New technology to show why images and video are genuine launches on BBC News.
‘Content credentials’ feature means visitors to the BBC News site will now see a ‘how we verified this’ button underneath images and videos on BBC Verify content.
The BBC News Verify team has published their first article using a new open media provenance technology called C2PA that we've been working on for the past three years.
This shows where media comes from and how it’s been edited - like an audit trail or a history.
Yes, this!
Both side do not have equal weight in many issues. Sometimes one side is just wrong.
I would like more facts in our news and less 'commentary' too.
Thanks to reporters and writers who are doing a good job. #news#FakeNews
This is totally neat. A game to #teach how to better spot #FakeNews. I played — had fun and learned!
"#Scientists who worked with us on the development of this #game found that playing Bad News improves people’s ability to spot #manipulation techniques in #SocialMedia posts, increases their #confidence in spotting such techniques, and reduces their willingness to share manipulative content with #people in their #network."
Prisca Thévenot obligée de s'auto-démentir à l'instant: Il n'y a eu "aucun attentat" déjoué durant le week-end de Pâques, contrairement à ce qu'elle affirmait crânement après le Conseil des ministre ce mercredi, selon Franceinfo. La porte-parole du gouvernement annonçait aussi une initiative "contre les fake news": ce niveau de crash, c'est artistique... Même Groland ne fait pas mieux!
We all make mistakes in life. One mistake I made was in voting for the man on the right in this picture, Dimitri Lascaris. He was running for leader of the Green Party of Canada at the time and was, I thought, an exciting eco-socialist option. He has always been anti-NATO and anti-USA hegemony, and that's fine. But now he has turned into a mouthpiece for Russian propaganda in Canada. He repeats the same words as Putin. Here he is, last week, speaking to the RT newschannel from Athens, Greece on the 'persecution' of pro-Russia journalists. I wonder how much he gets paid for towing Putin's line. Screw you Dimitri. I'm sorry I shook your hand. #RussiaUkraineWar#Canada#CanPoli#CdnPoli#Russia#Ukraine#FakeNews#Propaganda#GPC#GreenPartyofCanada
Twitter: Accounts mit blauen Haken verbreiten Fake News zum Ukraine-Krieg
Auf Twitter gehen immer wieder falsche Behauptungen zum Ukraine-Krieg viral, unterstützt durch Accounts mit den blauen Haken. Das hat die BBC ermittelt.
Meanwhile over on the ex-bird site, giant doomsday accounts are peddling nonsense like this.
Part of what is funny/sad is how lazy these accounts are. The promoted video has a time stamp right at the bottom showing that it was taken a week ago!
There's an interesting discussion on what some call the #polycrisis -- the set of interrelated, growing problems the world faces from #climate change to #fakenews etc -- over at The Well, in the "State of the World 2024" discussion with @bruces and @jonl
Über 30.000 irreführende Aussagen hat alleine Donald Trump während seiner Amtszeit als US-Präsident getätigt. Seit 2017 steht der Begriff #FakeNews offiziell im Duden.
Prosecutors in Trump’s #criminal trial say he has violated a #GagOrder barring him from attacking #witnesses, #jurors & others close to the case. Testimony is set to resume later Tuesday morning.
#Pecker said that after the #Republican#debates, #MichaelCohen would call him & direct him to focus the negative coverage on whichever candidate had been most successful.
Pecker's testimony isn't just damaging to #Trump. He’s killing his career by going through headline after headline & suggesting he attacked Trump's rivals to aid Trump.
This trial exposed how much David Pecker helped Trump by constantly putting fake negative news about his opponents on every grocery store aisle in America. Pecker freely admitted it. I wonder if that exposure has done anything to change the minds of people who believed those stories. Or whether these people might view future tabloid headlines with a more skeptical eye. Probably not.
We are posting here the messages from organizations, institutions, NGOs, etc. that have opened a channel on Mastodon and left #X/Twitter. Many of their arguments cite the same points as mentioned in our open letter calling the universities to become active on Mastodon and fediverse servers.
The messages represent a broad consensus among Internet users who want to bring the choice of social media in line with their mission statements. The first of these is the data protection foundation @DS_Stiftung.
It writes about itself: „Acting independently in the field of #DataPrivacy, Stiftung Datenschutz links politics and the public, academics and business. It complements existing organizations and initiatives while liaising closely with German data protection authorities on state and federal levels.“ https://stiftungdatenschutz.org/english
At the end of September, she drew the consequences and broke away from X/ #Twitter https://twitter.com/DS_Stiftung/status/1704059550335119522
The conversion to #Fediverse is being pursued with great commitment at academic #libraries in Germany. The #Mastodon instance https://openbiblio.social , which was founded several years ago and now has 630 active library and information institutions and their staff, plays a central role in this. Accounts with large numbers of followers include @tibhannover, @stabi_berlin and others.
The portal gave the following explanation for its creation: "There are a number of reasons to be dissatisfied with the current development of #Twitter. The centralized and commercially oriented service does little to combat #discrimination of all kinds, #HateSpeech or #FakeNews."