Social media platforms remove fewer than 1 in 10 posts reported for coronavirus misinformation. Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are failing to take action against more than 9 in 10 posts containing misinformation about coronavirus which […]
Guest blog by Dr Daniel Allington Delaying or avoiding vaccination costs lives, and yet, for many years, increasing numbers of people have been doing one or both of those things. My colleagues and I have […]
Summary: Google has told the Commons Digital, Culture, Media & Sport Select Committee that they take misinformation seriously and that they act quickly on sites making money from Fake News on their AdSense platform. This […]
Guest post by Dr Siobhan McAndrew with Dr Daniel Allington Polling commissioned from YouGov for the Center for Countering Digital Hate’s recent report, The Anti-Vaxx Industry, surveyed attitudes in Britain and the US towards a […]
Rampant misinformation on social media could yet be the fatal flaw that undermines a coronavirus vaccine. Polling by YouGov for the Center for Countering Digital Hate shows that 31 per cent of Brits would be […]
Voice of Europe, infamous for its Islamophobic and anti-migrant content, has announced it is closing down after Stop Funding Fake News persuaded advertisers to boycott the site. Advertising technology giants like Google knowingly place adverts […]
Conspiracy theorists are using a new chat app to ‘gamify’ the spread of dangerous misinformation including coronavirus conspiracies, Holocaust denial and far right racism. Thousands of users frequent ‘servers’ on Discord, a voice and text […]
Figures on Britain’s far-right including Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (aka Tommy Robinson) and Jayda Fransen have adopted key themes from a hate campaign in India blaming Muslims for coronavirus. A campaign of viral posts and videos bearing […]
New government-backed advice has been published by the Center for Countering Digital (CCDH), a not-for-profit organisation, on what members of the public should do if they encounter misinformation about Covid-19 online. The ‘Don’t Spread The […]