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    Misinformation woes could multiply with ‘deepfake’ videos

    ‘Deepfake’ videos that manipulate reality are becoming more sophisticated due to advances in artificial intelligence.

    813 days ago
  • Pope Francis. Picture: United Nations Photo.

    Pope Francis warns against Internet 'disinformation'

    The Internet 'is a source of knowledge and relationships that were once unthinkable,' the Argentine pope said in a message for the World Day of Social Communications.

    817 days ago
  • National Commissioner of Police, General Khehla Sitole. Picture: GCIS

    SAPS condemns fake 'white people brought crime to SA' quote attributed to Sitole

    A fake news story circulating on social media quotes Sitole as saying "white people brought crime to South Africa", among other things.

    850 days ago
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    Nigeria media unites against 'fake news' and 'a million Trumps'

    The CrossCheck Nigeria project aims to get normally competing newsrooms to work together to investigate and disprove erroneous claims, particularly on social media.

    874 days ago
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    Unisa investigates after employee alleged to be behind fake news websites

    News24 revealed that the employee was behind the set-up of more than 10 fake news sites and that he was making money off them through adverts.

    883 days ago
  • A misinformation newsstand is seen in midtown Manhattan on 30 October 2018, aiming to educate news consumers about the dangers of disinformation, or fake news, in the lead-up to the US midterm elections. The first-of-its-kind newsstand was set up by the Columbia Journalism Review. Picture: AFP

    On eve of vote, US warns voters to look for Russian fake news

    The announcement came days after a new study found that misinformation on social media was spreading at a greater rate than during the run-up to the 2016 presidential vote.

    897 days ago
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    Nobel laureates seek guarantees to 'reliable information'

    World leaders should take a stand on the matter when they gather for a November 11-13 'Peace Forum' in Paris, the signatories urged.

    898 days ago
  • Brazil president Jair Bolsonaro. Picture: AFP

    Brazil's next president declares war on 'fake news' media

    Several seasoned journalists working for Brazil’s biggest news organisations told Reuters in recent weeks they have started to throttle back their criticism.

    898 days ago
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    Researchers: Despite crackdown, ‘junk news’ still flourishes on social media

    Oxford Internet Institute researchers concluded that Facebook and Twitter remain filled with ‘extremist, sensationalist, conspiratorial, masked commentary,’ and other forms of ‘low-quality’ news.

    899 days ago
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    Fake news accounts: Nigerian social media’s copycat issue

    Nigeria has an unenviable reputation around the world for corruption and is known particularly for its ‘419’ email scams.

    902 days ago
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    [ANALYSIS] Why do so many people fall for fake profiles online?

    Almost every online deception, fraud and scam – even propaganda and misinformation campaigns – begins with a fake social media profile. How do fakers get real people to agree to be friends?

    942 days ago
  • FILE: US President Donald Trump before boarding Airforce One at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. Picture: AFP

    Trump social media 'censorship' claim is fake but widely believed

    The US president returned to the topic on Friday with a tweet saying: "Social Media Giants are silencing millions of people... People have to figure out what is real, and what is not, without censorship!"

    967 days ago
  • A screengrab of CNN anchor Brian Stelter. Picture: CNN

    'If I see them, I'm going to shoot them'

    The debate around media freedom has been ratcheted up after a caller threatened to kill two CNN news anchors live on air.

    989 days ago
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    Facebook fakers get better at covering tracks, security experts say

    The company said on Tuesday it had removed 32 fake pages and accounts from Facebook and Instagram involved in what it called 'coordinated inauthentic behaviour.'

    990 days ago
  • US President Donald Trump. Picture: AFP

    [ANALYSIS] The term ‘fake news’ is doing great harm

    Not only do different people have opposing views about the meaning of ‘fake news’, in practice the term undermines the intellectual values of democracy – and there is a real possibility that it means nothing.

    995 days ago
  • FILE: A Cambridge Analytica sign is pictured at the entrance of the building which houses the offices of Cambridge Analytica, in central London on 21 March 2018. Picture: AFP.

    UK MPs: Tech firms should be made liable for ‘fake news’ on sites

    Facebook has increasingly become a focus of the media committee’s inquiry into ‘fake news’.

    997 days ago
  • Mr Bean. Picture: Facebook.

    [FAKE NEWS ALERT] Claims Mr Bean is dead will give your PC a virus

    News posts claiming actor Rowan Atkinson, who found fame with the Mr Bean character, has died could give your computer a virus.

    1006 days ago
  • FILE: Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan gives testimony in the commission of inquiry into governance at Sars. Picture: Barry Bateman/EWN

    Gordhan says SA may be experiencing 'Bell Pottinger Part II'

    Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gorhan says the country is having to deal with other fake news entities.

    1013 days ago
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    WhatsApp launches Indian media blitz to dispel fake news woes

    Beatings and deaths triggered by false incendiary messages in India, WhatsApp’s biggest market with more than 200 million users, caused a public relations nightmare.

    1015 days ago
  • An area along Highlands Drive in Mitchells Plain burns as residents from the Siqalo informal settlement protest for better service delivery on 2 May 2018. Picture: Graig-Lee Smith/EWN

    Mitchells Plain CPF urges residents to help combat fake news

    The body says that over the past few months, false voice notes and text messages have been circulated amid protests and community violence.

    1060 days ago
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    Mitchells Plain CPF develops new tagging system to curb fake news

    The body says over the past few months, false voice notes and text messages have been circulated amid protests and community violence.

    1061 days ago
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