With the rapid spread of mis/disinformation, coordinated disinformation campaigns and eroding credibility in once trusted institutions, how do organisations, communities and groups navigate the information landscape #disinformation #misinformation #tech #ai #aiforgood #techethics
What exactly is 'Narrative intelligence'?
#misinformation #disinformation #aiinpeacebuilding #techethics #peacetech #ai #innovation #tech
Accurate #misinformation maps are tricky . At TechEthics, our tools uses explainable pipelines to build transparency. Check out our latest insights exploring misinformation analysis on social media
#misinformation #disinformation #techethics #ai #digitalmarketing #tech
"Republicans are realizing just how demanding the MAHA vote can be. Moms Across America leader Zen Honeycutt warned that Republicans are facing their biggest setback yet with the MAHA movement, after Trump signed an executive order to support production of glyphosate, a herbicide the World Health Organization has linked to cancer."
#PublicHealth #vaccines #immunizations #food #diet #nutrition #chemicals #toxins #ChildrensHealth #misinformation #HHS #elections #USpol
“The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.” – Alberto Brandolini, 2013
Conspiratorial Claims and Institutional Distrust in Canada’s Online Ecosystem — Media Ecosystem Observatory https://meo.ca/work/conspiratorial-claims-and-institutional-distrust-in-canadas-online-ecosystem
This was both interesting and discouraging to read. 100 "influencers shared 87% of the conspiratorial claims we identified and attracted 89% of views and 87% of likes."
💁🏻♀️ ICYMI: 🕵️♂️📰 Trying to piece together what to believe can feel impossible, but we can still find reliable, trustworthy #answers as long as we know how to look for them.
Hank Green and Sage Magee explain the SIFT method, a four-step tool to help you investigate sources and trace claims back to their origins to find the whole #truth.
👉 Learn more: https://zurl.co/182Du
#disinformation #diy #howto #information #literacy #media #microplastics #misinformation #news #plastic #research #science #journalism #psychology #mentalhealth #propaganda #education #tksst #video
Using #science to understand and fight #health #misinformation & #MAHA #disinformation!!!
https://www.apa.org/pubs/reports/health-misinformation
Fake #AI Content About the #IranWar Is All Over X
X’s #Grok is failing to accurately verify #video footage from the #Iran conflict and is sharing its own AI-generated images about the #war.
#misinformation #disinformation
https://www.wired.com/story/fake-ai-content-about-the-iran-war-is-all-over-x/
🕵️♂️📰 Trying to piece together what to believe can feel impossible, but we can still find reliable, trustworthy #answers as long as we know how to look for them.
Hank Green and Sage Magee explain the SIFT method, a four-step tool to help you investigate sources and trace claims back to their origins to find the whole #truth.
#disinformation #diy #howto #information #literacy #media #microplastics #misinformation #news #plastic #research #science #journalism #psychology #mentalhealth #propaganda #education #tksst #video
As they say, don't believe everything you see on the internet! #Tigard Public Library has created this excellent guide on how to evaluate information (PDF):
https://www.tigard-or.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/4080/638434317357100000
#medialiteracy #misinformation #disinformation #rumors #library
Its never been easier to push a given narrative, shift a perspective or reinforce a given belief. Our new tool attempts to expose the connections within this web, making it clear. #misinformation #disinformation #veritas #techethics #aiethics #ai #media #narratives #news
Nature: Hey ChatGPT, write me a fictional paper: these LLMs are willing to commit academic fraud. “Still, some LLMs performed better than others in the experiment, in which the models were given prompts to simulate users asking for help with issues ranging from genuine curiosity to blatant academic fraud. The most resistant to committing fraud, when asked repeatedly, were all versions of […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/09/hey-chatgpt-write-me-a-fictional-paper-these-llms-are-willing-to-commit-academic-fraud-nature/If you think or know any man who thinks that women’s lower belly pooch is “their uterus showing and a gift from God” it’s not. It’s just fat. Normal, estrogen-driven fat distribution. Wrapping bullshit anatomy in religion to make insecure women feel grateful instead of informed is not body positivity. It’s disgusting manipulation
#bodyPositivity #feminism #anatomy #mansplaining #misinformation
Teamwork makes the dream work! Our #Veritas dashboard helps teams collaborate and get to the heart of the #misinformation. Detailed case rooms allow you to wrangle any issue. Register your interest here: https://techethics.co.uk/solutions/veritas
#techethics #disinformation #teamwork #ai
An opinion poll by Japan's Foreign Ministry showed Friday that 68.0% of respondents feel that disinformation about international affairs is spreading online. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/03/07/japan/japan-disinformation-online-spread/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #japanchinarelations #misinformation #fakenews #internet #socialmedia
What I’ve been reading (, watching, and listening to) this week ending 1 March 2026 https://jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-been-reading-watching-and-listening-to-this-week-ending-1-march-2026-07be1022d9b2 #cybersecurity #strategy #misinformation #ai #management
Scientists’ engagement on social media to share science and fight misinformation is crucial. Gen Z & α often get their info there, making this work essential despite the effort.
