The paper presents a qualitative study of fake news on Polish-language internet media that seeks to arrive at their thematic classification in order to identify areas particularly vulnerable to disinformation in Poland. Fake news examples from 2019 were selected using popular Polish fact-check...
Socrates was condemned to death more than twenty-five hundred years ago under the fake news that he was guilty of impiety against the pantheon of Athens and corruption of the youth.Footnote26A Google Trends Analysis of the
misinformation refers to “the inadvertent sharing of false information”, while disinformation can be defined as “the deliberate creation and sharing of information known to be false”. Among the negative consequences that fake news can have for companies are loss of sponsorships, reduced credibility...
Recent examples include fake videos supposedly showing Ukrainian soldiers burning effigies of Trump or his supporters. One clip depicts soldiers saying Trump must not be allowed to take office and should “never be president again.” Multiple researchers have debunked the video, noting telltale si...
Examples of corporate disinformation attacks classified by motive Financial gain Using software powered by artificial intelligence (AI), bandits spoofed the voice of an energy firm’s CEO, demanding the fraudulent transfer of close to a quarter of a million dollars to a supplier in another country....
Deep fakes come in all shapes and sizes. Some are simpler and some are more advanced. Some of the most popular examples of deep fakes are: Face Swap# Face swapping is the act of replacing the face in a video or image from one person to another. Face swapping requires dedicated software...
“perceived accuracy of fake news” found that even corrections to mis- anddisinformationcan often fail to fully erase reliance on false information because of continued influence effects. Mis- and disinformation also persist in memory and compete with corrections during reasoning, even when people ...
US security agencies singled out two examples of disinformation. One was a video of an interview with a fake "whistleblower" claiming the election in Arizona was being rigged through fake overseas ballots and changing voter rolls to favour Kamala Harris. ...
Paul cited a series of examples for his assertion, one of which was the United States invaded Iraq in 2003 on a pretext of "weapons of mass destruction." The presentation of so-called "evidence" -- a test tube containing white powder -- by then U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell at...
Mistake, misspelling, and misunderstanding are some examples of other common words besides misinformation that use mis–to mean “wrong.” Misinformation is, of course, related to the verb misinform, which means “to give wrong or misleading information to” and is first recorded around 1350–1400...