Tell people that Wiki is a problem when it comes to antisemitism or historical revisionism and they will most likely brush you off. You will hear stock responses that range from ‘everyone knows that about Wikipedia‘ or ‘I only use it as a guide‘ to the more expertly constructed excuse...
Mozilla, privacy campaigners, academics and others recently published an open letter to Facebook and Google, asking them to suspend political advertising for the duration of the general election to prevent the spread of disinformation – but Facebook doesn't appear to have plans to do...
which means we need more action, more ways to reach more people. Each initiative like that gives people strength to fight for their identity and the identity of those close to their hearts. We focus on the whole CEE region because we want ...
Every day you read how the “climate crisis” is real, and rapidly getting worse. Humans burning fossil fuels to support out-of-control consumerism have brought the earth to the brink of disaster. Droughts, floods, hurricanes, tornados, earthquakes, and plagues of every sort are proliferating. ...
Pit bulls are so “out of it” when they attack they don’t hesitate to redirect onto anyone coming to break up the fight (whereas most non-fighting breeds will stop fighting when their owners come and get a hand on their collar) – so many human maulings and deaths have occurred ...
The most egregious examples of disinformation originated in the darker corners of the internet, but many found bigger audiences on social media. And big social media companies appeared to struggle to contain the spread of the content. Here are some of those conspiracy theories: ...
Some of the 400 firefighters who had been deployed to fight the massive blaze at Notre Dame Cathedral are leaving, to applause from the gathered crowds, according to CNN’s Nic Robertson, who is on site at the devastated cathedral. It is thought that the fire, which broke out Monday even...