The EU on Tuesday formally accused China and Russia of mounting targeted coronavirus disinformation campaigns to undermine European democracy, in documents seen by AFP. In a paper on what it called the ‘flood’ of misleading and inaccurate information proliferating around the pandemic, Brussels says Beijing and Moscow had set out to polarise debate and burnish … Read more
International group of fact-checkers launch a myth-busting WhatsApp bot that lets users query terms like ‘masks’ to pull up trustworthy information on coronavirus The bot is designed by Poynter Institute’s International Fact-Checkers Network It can be queried by WhatsApp users and pulls from the IFCN’s database IFCN’s chatbot also directs users to their local fact-check … Read more
YouTube adds fact-check ‘information panels’ to search results in the US in an effort to prevent the spread of misinformation amid coronavirus pandemic The panels will contain articles from third-party fact checkers They will show up in video searches to help debunk misinformation Among the topics affected will be COVID-19 related videos YouTube will slowly … Read more
Researchers call on social media platforms to archive coronavirus misinformation so they can study effects on public health An letter calls on social media platforms to archive COVID-19 misinformation The data can be used to track how misinformation affects public health It could also be used to issue regular transparency reports The letters asks for data … Read more
What is the coronavirus? A coronavirus is a type of virus which can cause illness in animals and people. Viruses break into cells inside their host and use them to reproduce itself and disrupt the body’s normal functions. Coronaviruses are named after the Latin word ‘corona’, which means crown, because they are encased by a … Read more
YouTube will add a section for ‘verified’ videos about coronavirus to its homepage in a bid to stop the spread of misinformation The platform will add a row for legitimate videos on its homepage Content will be aggregated from real news sources and heal authorities It hopes that the measure will help stop the proliferation … Read more
What is the coronavirus? A coronavirus is a type of virus which can cause illness in animals and people. Viruses break into cells inside their host and use them to reproduce itself and disrupt the body’s normal functions. Coronaviruses are named after the Latin word ‘corona’, which means crown, because they are encased by a … Read more
What is the coronavirus? A coronavirus is a type of virus which can cause illness in animals and people. Viruses break into cells inside their host and use them to reproduce itself and disrupt the body’s normal functions. Coronaviruses are named after the Latin word ‘corona’, which means crown, because they are encased by a … Read more