November 11, 2023

Philadelphia Inquirer: Deepfakes meet cheesesteaks as Steak-umm rolls out a provocative marketing campaign

Philadelphia Inquirer: Deepfakes meet cheesesteaks as Steak-umm rolls out a provocative marketing campaign. “Steak-umm is using this video for a new ad campaign, rolled out Oct. 31. But the West Chester-based food company is not using it to sell frozen steak slabs. It is sharing an entirely different message. It wants to demonstrate the sinister side of artificial intelligence. The four-minute video of the ‘carnivorous’ vegans is a deepfake.”

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October 17, 2023

Romania Insider: European Commission in Romania launches anti-disinformation platform

Romania Insider: European Commission in Romania launches anti-disinformation platform. “The platform, named ‘trUE – The Naked Truth’ (trUE – Adevărul gol-goluț), aims to support the general public with useful tools for identifying fake news and information distributed online with the intent to misinform. It brings together articles, case studies, and video materials produced in collaboration with influencers, as well as educational materials that can be used in classroom settings.”

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October 5, 2023

Cincinnati Edition: A new tool to protect cryptocurrency investors (UC Cincinnati)

UC Cincinnati: Cincinnati Edition: A new tool to protect cryptocurrency investors. “A 10-question survey, which is open source and available for any institution to use for free to measure the cryptoeconomics knowledge of their clients or population base, measures users’ knowledge about cryptoeconomics. A higher score represents a greater understanding of cryptoeconomics. The average score has been six, Jones said, with 40% of people scoring less than a five.”

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October 3, 2023

Politico: Nonprofit group plans ad campaign using AI misinfo to fight AI misinfo

Politico: Nonprofit group plans ad campaign using AI misinfo to fight AI misinfo. “A new initiative is planning to use AI-generated misinformation to try to prepare voters against a possible wave of similar content. AIandYou, a nonprofit founded in 2019 to help underrepresented racial and ethnic groups understand AI, is launching the public awareness campaign to educate voters on how AI could affect next year’s election, according to details first shared with POLITICO.”

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October 1, 2023

Combating Distrust Online: New GW Study Explains Why Current Messaging Efforts May Not Be Effective (George Washington University)

George Washington University: Combating Distrust Online: New GW Study Explains Why Current Messaging Efforts May Not Be Effective. “New research led by the George Washington University finds that current mitigation efforts to combat distrust online may not be effective because organizations and governments tackling distrust are only targeting one topic and only one geographical scale. The study shows that online distrust has become a ‘glocal’ phenomenon, meaning that it is spreading with different topics lumped together and mixing both local and global interests.”

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September 12, 2023

Cornell University: Library gets grant to raise algorithmic literacy

Cornell University: Library gets grant to raise algorithmic literacy. “Cornell University Library has been awarded a grant by the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) to support a project aimed at creating open educational resources on algorithmic literacy—building the public’s knowledge about what algorithms are, how they function, and how they shape modern life.”

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August 24, 2023

University of Mississippi: UM Launching Nation’s First Center for Narrative Intelligence

University of Mississippi: UM Launching Nation’s First Center for Narrative Intelligence. “The Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning has approved the creation of a new National Center for Narrative Intelligence at the University of Mississippi, the first of its kind in the country. Narrative intelligence – a human and artificial intelligence-driven process that analyzes large amounts of data to derive meaning, trends and outcomes is particularly useful in identifying the patterns and flow of misinformation and disinformation. It has broad professional applications in various fields including journalism, health care, national security and public policy.”

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August 21, 2023

University of Wisconsin-Madison: Study Finds Teens, Young Adults Benefit From Clinician Advice About Safe Social Media Use

University of Wisconsin-Madison: Study Finds Teens, Young Adults Benefit From Clinician Advice About Safe Social Media Use. “Teens and young adults who received a brief social media counseling session during a health care visit remembered the lessons and reported safer online behavior six months later, according to a large new study from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.”

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August 18, 2023

Washington University in St. Louis: Maragh-Lloyd wins grant to study influence campaigns

Washington University in St. Louis: Maragh-Lloyd wins grant to study influence campaigns. “Raven Maragh-Lloyd, an assistant professor of African and African American studies in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, will serve as co-principal investigator for a $1.7 million grant investigating how online influence campaigns, both foreign and domestic, manipulate the fundamental structures and relationships upon which social media is built.”

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August 18, 2023

International Journalists’ Network: How to respond to disinformation spread on social media

International Journalists’ Network: How to respond to disinformation spread on social media. “The path that disinformation often follows is like a trumpet: it begins in small circles, such as Telegram and WhatsApp groups, or other smaller social networks. As it gains traction, it moves to more open platforms, such as Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, among others. Identifying the spaces in which disinformation circulates can buy us time to prepare before the harmful narratives hit the big social networks and reach hundreds of thousands more people.”

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August 14, 2023

Route Fifty: More states look to boost kids’ social media literacy

Route Fifty: More states look to boost kids’ social media literacy . “The push for greater social media literacy is in keeping with several states’ efforts to boost the overall digital literacy of their young people, something that has caught on in states like Illinois, New Jersey and others amid worries about misinformation and a lack of civic online reasoning.”

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August 4, 2023

Cornell University: Fact-checking can influence recommender algorithms

Cornell University: Fact-checking can influence recommender algorithms. “J. Nathan Matias, assistant professor of communication in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, conducted an experiment with a community of 14 million on Reddit, and found that encouraging people to participate in knowledge-gathering could, in fact, move an algorithm’s needle. Suggesting that community members fact-check suspect stories, he found, led to those stories being dropped in Reddit’s rankings.”

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