Topic
Disinformation
166 published works
The Right Coast
Demanding Silicon Valley Suppress Hyper-Partisan Sites in Favor of Mainstream News (The NYT) is a Fraud – Glenn Greenwald
Due in part to a self-interested desire to re-establish their monopoly on discourse by crushing any independent or dissenting voices, and in part by a censorious and arrogant mindset which…
Mike McBride Online
Shared Links (weekly) Dec. 27, 2020
By Mike McBride
Social Media and Mental Health: Dos and Don’ts It’s time to accept that disinformation is a cyber security issue Show Your IT Professionals Some Love A Hackers ‘Shipageddon’ Has Set…
Cruise Law News
Miami Herald: Cruise Line “Secretly Funded a Disinformation Campaign” to Try and Defeat Recent Key West Referendum
By Jim Walker
As revealed in a blockbuster article by the Miami Herald today, several cruise lines were so concerned with losing three recent referendums pending before voters in Key West, that they…
MediaWrites
Disinformation and COVID-19: EU Commission publishes second set of reports on actions taken by online platforms and advertisers to tackle coronavirus disinformation
On the 7th October 2020, the European Commission published its second set of reports on how the signatories to the Code of Practice on Disinformation have tackled false and misleading…
The Right Coast
Vegas Oddsmaker Says, The Fix Was In, Trump Was Robbed, This Election Was Stolen Investment Watch
Why would Fox News be in such a rush to call Arizona for Biden? At that moment, Trump s odds crashed almost instantly from 8 to 1, back down to…
The Right Coast
No, The Army Didn’t Seize Server Showing Trump Election Landslide – The New York Times
Allies of President Trump are spreading another baseless rumor about computer-based vote manipulation, days after they gained attention for falsely claiming that a widely used piece of election administration software…
The Right Coast
How Tech Utopia Fostered Tyranny The New Atlantis
How did we get here, from Facebook s mission to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together ? Riot-inducing fake news and election meddling…
DigitalBusiness.Law
The Code of Practice: Putting an end to fake news?
Disinformation and fake news has come under much scrutiny in the past couple of years, and the (voluntary) Code of Practice on Disinformation was BigTech’s attempt to stave off compulsory…
The Right Coast
Disinformation By Popular Demand: How The Authenticity of Hunter s Laptop Became Immaterial JONATHAN TURLEY
It did not matter that the answer omitted the key assertion that this was not Hunter s laptop or emails or that he did not leave the computer with this…
MediaWrites
Assessment of the Code of Practice on Disinformation
On the 10th September 2020, the EU Commission published its assessment on how the Code of Practice on Disinformation has been implemented. The Code is a self-regulatory initiative signed by…