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Man Facing Up to Three Years in Prison After Sharing AI Slop That Leads to Mass Panic https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/singapore-man-ai-slop-misinformation-three-years-prison-panic #AI #Ethics #Misinformation

Gee, ya don’t say … #Bluesky Says #Kremlin Is Hacking Its Platform to Spread #Propaganda The company said it was fighting Russian efforts to hijack real #users’ accounts to post fake #content, an apparently novel tactic. #MediaLiteracy #disinformation #misinformation #Russia #RussianPropaganda #tech #SocialMedia

RE: https://mastodon.social/@theskope_in/117361731655363293 Sure you did, buddy. Sure. #AI #Bullshit #StolenValor #FalseInformation #Misleading #Misinformation #Disinformation #CantImagineHowBadItsGettingOnOtherPlatforms

From BBC Press Office: New technology to show why images and video are genuine launches on BBC News. ‘Content credentials’ feature means visitors to the BBC News site will now see a ‘how we verified this’ button underneath images and videos on BBC Verify content. http://bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2024/content-credentials-bbc-verify #C2PA #news #journalism #fakenews #disinformation #misinformation | @BBC_News_Labs@social.bbc

An A.I. Image of Trump Kissing a Woman Was Fake. It Spread Anyway. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/business/trump-natalie-harp-photo-ai.html #AI #Deepfakes #Misinformation

“The media can make us believe anything they want – even that Charles loved Diana” by Jonathan Cook on Substack @uk_politics@BBC5Live@social.bbc @BBCRadio4@social.bbc @BBCNews@flipboard.com @guardian@press.coop @Independent@flipboard.com@thetimes@press.coop “Any lie can be repackaged as a self-evident truth once you have absolute narrative control. The naked emperor can be magically clothed, if the media so decides. Amid this pervasive unreliability, there is one North Star by which to navigate. Anything that benefits the billionaires cannot be trusted. As long as they are in charge, we will continue squabbling among ourselves, victims of their self-serving story-telling” https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/the-media-can-make-us-believe-anything #Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #MSM #LegacyMedia #VichyJournalism #Lies #Misinformation #Disinformation #CorporateMedia #KingCharles #Israel #Gaza #Genocide #PalestinianGenocide

"John Malkovich has cancelled a planned trip to Israel next year to appear on stage after a PR firm hired by the show attributed quotes to the actor that the company had written. A press release circulated on 5 September quoted Malkovich as saying he was “thrilled to return to Israel” and looked “forward to meeting the warm Israeli audience once again, to whom I feel a strong closeness and solidarity”. The actor, 72, was alerted to the quotes after reading them in the Hollywood Reporter, who picked them up from the Jerusalem Post. In a statement to the Hollywood Reporter on 8 September, Malkovich said that a “PR company hired by the Israeli promoter drafted a quote for the article that was attributed to me, though I never made the statements that were quoted, nor was I consulted before they were printed.” He added: “I did not utter these phrases, and they most certainly are not approved by me, nor do they reflect my feelings. The fact that they were printed as direct quotes from me is unacceptable and untenable. For this reason, I have decided I cannot participate in the Tel Aviv performance.”" https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/09/john-malkovich-cancels-israel-trip-over-fabricated-solidarity-quote #BoycottIsrael #Misinformation #Corruption #News #Activism

"Misinformation and distrust are among the challenges facing public health workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo as they confront the second-deadliest Ebola outbreak on record. Even though the virus has faded from U.S. headlines, key organizations are still at work providing medical care and training to counter the spread of the disease." https://kffhealthnews.org/public-health/ebola-response-organizations-central-africa-democratic-republic-congo/#PublicHealth #GlobalHealth #misinformation #ebola #outbreak #CDC

10 years later, Colten Boushie's family says stereotypes, mistruths still surround his death 10 years after Colten Boushie was shot and killed on a rural Saskatchewan farm, his family says there are few opportunities for healing. With every new article and social media post come hateful comments, often presented by people who are ignorant of the facts surrounding his death.

