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Montreal group to launch campaign to help young voters identify fake news in election

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Montreal-based charitable organization Apathy is Boring is planning to launch a campaign that will help young voters identify fake news during election time. The group — alongside roughly 400 other organizations and individuals — aims to offer a media literacy campaign that that teaches youth how to be critical of what they see online. The […]

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Fake News Is So Yesterday: What Tech Giants are Doing to Combat Alternative Facts

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Fake News Is So Yesterday: What Tech Giants are Doing to Combat Alternative Facts Welcome to the world of “alternative facts,” or as some might say, “fake news.” It is a baffling culture of claims and counterclaims, where what was once considered urban legends, now spread with frightening speed on media platforms that spark angry

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Democrats Created Fake Russian Twitter Bots to Influence Election

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The New York Times reported that Democrats created fake Russian Twitter bots in a disinformation campaign, also known as fake news, in order to influence voters to influence the Senate election in Alabama. The campaign was reportedly funded by liberal billionaire Reid Hoffman and included the creation of more than a thousand Russian-language accounts that

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Regulation of Google and Facebook Will Impair Their Futures

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Former Facebook Director Donald Graham says that regulation of Google and Facebook will slow them down dramatically and probably impair their futures significantly. He said that the idea that companies like Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook are permanent just isn’t so. However, Graham believes strongly that Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg are the two people

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Facebook is a Defective Product and Should be Held Liable

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Should social media companies be held liable for creating products that make people hate each other? Harvard Law School Distinguished Fellow Vivek Wadhwa says yes they should. Wadhwa says that tech companies should be held liable for creating defective products and he specifically names WhatsApp and Facebook as defective. Harvard Law School Distinguished Fellow Vivek Wadhwa

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Conservatives See Facebook War Room As War on Them

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Facebook has created a War Room ahead of the midterm election that is filled with data scientists and specialists trying to stop the spread of what it considers fake news. However, conservatives on YouTube see this as really an attempt to stop the spread of conservative thought. “Calling it the “Department of Censorship” would have

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Why the Real Fake News is Being Driven by Social Media

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“There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.” ~ William James. When you want to believe something is true, often you look for the validation of numbers to make the case for your argument. After all, the more someone says something, and the more people add their voice

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Facebook’s Takes Steps to Remove Posts That Incite Violence

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A recent Congressional hearing revealed that Facebook’s policies regarding fake news and posts that encourage violence need to be revamped. Now the social media giant is finally taking steps that will allow the platform to take down hateful and violence-inciting posts. Facebook said that it will utilize its image recognition technology to target posts and

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Twitter Gets Rid of 70 Million Fake Accounts in May and June, Cracks Down on Trolls

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Twitter has been aggressively suspending false accounts in a bid to curtail the spread of fake news. The company’s massive crackdown on trolls and bots have resulted in one million dubious accounts being deleted or suspended per day. According to the Washington Post, Twitter has been coming down hard on fake accounts, trolls, and bots

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Facebook’s Plan to Include Videos in Its News Feed Draws Suspicion from Publishers

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Facebook has been under pressure to combat the prevalence of fake news on its platform, which prompted the company to implement measures such as blocking ads from companies that shared unreliable content last year. But the social media giant is taking a step even further by making legit videos from trusted news outlets more accessible

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