November 19, 2024 Deepfakes that defame political opponents and calls to vote on platforms where political advertising is officially banned: in the super election year of 2024, several instances showed that major digital platforms are not doing enough to combat misinformation and disinformation, despite having announced relevant policies. This is the conclusion of the second […]
September 18, 2023 GADMO and the EDMO Ireland Hub have presented a detailed analysis on how major digital platforms deal with misinformation and disinformation. It shows: The platforms’ self-disclosures leave much to be desired. Overall, they do too little to curb the spread of false claims and disinformation. The analysis specifically examines whether Google, Meta,
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February 22, 2023 AI models generate texts, images and videos – and sometimes stray far from reality. Currently, systems like ChatGPT, DALL-E and Stable Diffusion impressively show what learning systems are capable of. Many people can interact with the models for the first time, try out scenarios and test use cases. “This step is particularly
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February 20, 2023 “COVID is no more dangerous than the flu”, “masks are harmful to health” and actually “it is the vaccination against the virus that makes people ill”. Social media has been rife with misinformation about pretty much every aspect of the COVID-19 pandemic since it was confirmed that a previously unknown pathogen had
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