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As long as fact checking verdicts don’t reach the same audiences as disinformation does, and reach them quickly, fact checking will never be a tool to fight against disinformation campaigns. Fact checking might be the weapon against politicians’ lies...

Would funding transparency help fight coordinated disinformation campaigns like the EU is planning to? Continue reading →

Before hallucinating text generators arrived to the scene we already had a few problems, like regulatory capture by the superhighway of disinformation, social media Continue reading →

The attention economy of social media and their refusal to accept the responsibility for what their algorithm does (edits everyone's front page of the internet, and a different one for everyone, prioritizing outrage to foster engagement) has created...