Posts Tagged ‘#fakenews’
the Nonsense Papers
categories: academic dishonesty, cheating
The Mysterious Case of the Nonsense Papers
A peer-reviewed journal published hundreds of them. Why?
One clue is that the overwhelming majority of the papers were ostensibly written by authors who claim to be affiliated with Chinese institutions. Universities in China often reward researchers for publishing in notable journals listed on the Science Citation Index, in some cases paying them cash bonuses, though China’s science and education ministries have recently tried to crack down on the practice. It’s also long been a requirement that doctoral students at many Chinese universities publish a paper before they graduate.
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China’s Plagiarism Problem
https://www.forbes.com/2010/05/26/china-cheating-innovation-markets-economy-plagiarism.html
Plagiarism and the lack of academic integrity it engenders are intricately connected to the larger debate about intellectual property rights (IPR) in China and the government’s promoted idea of a harmonious society to support stability.
fake news research Vienna University
categories: information literacy, media literacy
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Rumble.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumble_(website)
Researchers studying conspiracy theories and misinformation about COVID-19 note that several content creators have gained a receptive audience on Rumble after their productions have been pulled from Youtube or Facebook. They include Del Bigtree, Sherri Tenpenny, and Simone Gold.[9][10]
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/rumble/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherelliott/2019/02/21/these-are-the-real-fake-news-sites/
research on fake news
Lack of attention was the driving factor behind 51.2% of misinformation sharing among social media users who participated in an experiment conducted by a group of researchers from MIT, the University of Regina in Canada, University of Exeter Business School in the United Kingdom and Center for Research and Teaching in Economics in Mexico.
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detect deepfake
A teenage student in Ireland has won a national science competition for developing technology that can more easily detect “deepfake” videos online. from r/UpliftingNews
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QAnon believer
He’s a former QAnon believer. He doesn’t want to tell his story, but thinks it might help.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/10/24/qanon-believer-conspiracy-theory/
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half truths fake news
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Chief Disinformation Officer
“Trying to debunk misinformation after it has spread is like shutting the barn door after the horse has bolted. By pre-bunking, we aim to stop the spread of fake news in the first place,” said Dr Sander van der Linden, Director of the Cambridge Social Decision-Making lab and senior author of the new study.Game combats political misinformation by letting players undermine democracy: A short online game in which players are recruited as a “Chief Disinformation Officer” and use tactics like trolling to sabotage elections in a peaceful town has shown to reduce susceptibility to political misinformation from r/science
Game combats political misinformation by letting players undermine democracy
The free-to-play Harmony Square is released to the public today, along with a study on its effectiveness published in the Harvard Misinformation Review
It has been created by University of Cambridge psychologists with support from the US Department of State’s Global Engagement Center and Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).
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Spain tackles fake news
While the text does not mention specific cases, Russian interference has been proven in the 2016 election campaign in the United States, which saw Donald Trump victorious, as well as the Brexit referendum in the United Kingdom the same year, which saw voters narrowly decide they wanted their country to leave the European Union.
the text relies on the classification of the European Commission: “Verifiably false or misleading information created, presented and disseminated for economic gain or to intentionally deceive the public.” This includes electoral processes, but also sectors such as health, environment or security. The text underlines that the current coronavirus pandemic has been accompanied by an “unprecedented infodemic,” i.e. a proliferation of fake news.
The document recognizes that the “news media, digital platforms, academic world, technology sector, NGOs and society in general play an essential role in the fight against disinformation, with actions such as its identification and not contributing to its spread, the promotion of activities that raise awareness and training or the development of tools to avoid its propagation.”
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