraying Paris as a crime-ridden cesspool

The Independent UK

Deluge of ‘pink slime’ websites threaten to drown out truth with fake news in US election

US sites pushing misinformation are proliferating, aiming to look like reliable sources as local newspapers close down

The Guardian - US

House Oversight Committee Launches Investigation Into News-Rating System

House Oversight Committee investigates NewsGuard's news-rating system for potential government influence and censorship concerns.

Top News

Faking an honest woman: Why Russia, China and Big Tech all use faux females to get clicks

When it comes to online scams and foreign disinformation, it pays to be female

The Independent UK

Phony 'News' Portals Surpass US Newspaper Sites, Researchers Say

Partisan websites masquerading as media outlets now outnumber American newspaper sites, a research group that tracks misinformation said Tuesday, highlighting a local news crisis in a year of high-stakes elections.

International Business Times

How China is using AI news anchors to deliver its propaganda

News avatars are proliferating on social media and experts say they will spread as the technology becomes more accessible

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‘Inceptionism’ and Balenciaga popes: a brief history of deepfakes

What began as a primitive tool has spawned hyperrealistic fakes with the potential to disrupt elections around the world

International Business Times

Proliferating 'News' Sites Spew AI-generated Fake Stories

A sensational story about the Israeli prime minister's "psychiatrist" exploded online, but it was AI-generated, originating on one of hundreds of websites researchers warn are churning out tech-enabled fiction masquerading as news.

International Business Times

Musk's X Feeds Monetization Of Wartime Misinformation

Influencers on X are monetizing misinformation about conflicts in the Middle East, leveraging the platform's contentious policies that researchers say prioritize engagement over accuracy.

The Independent UK

Viral hate and misinformation amid Israel-Hamas crisis renew fears of real-world violence

A six-year-old boy was fatally stabbed by a landlord fearing a ‘day of jihad.’ Watchdogs and civil rights groups are warning platforms and politicians against Islamophobic and racist rhetoric

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The Guardian - US

Israel-Hamas war poses early disinformation test for Meta’s Threads

Young app seems to have few viral falsehoods, perhaps because it’s still small and used differently from competitors

WEKU

How rumors and conspiracy theories got in the way of Maui's fire recovery

Some of the rumors and conspiracy theories were driven by the island's history, but others were pushed by social media influencers and foreign governments.

The Conversation

Donald Trump's truth: why liars might sometimes be considered honest – new research

According to fact checkers, Donald Trump made more than 30,000 false or misleading claims during his presidency. That’s around 20 a day. But, according to several opinion polls during his presidency, around 75% of Republican voters still considered Trump to be honest.

TechRadar

I asked ChatGPT the same question in Russian and Ukrainian – and the results worried me

ChatGPT is leaving non-English speakers behind – and that could impact us all.

The Guardian - US

Robot takeover? Not quite. Here’s what AI doomsday would look like

Experts say the fallout from powerful AI will be less a nuclear bomb and more a creeping deterioration of society

Fortune

Former Google safety boss sounds alarm over tech industry cuts and A.I. ‘hallucinations’

Arjun Narayan, now the safety chief at a news aggregation platform, thinks that A.I. output is largely a "black box" that can be hard to make sense of.

Fortune

News website Boring Report is using A.I. to change how people consume news—literally making it ‘boring’ by avoiding sensationalism

Amid growing distrust of the media, Boring Report uses A.I. to “aggregate” and “present” news in what it says is a more neutral way.

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