As the presidential campaign was heating up four years ago, the University of Washington and Stanford University led a nonpartisan cohort that monitored and publicized in real time their research… Read More
As disinformation and Russian propaganda flood social media during the invasion of Ukraine, information experts are providing advice about how to avoid propagating false narratives. Kate Starbird, director of the… Read More
Project Veritas, a right-wing activist group with a history of trying to discredit mainstream media organizations, has filed a defamation lawsuit against the University of Washington and Stanford University over… Read More
As we’re wading through the flood of information about the novel coronavirus, it’s difficult for even the most skeptical among us to sniff out truth from fiction 100% of the… Read More
The White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy and other federal agencies today met with Amazon, Microsoft and other tech industry leaders to kick off a campaign aimed at… Read More
— As the 2020 presidential election approaches, many are concerned about the effects disinformation campaigns may have on the race, since they played a big part in the 2016 election.… Read More
Add LinkedIn to the list of social media platforms being used for nefarious purposes by a foreign government. A New York Times report on Tuesday called the Microsoft-owned site, with… Read More
Computer scientists from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have mapped the ebb and flow of Reddit’s discussions about cryptocurrency — not only to see how online chatter can predict market… Read More
In the battle for AI supremacy, the best defense is a good offense. That’s the philosophy behind Grover, a neural network application that is fighting disinformation by creating its own… Read More
