“Truly shameful and pathetic anti-Bitcoin propaganda,” states crypto influencer Walker America. America was responding to an episode from the Bloomberg show, Getting Warmer with Kal Penn. “How many pe...
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Twitter Lags Behind Other Tech Giants In Disinformation Fight, EU Warns—As Musk’s Platform Antagonizes Regulators
Topline Twitter’s efforts to tackle disinformation have fallen behind other major platforms in the last six months, the European Commission said on Thursday, chastising the platform for not taking its...
How We Got Here And What To Do About It
(Photo by Mikhail KLIMENTYEV / SPUTNIK / AFP) (Photo by MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty … [+] Images) SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images As we watch the horrors unfolding in Ukraine, we canno...
‘Shot In The Arm’ Shows How Disinformation Can Be Deadly
A doctor examines a child’s leg, weakened by polio. Nearly eradicated by global vaccination, … [+] poliomyelitis cases are on the rise due to a decline in vaccination rates. Bettmann Archi...
Twitter Reportedly Leaves Brussels—Europe’s Regulatory Hub—Amid Concerns About Musk’s Content Moderation Plans
Topline Twitter has closed its entire office in Brussels, according to the Financial Times, cutting ties to one of the world’s most important regulatory hubs as fears grow the firm will struggle to mo...
Elon Musk’s New Tool To Shape Public Opinion
Like media moguls before him, the world’s wealthiest person now owns a personal mouthpiece with Twitter. It may prove more potent at influencing public opinion than traditional news outlets. As long a...
AI Ethics And AI-Induced Psychological Inoculation To Help Humans With Disinformation
Using AI to inoculate our minds from disinformation and misinformation. getty What are we going to do about the massive glut of disinformation and misinformation? It all is demonstrably getting worse ...
Why Single Out The Oil Industry For Supposed Disinformation?
A picture from a series of humurous novelty images taken by Sunday People photographer Dennis … [+] Hutchinson. – The end of the world is nigh buit not before you get your holidays booked ...
Tether responds to Wall Street Journal ‘disinformation’
Tether Holdings Limited has clapped back at The Wall Street Journal over an article it claims spread “false information” about the stablecoin issuer’s profitability, solvency and accounting standards....
Christie Brinkley Trots Out Nuclear Disinformation
Not Really Emission Free The author with Ted Sanderson Nuclear power is definitely getting its day in the sun, partly from long-term nuclear power advocates (duh), but also from those worried about cl...
BAYC Files Lawsuit Against Parties Behind ‘Crazy Disinformation Campaign’
NFT News The team prepared the letter to more specifically counter the accusations. The hour-long video has received over 800,000 views on YouTube since its debut. The Bored Ape Yacht Club’s founders ...
Bored Ape Founders Respond to ‘Crazy Disinformation Campaign’ From ‘Demented Troll’
Six months after Yuga Labs first responded to accusations that its NFT collection, the Bored Ape Yacht Club, contained racist imagery, its founders have published a blog post addressing the issue in f...
BAYC founders call Nazi conspiracy video ‘crazy disinformation campaign’
? Want to work with us? CryptoSlate is hiring for a handful of positions! The founders of the Bored Ape Yach Club (BAYC) responded to the recent controversy surrounding a documentary accusing them of ...
The EU Just Stepped Up Its Fight Against Disinformation—Here’s What That Means
Topline Google and Meta were among a number of tech giants that have signed the European Commission’s updated and stronger guidelines on disinformation, the latest in a string of measures the EU...
Fox News Hosts Take A Victory Lap Over The Fate Of Biden Administration Disinformation Board
Fox News host Sean Hannity, shown speaking during a taping of his show, “Hannity,” in New York. (AP … [+] Photo/Frank Franklin II, File) ASSOCIATED PRESS After weeks of blasting it a...
The Disinformation Governance Board Is Dead. Here’s The Right Way To Fight Disinformation.
WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 1: Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas speaks during the daily … [+] press briefing at the White House on March 1, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Dr...
Why Consumers Should Reject The Annual Disinformation Campaign About The Safety Of Our Produce Supply
Fruits and vegetables are an important part of a healthy diet. The US supply is very safe from a … [+] pesticide residue perspective, but a perennial disinformation campaign would have you belie...
Russia Opens Criminal Case Against Activist Vladimir Kara-Murza For Spreading Disinformation, Lawyer Says
Topline Russia has opened a criminal case against opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza—who previously survived two suspected poisonings in Russia—for spreading “false information,” his lawyer said ...
DuckDuckGo and its Move on ‘Disinformation’ Betrays its User Base
DuckDuckGo is acting in a similar way to the tech giants who don’t trust their users to know disinformation when they see it, says Colin Pape, founder of Presearch. Many users of privacy-focused searc...
The Russia-Ukraine Information War Has More Fronts Than You Think
TOPSHOT – Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and Chinese President Xi Jinping pose during their … [+] meeting in Beijing, on February 4, 2022. (Photo by Alexei Druzhinin / Sputnik / AFP)...
YouTube Suspends Fox News Host Dan Bongino For Covid Disinformation
Topline Right-wing commentator Dan Bongino’s popular YouTube channel has been suspended for violating the platform’s Covid disinformation policy, after Bongino falsely claimed in a video t...