Friday, September 20, 2024

Fake news? You learn to assimilate it since the childhood!

Things are not going well. American scientists prove that responsible for the thoughtless assimilation of the fake news are, among others, the mechanisms necessary...

5 ways to identify a bot (also a Russian one)

Source: MotherJones.com / own There are no better experts in fighting against fake news and disinformation than Americans. No wonder. They are wise after the...

Malaysia cancels „lex anti-fake”

Much is being said about more countries planning or already introducing laws meant to fight against false information in media. Meanwhile new Malaysian government...

„Sputnik’s” manipulation: Are Ukrainians in Poland slaves?

Manipulation is not only a 100% false information. It includes also ambiguities, half-truths and selective quotes or showing them in the wrong context. In such...

Fakes in the museum. Since Charles II to Russian bots

Sources: Boone County Historical Society, Herald - Whig, Wikipedia In the Boone County History and Culture Center museum in the American state of Columbia the...

Fake news? You learn to assimilate it since the childhood!

Source: MedicalNewsToday Things are not going well. American scientists prove that responsible for the thoughtless assimilation of the fake news are, among others, the mechanisms...

Fake: Ukrainian Children Forced To Play with Stuffed Hitler Toy

At the end of July the Kremlin propaganda machine came up with a new fake that even surprised the seasoned StopFake team. Ukrainian children...

Fake: Foreigners Buying Land in Crimea. Sanctions Not Working.

Russian media are running stories claiming that foreigners are buying up land parcels in Crimea and the sanctions the West imposed on Russia because...

StopFake #196 with Marko Suprun

Fake: Ukrainian soldier defects to separatist self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic. Russia continues trying to discredit the open source investigation organization Bellingcat. Is a picture...

The number of fact-checkers around the world: 156… and growing

By Mark Stencel, for Duke Reporters' Lab he number of active fact-checking projects around the world now stands at 156, with steady growth driven by expanding...