Digital Literacy for St. Cloud State University
Police continue to use social media in questionable ways to monitor and track down protestors in photos and videos, according to a new report.
Manufactured social media profiles, not linked to any real person, are theoretically a violation of Facebook’s authenticity policy.
this infographic from the European Association for Viewers Interests which took me on a tour of ten types of misleading news—propaganda, clickbait, sponsored content, satire and hoax, error, partisan, conspiracy theory, pseudoscience, misinformation and bogus information.
Two-pronged technique detects manipulated facial expressions and identity swaps
https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2022/05/03/new-method-detects-deepfake-videos-99-accuracy
Researchers behind the study are calling for safeguards to prevent deep fakes.
https://www.freethink.com/technology/ai-fake-faces-trustwortiness
Using AI responsibly is the “immediate challenge” facing the field of AI governance, the World Economic Forum says.
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more on deep fakes in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=deep+fakes
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more on fake news in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=fake+news
Before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to repeal net neutrality at the end of 2017, the agency collected public opinion on the policy. In all, it said it received nearly 22 million comments. Over the years, there’s been a fair amount of discussion surrounding where many of those came from, with a study from that same year suggesting that only six percent of the comments were unique.
a report found the “largest” broadband companies funded a secret astroturfing campaign to push the FCC toward repealing net neutrality. At the time, AT&T, Comcast, T-Mobile, Sprint and Verizon (Engadget’s parent company) were in favor of repealing the policy. The industry hired several third-party firms to build public support for their decision. Ostensibly, those companies were supposed to convince people to support the broadband industry with incentives like gift cards and prizes. Instead, they simply submitted 8.5 million fake comments. The attorney general has fined three of the companies involved in sending in those comments $4.4 million.
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more on net neutrality in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=netneutrality
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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more on fake news in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=fake+news
From the US election to the Covid-19 crisis, every major event is now accompanied by a wave of fake news. But is this…
Posted by Le Monde diplomatique in English on Tuesday, February 2, 2021
https://mondediplo.com/2021/01/13fakenews
free e-book
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https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=fake+news
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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https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=deepfake
Fake authority
You may see articles by Vernon Coleman, for instance. As a former GP he would seem to have some credentials, yet he has a history of supporting pseudoscientific ideas, including misinformation about the causes of Aids. David Icke, meanwhile, has hosted videos by Barrie Trower, an alleged expert on 5G who is, in reality, a secondary school teacher. And Piers Corbyn cites reports by the Centre for Research on Globalisation, which sounds impressive but was founded by a 9/11 conspiracy theorist.
“pre-suasion” – essentially, removing the reflexive mental blocks that might make them reject your arguments.
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more on conspiracy theories in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=conspiracy
more on fake news in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=fake+news