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A false report claimed Steve Harvey's death, sparking widespread panic. The incident highlights the growing threat of AI-generated misinformation.

The Online Safety Act has become a law after years of campaigning to protect UK children and adults from cyberbullying and harassment including revenge porn and online trolls.

The row came as lawmakers in Brazil's lower house prepared to vote on the so-called "fake news bill"

The Children's Health Defense (CHD), which has been a critic of Covid vaccines, immediately accused Meta of stifling its free speech rights.

Russia has barred as many as 29 UK journalists, including journalists from the BBC, the Guardian, Times and the Independent, from entering the country.

Old tricks, new crises: how US misinformation spreads

The social media company had 229 million users who were served advertising in the first quarter.

The particular concern with TikTok is the age of its users: a third in the United States, for example, are 19 or younger.

TikTok told AFP that it has ramped up resources to detect and counter "emerging threats" and "harmful disinformation" on the platform.

Under US law, Facebook is largely protected from liability over content posted by its users.

Under the agreement AFP will also offer fact-checking training on several continents, details of which will be announced soon

The rest of his videos on the channel, where he has 3.5 million subscribers, will remain accessible.

Trump has been looking for ways to reclaim his internet megaphone, launching several lawsuits against the tech giants.

Facebook is looking for groups of users that do things like "brigading," or ganging up on other accounts, to flood them with comments or complaints.

Late last year, the network of fake accounts tried to fuel a false meme that the AstraZeneca vaccine against Covid-19 would turn people into chimpanzees

Inaccurate information about vaccines is especially dangerous at a time when uptake of the shots has slowed in the United States

Xinjiang authorities said mid-March that Sudworth was the target of a civil lawsuit for producing "fake news" about the region.

The project comes with Twitter and other social networks under fire for failing to stem manipulation and misinformation about elections, the Covid-19 pandemic and other issues.

The tool which will be used by the Oversight Board was curated by its members along with Facebook's engineers.

Healthcare professionals have been voicing their concerns regarding the upsurge of fake news amid the SARS-CoV-2 crisis.

Last month, Whatsapp made a move to stop misinformation after it imposed a limit to the number of people a user can forward a message to.

A report claiming that Trump had been asking about nuking hurricanes deemed as 'FAKE NEWS' on Trump's twitter.

The social networks are working to vet out abuse and fake news after complaints from users around the world.

The social networking giant keeps improving the health of its platforms.

Last month, the social network removed 652 pages, groups, and accounts linked to Russia and Iran.

An MIT report shows how false news spreads "faster and deeper" than real news items on Twitter.

Twitter beat Wall Street's cautious expectations with its first quarterly profit in history, but that isn't going to solve the company's broader problems any time soon.

New analysis of two letters, supposedly written by the infamous serial killer Jack the Ripper, suggests that they may have been penned by journalists.

Fake news has three distinct meanings, and only one of them is legitimate.

Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's chief operating officer, said that the social networking giant needs to do more to combat election interference, terrorist content and fake news.