Even on X/Twitter, "users countering #misinformation are more established, more emotional, and have larger followings than accounts spreading false claims." https://viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2026/07/usc-researchers-discover-fake-news-spreaders-have-less-followers-than-users-pushing-back/ #SocialMedia, #Twitter

"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you." - Joseph Heller, Catch-22 My wife told me our younger son does not believe humans ever walked on the moon. My guess, based on prior conversations, is that he does believe UFOs carrying aliens from other worlds have visited Earth. I know he believes in supernatural events. His critical thinking skills are weak. I searched the internet for a quiz to assess one’s susceptibility to conspiratorial thinking and easily found a couple of them. I thought of asking my son to complete one and comparing his results to mine. Before proposing that to him, I decided to take the two quizzes myself. Although my susceptibility to conspiratorial thinking is less than average, I was surprised to test positive for some conspiratorial thinking, particularly about government influence by powerful persons. I quickly realized that answers suggesting my susceptibility to conspiratorial thinking were mostly informed by what I have observed during the last two years. So I retook the quizzes and answered the items based on my thinking just a couple years ago. My revised results then showed conspiracies to have little effect on my thinking. Perhaps thinking that would have been considered conspiratorial when the quizzes were designed (e.g., wealthy persons have excessive policy influence and suppress technology that could benefit society) is less conspiratorial today? #Catch22 #Conspiracy #Misinformation #Disinformation #Corruption #Politics #Government #Society

Shameful #RFKJr targets #Fauci & pushes #medical #misinformation in fiery CNN interview In attempting to rewrite the history of the #US #Covid-19 response, “Health” Secy Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Sunday pinned the blame for pandemic lockdowns on Dr. Anthony Fauci, while simultaneously reviving a string of debunked assertions about #vaccines, #RSV & #measles. #Trump #PublicHealth #science #medicine #PublicDisservice #eugenics #ConspiracyTheories #disinformation #USpol

…As #HHS secretary, Kennedy’s skepticism of mainstream #science is no longer just outsider rhetoric; it now shapes official federal #policy. His efforts to reframe the #pandemic’s legacy come as the #US battles its worst #measles resurgence in more than three decades — a crisis experts warn is fueled directly by the type of #vaccine #misinformation & institutional distrust #RFKJr amplified during the broadcast. #Trump #PublicHealth #medicine #eugenics #ConspiracyTheories #disinformation #USpol

Google Earth releases, swiftly retracts AI feature to make fake satellite images https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/google-earth-releases-swiftly-retracts-ai-feature-to-make-fake-satellite-images/ #AI #Tech #Misinformation

Google nixes its Earth AI feature one day after launch, amid criticism it would spread misinformation https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/31/google-nixes-its-earth-ai-feature-one-day-after-launch-amid-criticism-it-would-spread-misinformation/ #AI #Tech #Misinformation

Five decades of Israeli covert strategy to push US, Iran into confrontation "As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepares to meet US President Donald Trump, there is good reason to expect that he will use the meeting to discourage any move towards ending hostilities in the Gulf. This expectation is grounded in a historical record spanning more than five decades. Declassified intelligence, memoirs by senior American officials, investigative reporting, and academic scholarship further reinforce this assessment. Taken together, these sources point to a recurring pattern: successive Israeli governments, often with the support of elements within the country’s security establishment, have repeatedly sought to obstruct efforts to end regional conflicts or attempts to manage tension between the United States and Iran." Literally 50 years of "Ohh, they're 2 weeks away from having nukes, believe me, I'm an Israeli.." and the US have fell for it every single time. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/7/27/five-decades-of-israeli-covert-strategy-to-push-us-iran-into-confrontation #Manipulation #Corruption #Misinformation #BoycottIsrael #News #Activism #HumanRights #USPol

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Cyclospora Conspiracy Theories Have Social Media Users Jumping to Conclusions https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/business/media/cyclospora-social-media.html #Misinformation #SocialMedia #Health

Cyclospora Conspiracy Theories Have Social Media Users Jumping to Conclusions https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/business/media/cyclospora-social-media.html #Business #Misinformation #Health

Sunscreen doesn't cause cancer. Why do those claims keep spreading? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cy4kv8ezpdyo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss #Health #Science #Misinformation