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Misinformation and disinformation continue to shape public debate in Canada, erode trust in institutions, and put pressure on our democratic systems.
On Tuesday, February 24, from 12 to 1 pm ET, Evidence for Democracy is hosting a public webinar to unpack the findings of our new report, The Misinformation Challenge: Rebuilding Trust in a Post-Truth World.

AI tools used in a medical context are easily fooled by misinformation that's delivered in an authoritative tone.
That’s the finding of a recent study published in The Lancet Digital Health which assessed the outputs of 20 LLMs used in a medical context, including models specially trained on medical data.

Medical AIs easily fooled by authoritative misinformation, study
AI tools used in a medical context are easily fooled by misinformation delivered in an authoritative tone.

NewsGuard launches an AI content farm detection tool in partnership with Pangram Labs, which says it's seeing 300 to 500 of these sites emerge each month (Kendra Barnett/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/newsguard-tracking-ai-slop-content-farms/
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EXCLUSIVE: NewsGuard Taps Startup Pangram to Identify AI-Generated News and Misinformation
A new AI-powered tool created by Pangram can spot AI-generated misinformation posing as reputable news.

Feds face lawsuit over travel ban for foreign misinformation researchers | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/feds-face-lawsuit-over-travel-ban-for-foreign-misinformation-researchers/

Google's AI overviews give wrong answers 9% of the time (1.25 billion times a day), and in over half of the cases point to websites that don't actually support the answer given.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-ai-overviews-misinforma…

Analysis Finds That Google’s AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization
A new analysis commissioned by The New York Times suggests that Google's AI Overviews are wrong an astonishing percentage of the time.

Meta's Oversight Board calls for an AI content moderation overhaul, saying current methods are not "comprehensive enough" to handle misinformation in a conflict (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/891933/meta-

Meta’s deepfake moderation isn’t good enough, says Oversight Board
Meta’s methods for identifying deepfakes are “not robust or comprehensive enough” to handle how quickly misinformation spreads during armed conflicts.

"How to spot climate misinformation on social media"
#Climate #ClimateChange #SocialMedia

How to spot climate misinformation on social media
Yale Climate Connections is a nonpartisan, multimedia service providing daily broadcast radio programming and original web-based reporting, commentary, and analysis on the issue of climate change.

Explosive Misinformation: A Guide to Mushroom Clouds, ‘Sonic Weapons’ and Disintegration - bellingcat https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2026/03/30/explosive-misinformation-a-guide-to-mushroom-clouds-sonic-weap…

Explosive Misinformation: A Guide to Mushroom Clouds, ‘Sonic Weapons’ and Disintegration - bellingcat
Explosives test in Canada. Source: Defence Research and Development Canada.

Meta's Oversight Board calls for an AI content moderation overhaul, saying current methods are not "comprehensive enough" to handle misinformation in a conflict (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/891933/meta-

Meta’s deepfake moderation isn’t good enough, says Oversight Board
Meta’s methods for identifying deepfakes are “not robust or comprehensive enough” to handle how quickly misinformation spreads during armed conflicts.

SBS Examines Iha Lian Tetum
A podcast dedicated to countering misinformation and disinformation that affect Australia’s social cohesion, especially among multicultural and multilingual communities...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/sbs-ex

Google's AI Summaries seem to be remarkably honest about "Google News", maybe management there will listen to them after a decade of not listening to the same complaints from the public
#google #www #news

Chaos in Minneapolis Exposes an Internet at War With Truth (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/technology/minneapolis-ai-disinformation-misinformation-truth.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260203/p71#a260203p71

"Fake news on everything from whales to wind farms: Australia is flooded with climate misinformation"
#Australia #Climate #ClimateChange

Fake news on everything from whales to wind farms: Australia is flooded with climate misinformation
Disinformation is everywhere: AI-based material was even used to generate some of false claims in submissions to the inquiry into misinformation.

Shout outs to both blue sky and mastodon in this morning's @eurcorrespond.bsky.social on network effects, plus the role of misinformation in #TheWarOnWind which is seriously starting to hamper the green transition, and how Europe's economic heart is migrating S E.
"Denmark generates 54% of its electricity from wind while maintaining a GDP per capita of $71,026 (the 12th highest globally)"
https://newsletter-cdn.europeancorrespondent.com/go/rr03kj8tcubn00ufgk463ev9dgptv6k2fwm8k0occ6wh/2866

This is the first time that the U.S. has applied sophisticated genomic techniques to measles,
which largely disappeared from the country a quarter-century ago because of broad vaccine uptake.
Declining vaccination rates, misinformation, and the Trump administration’s budget cuts and lagging response to outbreaks have fueled a resurgence of the disease.
With at least 2,285 cases in 44 states, 2025 was the worst year for measles in more than three decades.
This year is…

Inside the Effort to Sequence a Thousand Measles Genomes
Understanding the genetics of circulating viruses will determine if the U.S. loses measles elimination status this year.

The Trump administration proposes cutting CISA's budget for 2027 by $707M to help the agency refocus on its "core mission", not "weaponization and waste" (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/07/cisa-bud…

Trump administration plans to cut cybersecurity agency's budget by $700 million | TechCrunch
The budget proposal would force CISA to operate with a significantly lower budget than previous years, citing the government's claims that the election misinformation programs were used to "target the President."

