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Meta, the parent of Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp, today announced a major overhaul in how it’s handling content moderation on its site, taking off some of the guardrails that it had put in place over the last several years in response to criticism that it had helped to spread political and health misinformation. In a…
Ahead of the polls closing on Tuesday, most of the major AI chatbots wouldn’t answer questions about U.S. presidential election results. But Grok, the chatbot built into X (formerly Twitter), was willing to respond — and often with mistakes. When asked by TechCrunch on Tuesday evening on the East Coast who won the U.S. presidential…
A majority of Americans said artificial intelligence (AI) will increase the spread of misinformation during the 2024 presidential election, according to a poll released Friday. The concerns shared by surveyed Americans in the AP-NORC and University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy poll follows the rapid rise of generative AI tools over the…
Misinformation and disinformation retain the basic characteristics of speech. Unless they fall into one of very few exceptions, they are protected from censorship under the First Amendment. Consistent with those very limited exceptions, any effort by the government to prevent the dissemination of ideas or opinions, even if they are based on untruths, is unconstitutional….
With the rampant spread of fake news and conspiracy theories, Canadian students would benefit from extra lessons in BS detection. (Illustration by Pete Ryan) The Canadian wildfires were caused by space lasers? The U.S. government is run by lizard people? The COVID vaccines contain microchips? Nope, nope and nope. That all may seem obvious, but…
A House hearing Thursday featuring Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. brought the complicated debate about balancing free speech with fighting misinformation to center stage. Some of the debate played out in real time among members of Congress and the hearing witness. Democrats condemn RFK Jr. over ‘reprehensible’ COVID-19 remarks The House Judiciary Select…
“#Misinformation is an infection that politicians have left to fester” Editorial: The info wars are on, and our political leaders need to step up and fight back At the height of our recent federal election campaign, someone threw gravel at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau when he was campaigning in London, Ont. Police later charged the…
“#Misinformation from the U.S. is the next virus—and it’s spreading fast” On Sept. 22, Shanon Sheppard of Halifax posted a video on Facebook to share terrible news with the world. Sheppard, who comes across like a normal, worried mom in the video, says she hopes she can keep from crying. After she composes herself, she…
“#Google profits from spreading fake news — here’s how” Search engines are one of society’s primary gateways to information and people, but they are also conduits for misinformation. Similar to problematic social media algorithms, search engines learn to serve you what you and others have clicked on before. Because people are drawn to the sensational,…
“#4 ways to respond to vaccine skeptics on social media” For most of the 20th century, more than 60,000 people died in the US from polio, diphtheria, and small pox each year. In 2016, the American death toll from these diseases was zero. Around the globe, two to three million deaths from these diseases and…