Misinformation & disinformation articles
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Fact checkers are fighting election disinformation campaigns targeting Latinos
As the November election nears, journalists work to counter false and misleading information aimed at Spanish-speaking voters. By Timothy Pratt, Capital and Main When Rafael Olavarría was out of the U.S. for personal reasons recently, he found himself up early on a Friday doing something new in his job at the two-year-old, Spanish-language fact-checking project Factchequeado. For the first time, Olavarría was not only correcting a viral falsehood posted on X (formerly Twitter) that he had...
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The spread of misinformation varies by topic and by country in Europe, study finds
The eventual prevalence of a piece of misinformation may depend on its topic and the country in which it spreads, with notable differences between the UK, Germany, France and Italy, according to a study published May 8 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Fabiana Zollo from the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy, and colleagues. This finding suggests that policies to combat misinformation and polarization may need to be context-specific in order to be effective, the authors say.
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Democracy is in peril because ‘both sides’ journalists let MAGA spread disinformation
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