YouTube was the slowest major platform to disallow misinformation during the 2020 U.S. election and almost three years later, the company will toss that policy out altogether. The company announced […]
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Back to news homeTwitter’s restrictive API may leave researchers out in the cold
Earlier this month, Twitter announced that it is going to curtail free access to its API — the programming interface that lets third-party developers interact with Twitter. While the move certainly […]
Google, YouTube outline plans for the US midterm elections
Google and its video sharing app YouTube outlined plans for handling the 2022 U.S. midterm elections this week, highlighting tools at its disposal to limit the effort to limit the […]
This startup is setting a DALL-E 2-like AI free, consequences be damned
DALL-E 2, OpenAI’s powerful text-to-image AI system, can create photos in the style of cartoonists, 19th century daguerreotypists, stop-motion animators and more. But it has an important, artificial limitation: a […]
Meta takes down deepfake of Ukraine’s President Zelensky surrendering
Meta removed an altered video falsely depicting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky ordering troops to surrender Wednesday. The video is the latest alarming milestone in the parallel information war accompanying Russia’s […]
Twitter removes Russian Embassy’s tweet accusing pregnant bombing victim of being a crisis actor
A cluster of Russian embassy Twitter accounts are sowing misinformation as the country’s bloody invasion of neighboring Ukraine escalates, but they might not get away with it for long. On […]
Joni Mitchell joins Neil Young, pulls her music from Spotify over vaccine misinformation
Spotify’s Joe Rogan headache is about to get a lot worse. Earlier this week, musician Neil Young announced that he would pull his music from the streaming service to protest […]
Oversight Board calls on Meta to evaluate its role in spreading violence in Ethiopia
The Oversight Board, a group Facebook created to review its policy decisions, weighed in on a case of misinformation in war-torn Ethiopia Tuesday, warning the company about the risks of […]
What I learned building a fact-checking startup
Dhruv Ghulati Contributor Dhruv Ghulati founded one of the first global startups tackling online misinformation and is one of the first machine learning scientists to research automated fact-checking. He holds […]
YouTube will now ban content with vaccine misinformation
YouTube expanded its medical misinformation policies today to include new guidelines that ban vaccine misinformation. The Google-owned video platform had previously banned over 1 million videos spreading dangerous COVID-19 misinformation. […]