🔗 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00472-5
#ScienceCommunication #SocialMedia #Misinformation #PublicEngagement #STEM
During #Japan's recent election campaign, 80% of false or misleading information voters encountered was mistakenly believed to be true.
Sources of false or misleading information:
• TV: 32.7%
• news sites & apps: 22.7%
• social media posts (excluding parties & candidates): 20%
#Iranian #TV and #SocialMedia Project Defiant and Distorted View of the #War
State media and online #propagandists are striking a confident posture, despite heavy losses. Some of the content was generated by artificial intelligence.
#misinformation #ai #artificialintelligence #propaganda #disinformation #iran #Trump #maga
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/business/media/iran-state-tv-social-media-war-ai.html
It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge. Mal-information is more hopeless than non-information; for error is always more busy than ignorance. Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase. Ignorance is contented to stand still with her back to the truth; but error is more presumptuous, and proceeds in the same direction. Ignorance has no light, but error follows a false one. The consequence is, that error, when she retraces her footsteps, has further to go, before she can arrive at the truth, than ignorance.
Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 1, § 1 (1820)
More about this quote: wist.info/colton-charles-caleb…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cccolton #changeofmind #correction #disinformation #error #ignorance #misinformation #truth #unlearning
Mashable: We all love viral videos of Punch the monkey. A lot of them are AI. . “As Punch’s beloved Ikea plushie became his emotional support animal, he became the world’s emotional support animal. And, for now, the story seems to have a happy ending. As Punch grows up, the macaques at the Ichikawa City Zoo in Japan are accepting him as one of their own. Every day, more videos of Punch the […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/05/mashable-we-all-love-viral-videos-of-punch-the-monkey-a-lot-of-them-are-ai/Posting scandalous photos without indicating their provenance even when asked earns a block from me, and should from you as well.
A deepfake that confirms your priors is still a deepfake. It does more harm than good even if the situation depicted has "truthiness".
The bad guys circulate fakes so that _real_ evidence, when it becomes public, will also be dismissed as fake.
Stop sharing unverified stuff or following people who do.
#misinformation #disinformation #propaganda #deepfakes
The #paradox of #trust in #health care in the age of #SocialMedia
Health systems worldwide face two fundamental and connected challenges: pervasive #misinformation and #disinformation and eroding public trust. This erosion reveals a paradox at the heart of contemporary science–society relations: the more science succeeds in solving complex problems through rigour and institutional coordination, the more it alienates a public that values immediacy, authenticity, emotional resonance, and personal connection. Consequently, those most committed to scientific #rigour—scientists, health-care institutions, professional societies, and public health agencies—are increasingly distrusted, whereas those least #accountable—untrained influencers, unqualified individuals with financial motives or political agendas, and artificial intelligence bots—are deemed credible. This so-called trust paradox is amplified by #engagement-driven social media environments that reward disinformation, immediacy, group identity, and authenticity over factual truth. The consequences are harmful health outcomes and misguided policy decisions. Addressing this paradox requires not only technical accuracy but also co-production from the outset, overarching horizontal communication, infrastructures for transparency and emotional resonance, and regulatory reforms for algorithms and digital environments.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)02556-5/fulltext
"Perhaps you've heard that AI chatbots make things up sometimes. That's a problem. But there's a new issue few people know about, one that could have serious consequences for your ability to find accurate information and even your safety. A growing number of people have figured out a trick to make AI tools tell you almost whatever they want. It's so easy a child could do it.
As you read this, this ploy is manipulating what the world's leading AIs say about topics as serious as health and personal finances. The biased information could mean people make bad decisions on just about anything – voting, which plumber you should hire, medical questions, you name it.
To demonstrate it, I pulled the dumbest stunt of my career to prove (I hope) a much more serious point: I made ChatGPT, Google's AI search tools and Gemini tell users I'm really, really good at eating hot dogs. Below, I'll explain how I did it, and with any luck, the tech giants will address this problem before someone gets hurt.
It turns out changing the answers AI tools give other people can be as easy as writing a single, well-crafted blog post almost anywhere online."
#AI #GenerativeAI #AITraining #Disinformation #Misinformation
