Bing Follows Google, Adds Fact Check Tags To Search Results
Following Google’s steps, Bing announced Friday it will include fact-checking labels in its search results. Bing’s new “Fact Check” label feature will help internet surfers…
Read MoreFollowing Google’s steps, Bing announced Friday it will include fact-checking labels in its search results. Bing’s new “Fact Check” label feature will help internet surfers…
Read MoreIt’s very hard to cut extremists off from the internet. ADragan/Shutterstock.com Thomas Holt, Michigan State University; Joshua D. Freilich, City University of New York, and…
The disinformation and falsehoods that can accompany breaking news online — involving terror attacks or national elections — have become a familiar plague in recent…
Is speaking some evil really so bad? VMKphotos/shutterstock Daniel Klyn, University of Michigan; Christopher Beem, Pennsylvania State University; Maryanne Reed, West Virginia University, and Troy…
After the presidential election in November, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had said that his company was committed to fighting fake news. But the fact-checkers enlisted…
Proceed with caution. Gil C via Shutterstock Precious N Chatterje-Doody, University of Manchester As stories of Russian “information warfare” in various Western countries continue to…
The highest-ranking U.N. human rights official is warning U.S. President Donald Trump’s repeated criticisms of the news media could incite violence against journalists. Trump has…
Russian-linked bots and trolls have caused a surge in use of the hashtag #ResignPaulRyan on Twitter over the last 48 hours, just as the Republican…
Louis XIV ‘confesses his sins’ to Pere de la Chaize, 1694. Anon Linda Kiernan, Trinity College Dublin We are in the midst of a information…
Facebook announced it is broadly rolling out its Related Articles feature on the News Feed to counter fake news. Related Articles will now appear underneath…
Efforts to get Fox News to fire commentator Sean Hannity have intensified in recent days, amid allegations that the network collaborated with the White House…
This photograph taken in Paris Friday Dec. 2, 2016 shows stories from USA Daily News 24, a fake news site registered in Veles, Macedonia. USA…
Donald Trump’s attacks on what he has dubbed the “fake news” media have been unrelenting since he took office in January and, according to a…
Conservative U.S. groups that support the Federal Communication Commissions’ potential move to gut net neutrality rules are claiming that millions of pro-net neutrality comments…
(Shutterstock) Christopher Waddell, Carleton University Should journalists be licensed? The Conversation Canada commissioned two articles to argue for and against the idea. Read the counterpoint…
Shutterstock David Maslove, Queen’s University, Ontario Should journalists be licensed? The Conversation Canada commissioned two articles to argue for and against the idea. Read the…
Credit: CC0 Public Domain On Monday, scientists revealed some of the reasons for the explosion of hoaxes and lies on social media—an information overload has…
Ed Madison, University of Oregon Research last year out of Stanford University revealed that students – from middle schoolers to undergraduates – are easily duped…
Shutterstock Craig Harper, Nottingham Trent University “Fake news” is the buzzword of 2017. Barely a day goes by without a headline about president Donald Trump…
Jakraphong Photography via Shutterstock.com Paul Bernal, University of East Anglia Fake news has become big news over the past few months. And that’s mainly due…
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