misinformation
It’s not just the world of politics, science and health that are targeted by online misinformation. Often, sports and our other favourite pastimes can come under fire from dubious claims, too. This time, it’s the UEFA European Championship 2024. Here are a few examples. A picture appeared on social media supposedly showing a football fan dressed as Adolf Hitler in Germany during the first round of matches. It was shared widely both on Facebook and X, but the photo isn’t from this year’s Euros at all. Instead, it dates back to a Halloween party in October 2022 and was taken on the streets of Ma...
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Leading generative artificial intelligence (AI) models such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT are regurgitating Russian misinformation, according to news monitoring service NewsGuard. The study comes as concern mounts over AI spreading misinformation as users turn to chatbots for reliable information, especially during the year of global elections. While there has been concern about the falsehoods generated by AI, there has been little data on whether misinformation could be repeated and validated by chatbots. NewsGuard’s study found that by entering 57 prompts into 10 chatbots, they spread Russian disinfor...
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Pro-Russian actors are purposefully barraging journalists with fake news in an effort to spread verification resources thin and amplify the reach of disinformation, according to a new study. Dubbed “Operation Overload” by Finnish software and methodologies company Check First, which published the report, the ongoing scheme involves anonymous pro-Russian actors who contact journalists in a coordinated campaign to have them verify suspected fake news. The ploy relies on the simple principle that “all publicity is good publicity”. The verification requests usually target Ukraine, France and Germa...
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Europe’s most popular artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are now intentionally spreading election-related disinformation to its users, an updated study has found. Democracy Reporting International (DRI) examined how chatbots responded to questions related directly to the electoral process with Google Gemini, OpenAI’s ChatGPT4, ChatGPT4-o, and Microsoft’s Copilot. From May 22-24, researchers asked the chatbots five questions in 10 EU languages, including how a user would register to vote if they live abroad, what to do to send a vote by mail and when the results of the European Parliament el...
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Google’s new search feature, AI Overviews, is facing mounting backlash after users pointed out some factually inaccurate and misleading answers to queries. AI Overview, which was launched two weeks ago, shows a summary of answers to common questions on Google Search at the top of the page that it gets from various sources around the Internet. The goal of the new feature is to help users answer “more complex questions,” according to a Google blog post. Instead, it has produced false answers like telling a user to glue cheese to pizza if it gets unstuck, to eat rocks to help with your health, or...
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Researchers have developed a computer game to help students better spot fake news, according to a study. Their experiment involved 516 Swedish upper secondary school students from four different institutions. The game, called Bad News, was created through a collaboration between researchers from the University of Cambridge and video game studios. In Bad News, the user plays “the role of fake news-monger” to get people accustomed to manipulation techniques used to mislead an audience. The game breaks down six practices commonly levered in misinformation: impersonation, emotion, polarisation, co...
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Many have called 2024 the ‘year of elections’ - and for good reason: at least 64 countries are heading or have already headed to the polls this year. This includes the US - which will hold a presidential election in November - and more likely than not the UK - which is required to have a general election before the end of January 2025. The same goes for the European Union. Parties from across the political spectrum will be out in full force to claim as many seats as possible in the European Parliament election in June. With such important polls being held this year on the continent and beyond,...
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