DARPA’s MediaFor project has come up with tools it says can spot AI-created fakes.
Tag Archives: Fake news
Facebook bans midterm-meddling accounts and pages
Facebook says it has removed 32 Pages and accounts from Facebook and Instagram for violating its policies.
Social media rumors lead to PepsiCo lawsuit
…so take down those 3,412 Facebook links, 20,244 Facebook posts, 242 YouTube videos, 6 Instagram links, and 562 tweets … by court order.
Twitter boots 143K bad apps, throttles developer access to API
Devs now have to register and will be capped at 10 apps, and those apps are now on a diet: no more endless gorging on spam/bot-pestering/etc.
WhatsApp limits message forwarding in response to lynchings
New restrictions in the WhatsApp messaging app are designed to combat a spate of mob lynchings.
Facebook refuses to remove fake news, but will demote it
Facebook last week grappled with journalists’ questions about how serious its fight against fakery is, given it puts up with InfoWars.
Twitter pops a lot of famous people’s follower bubbles
It wiped out accounts locked due to misbehavior, obliterating about 4 followers for non-famous mortals and millions for the glitterati.
Facebook to be blocked in Papua New Guinea for one month
The plan: figure out how it affects people; ID users behind fake accounts, fake news & porn posts; and maybe cook up its own social network.
Facebook crushes 583 million fake accounts in 3 months
On a daily basis, it disables millions of fake accounts before they ever hatch.
Google cracks down on election meddling advertisers
Google will now require people or groups purchasing federal election ads to show that they’re US citizens or lawful residents.