False news spreads ‘significantly’ further and faster than the truth on social media, new landmark study finds
A landmark study of some 126,000 Twitter posts has found that false news on social media spreads “significantly” further and…
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Twitter has found 49 accounts linked to a notorious Russian “troll factory” which were sending out messages about the Brexit…
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Mail Online’s use of ‘push him’ suicide tweet in report did not breach man’s privacy, IPSO rules
A man whose tweet saying a suicidal man should be pushed off a motorway bridge was published by Mail Online…
By Twitter criticised for failing to give ‘straight answers’ to UK fake news inquiry
Twitter has been criticised for failing to give “straight answers” to the parliamentary probe into alleged Russian interference in the…
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‘Inoculating’ social media users against ‘fake news’ will help filter it out, MPs told
The best way to fight so-called fake news is by “inoculating” social media users against online propaganda, MPs have been…
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Iranian state news agency uses Twitter to identify pro-democracy protesters putting them at risk of ‘torture or worse’
An Iranian state news agency, Tasnim, has used its verified Twitter account to identify protesters from the recent unrest in…
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MPs to head to Washington DC in New Year as part of UK ‘fake news’ inquiry
MPs from the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee will visit Washington DC in February next year as part…
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Bloomberg launches ‘world first’ global news network on Twitter
Bloomberg and Twitter have teamed up to launch what they claim is the world’s first global social news network. Tictoc…
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