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Jan 20
1 min

Spot Fake News Workshop

Fake News works best when put within a context we expect to see it. For example, if you saw a headline that read “Calvin Klein to release...

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Jan 15
1 min

Bots 101

Besides millions of people on social media, there are also millions of bots. Bots are automated accounts that help share fake news, getti...

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Jan 7
1 min

Fake news is a global crisis

But governments can not contain fake news alone. Large corporations are beginning to regulate the sharing of fake news on their platforms...

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Dec 17, 2020
1 min

Fake news throughout history

It wasn’t so many years ago that H.G. Wells read his War of the Worlds story on a live radio broadcast. People tuning in thought his fict...

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Stop Fake News

Dec 9, 2020
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Fake news on the rise on social media

Americans are getting their news from social media more and more. According to a recent study by Pew Research Center, 43% of American adu...

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Government agencies create "Rumor Control" pages to address fake news

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Dec 8, 2020
1 min

Government agencies create "Rumor Control" pages to address fake news

Fake news is out there. So much so that many government agencies have created entire teams to deal with it. Most notably, the Cybersecuri...

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Future of "Rumor Control" uncertain after CISA Director Chris Krebs' firing

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Dec 2, 2020
1 min

Future of "Rumor Control" uncertain after CISA Director Chris Krebs' firing

Ahead of the 2020 election, Director of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Chris Krebs anticipated an influx of fake...

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FBI says foreign actors are likely to spread disinformation regarding the 2020 election

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Nov 30, 2020
1 min

FBI says foreign actors are likely to spread disinformation regarding the 2020 election

The FBI issued a warning on September 22, 2020 that "Foreign actors and cybercriminals could exploit the time required to certify and ann...

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