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This is how many people are consuming fake news online | World Economic ...
People who read fake news online aren’t doomed to fall into an echo chamber, according to a new study, with only 2.8% of online readers consuming fake news exclusively. An echo chamber is where online users only see, hear and read content that aligns with their own ideology. 97% of online readers have a diverse news intake and people who read ...
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The four key ways disinformation is spread online - The World Economic ...
Yet it has also allowed disinformation and so-called fake news campaigns to proliferate and flourish. Disinformation—which includes false and out-of-context information spread with the intent to deceive or mislead—is largely propagated by people looking to distort public opinion and advance particular agendas.
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Global Risks Report 2024 - The World Economic Forum
Global Risks 2024: At a turning point. The Global Risks Report analyses global risks over one-, two- and 10-year horizons to support decision-makers in adopting a dual vision that balances short- and longer-term risks. This chapter addresses the outlook for the first two time frames and examines selected risks that are likely to heighten by 2026.
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This video of Mark Zuckerberg shows how hard it is to deal with fake news
Emerging Technologies. A new deepfake video shows Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg saying words he never spoke. The video – posted to Instagram and created by artists Bill Posters and Daniel Howe with advertising company Canny – was based off of a real video of Zuckerberg from 2017. To create the deepfake, Canny trained a proprietary ...
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How Finland is fighting fake news - The World Economic Forum
Finland has an effective weapon to combat fake news: education. The Nordic nation tops a list of European countries deemed the most resilient to disinformation, the Media Literacy Index, compiled by the Open Society Institute in Sofia. Denmark was second, followed by the Netherlands, Sweden and Estonia. Macedonia, Turkey and Albania were bottom ...
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4 ways to future-proof against deepfakes in 2024 and beyond
Research has shown that media literacy is a powerful skill that has the potential to protect society against AI-powered disinformation, by reducing a person’s willingness to share deepfakes. 4. Zero-trust mindset. In cybersecurity, the “zero-trust” approach means not trusting anything by default and instead verifying everything.
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The real value in media - The World Economic Forum
In an age of fake news and misinformation, good quality content is more valuable than ever. So who’s creating it, who’s paying for it and who's controlling its production? As the world battles coronavirus, the value in media and the integrity of the role that media plays in our lives has never been more relevant.
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Fake news: What it is, and how to spot it | World Economic Forum
One of the central challenges of fake news is that it places the onus to verify stories on the reader, who could be a person without the time, energy or resources to do so. You’re the detective now. Image: IFLA. 2016 marked a turning point for awareness as Oxford Dictionaries said its Word of the Year was “post-truth”, defined as ...
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How to spot fake news on your social networks - The World Economic Forum
For this, we used more than 92,000 pieces of fake news content divided into seven categories: clickbait, conspiracy theories, fake news, hate speech, junk science, reliable sources and rumours. We then compared these with real news in terms of evocation to emotions and cognitive effort. The fingerprints of misinformation.
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Fake online reviews cost $152 billion a year. Here's how e-commerce ...
This problem can be further broken down into the impact of fake reviews on review-influenced e-commerce in some of the biggest e-commerce countries. Fake online reviews influence $791 billion of e-commerce spending annually in the US, $6.4 billion in Japan, $5 billion in the UK, $2.3 billion in Canada and $900 million in Australia.
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