Shyster Dale Vince is still peddling misinformation about heat pumps.
Factcheck: What it really costs to heat a home in the UK with a heat pump - Carbon Brief https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-what-it-really-costs-to-heat-a-home-in-th…

Factcheck: What it really costs to heat a home in the UK with a heat pump - Carbon Brief
This factcheck explains how heat pumps can cut bills, what the latest data shows about potential savings

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang says growing hostility toward AI has become “extremely hurtful” and warns that misinformation and fear around the technology may slow innovation and progress
Poor baby 🤣

"What to do when the ‘public good’ of information goes bad
The creation and dissemination of reliable news is at an economic disadvantage" (paywalled ft.com boo)
Opinion Misinformation Martin Wolf
suggests subsidizing info creation, then goes to BBC, skips libraries which pay billions a year.
why skip libraries? Could be because we are not as effective as in the past cuz digital licensing schemes of big publishers so are largely irrelevant to our info environ…

"‘Denial machine’: climate misinformation is fuelling conflict in Australian communities, inquiry finds"
#Australia #Climate #ClimateChange

Please don't spread misinformation. It was an anvil, not a piano.

Das gilt auch für mich ⬇️
https://chaos.social/@scy/116324686527719601

"Mantello characterized Flock opposition as anti-police ... declared a state of emergency allowing her to mobilize whatever city resources are needed to continue paying Flock for use of its technology .... "
Small-town yokel mayors know that 2% of the entire electorate showing to protest something (not just to vote, but physically showing up out in the street) is "a small but highly vocal group [...] much of it rooted in intimidation tactics and misinformation"

Remember that Cat sometimes makes mistakes. Be sure to double check the misinformation they provide you.

From Evidence for Democracy
On 28 January 2025, Commissioner Marie-Josee Hogue held a press conference on the Foreign Interference Commission’s final report, where she identified misinformation as the single greatest existential threat to Canadian democracy. Our research team at Evidence for Democracy carried out a broad review of the state of misinformation in Canada, and what we can do to rebuild public trust in Canada’s democracy.

Imagine there were no smartphones with cameras and social media, then ICE/DHS would completely get away with all their lies and misinformation. The federal government statements in the US feel like the Soviet-Union for those people old enough to remember that. Local media and civilian observers are doing a great job.
#minneapolis

I've now had AI bots impersonate high-profile people I know and engage me in a DM chat that was initially passable on both Bluesky and Mastodon. Be careful out there folks. And if the account is new with few followers, that's a big tell.
https://www.

Honestly, the whole #Microslop “morge" debacle throws into question the entire Learn platform.
How much of it is actually helpful content, and how much is generated junk to meet A.I. goals so folks can get promotions and bonuses?
We find ourselves in a terrible time for improving. Some devs are trying to learn, but they're being led down a path of misinformation.

AI could only truly be considered 'intelligent' if it can prove its worth by reliably distinguishing real information from fake and misinformation.

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Ukraine Update: Information warfare is happening all around you.
People believing misinformation are legion, and they are useful idiots for the Epstein class.
Friend link bypasses the paywall: https://medium.com/@giorgioprovinciali

Anti-Semitism and Russian ‘Active Measures’
Live from Ukraine 🇺🇦

The Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC)
names Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino directly in a statement:
"In the hours following the shooting, U.S. Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino held a press conference
asserting that the operation was targeting an individual named Jose Huerta-Chuma
and characterized him as having a significant criminal history.
Because federal statements have repeatedly included inaccurate information about Minnesota custody an…

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From David Suzuki
The David Suzuki Foundation has been informed of several fake news stories, ads and videos circulating online that falsely claim to be endorsed by David Suzuki or the David Suzuki Foundation.
With the rise in AI-generated misinformation, it is increasingly difficult to determine if the content you see online is real or not.
These fake ads often link to websites selling products, sharing disinformation or promoting financial scams.
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On the Mones
Where pharmacist, menopause myth-buster, and accidental midlife icon Kate Thomas breaks down the chaos of hormones, perimenopause, ageing, wellness woo, and the medical misinformation flooding your feed...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/on-the

How did we exchange information before photography,
before print,
even before writing?
How was truth represented in a world of stories, myths and oral traditions?
For most of human history,
truth wasn’t a fixed point;
it was negotiated within a tribe,
verified by proximity,
and sustained by trust.
In that sense,
we may be returning to an ancient condition:
truth as local, not universal.
This isn’t necessarily the apoc…

AI photo art raises question: What comes after ‘seeing is believing’? 
In the age of AI, photographs no longer express truth. That doesn’t make them any less meaningful.

I just took Leadnow's survey to share my thoughts on CBC cuts.
Misinformation is rising & local news coverage is disappearing, the federal government is proposing to cut the CBC’s budget by $192m next year. Funding decisions for the CBC will be made in the coming months so there’s still a chance to fight back against these funding cuts. Leadnow’s power comes from our community. We want to hear from you to help decide what to do. Take the quick 4-question survey now.

The BBC running damage control on its own broadcast is wild to witness. The most egregious part of the affair to me is that no one from BAFTA or the BBC even bothered to apologize to Michael B Jordan and Delroy Lindo when they got off the stage, let alone tell *them* what was going to be done about it. There was no effort to bring the three people involved together for resolution at the time of the incident, nothing.
But the other part of this that just grates on me with every article is the BBC trying to defend itself by saying “that another racial slur had been edited out of the broadcast.”
#BBC #BAFTA #Racism #FreePalestine #Israel #Gaza #Palestine #misinformation #disinformation #complicity
https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/09/1165835

"However, for the vast majority of mathematics research results, only a few experts are equipped to properly evaluate their novelty and significance. This evaluation gap has enabled misinformation about AI-generated mathematics to spread unchecked in popular media."
'Evaluation gap' is auch ein schöner Euphemismus für "niemand will sich den ganzen KI output durchlesen...
via: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.10177v3