Podcast: Oxford Sparks How is misinformation about the war in Ukraine spreading?
post,
20 April 2022
Press: Joe Rogan, Spotify: how tech firms tackle Covid misinformation
2 February 2022
Why is misleading and false information on the coronavirus pandemic so widespread online, and what are tech platforms doing to tackle it? This Thomson Reuters Foundation News piece offers some answers.
“Covid misinformation isn’t an easy thing to tackle,” said Anna George, a researcher on democracy and technology at the Oxford Internet Institute, noting the challenge of even defining what constitutes online harm.
Related Content
Who is afraid of fake news? Modeling risk perceptions of misinformation in 142 countries
research,
12 April 2022
Press: RT America, You Were Very Weird and Bad
post,
28 March 2022
Press: University of Edinburgh academic Tim Hayward accused of spreading propaganda
post,
22 March 2022