Earlier this year, a remarkable new fossil specimen was unearthed in the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of China by area fossil hunters. It was put forward as possibly a huge ancient spider species, as yet unknown to science. The locals sold the fossil to scientists at the Dalian Natural History Museum in Liaoning, China, who published ...
The presidential election in Taiwan is scheduled to be held next month. And China is furiously trying to manipulate it through disinformation so that the pro-Beijing camp can win and lay the foundation for the “One China” plan, where Taiwan reunites with the mainland under communist rule. However, the Taiwanese government has taken measures to ...
Amid rising concerns about low public trust in mainstream news media institutions, a Rutgers study found that real-life and online social media interactions can strongly influence a person’s trust in newspapers, TV, and online journalism — but when it comes to online social media interactions, cynical views are the most influential. The study, published in ...
Singapore has proposed a fake news bill that, if passed, could severely curtail free speech in the region. People with opinions that differ from the government can be monitored, arrested, and convicted on security grounds, thereby limiting political activism. Fake news bill The proposed law was introduced in the parliament on April 1 and seeks to ...
A small percentage of Americans, less than 9 percent, shared links to so-called “fake news” sites on Facebook during the 2016 presidential election campaign, but this behavior was disproportionately common among people over the age of 65, finds a new analysis by researchers at New York University’s Social Media and Political Participation (SMaPP) Lab and ...
With India’s general elections coming up next year, social media companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Google have joined hands with the country’s Election Commission (EC) to persist against the spread of fake news. From what we’ve been observing during the past two years, the question remains whether these corporate giants can be trusted with this ...
In February, the Justice Department charged 13 Russians with stealing U.S. citizens’ identities and spreading “fake news” with the intent to subvert the last U.S. presidential election. The case is still unfolding and may do so for years. In the meantime, UCR researchers have built a tech-based solution to the dissemination of malicious misinformation. UCR’s Multi-Aspect ...
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