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"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.

OpenAI announces partnerships to combat election misinformation, offering cybersecurity products to state officials and backing legislation to curb deepfakes (Maria Curi/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/27/openai-cyber-misinformation-defenses-elections

Exclusive: OpenAI readies cyber, misinformation defenses ahead of elections
OpenAI is offering its cybersecurity products to state officials and backing legislation ahead of elections in the U.S. and globally.

Indeed
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/28/still-on-x-ask-yourself-why-platform-twitter-malign-actors-misinformation?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

If you’re still on Elon Musk’s X, ask yourself this: why?
Some argue that quitting the platform formerly known as Twitter cedes the space to malign actors. But it’s an open sewer, beyond redemption, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

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

"The Electoral Commission has called for new legal controls over misinformation from AI chatbots, after a thinktank found they had made serious mistakes during the recent Scottish election.
The thinktank Demos said its investigation had found that AI services gave voters misinformation to 34% of the questions it posed"
#ScotPol

It’s been more than five years since the election,
the results already had been investigated multiple times,
and the ballots had been counted, recounted, and recounted again.
The lie that the 2020 election was stolen has persisted.
And the “Stop the Steal” movement’s most ardent believers now hold unprecedented positions of power,
including on the once-sleepy State Election Board in the important swing state of Georgia.
A lawyer known for his willingness …

Déjà vote: “Stop the Steal” never stopped
Election lies fuel an FBI raid and a push to rewrite voting laws as the 2026 midterms approach.

The Onion plans to lease Alex Jones’s Infowars after judge blocks purchase
The satirical website’s parent company will have to pay $81,000 a month to the misinformation platform
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/20/the-onion-alex-jones-infowars

The Onion plans to lease Alex Jones’s Infowars after judge blocks purchase
The satirical website’s parent company will have to pay $81,000 a month to the misinformation platform

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.

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

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/

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.

WPP, Dentsu, and Publicis settle with the FTC over claims they colluded on misinformation policies that denied ad revenue to conservative publishers (David McCabe/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/technology/ftc-ad-companies-settlement.html

Ad Companies Settle With F.T.C. Over Claims of Harm to Conservative Sites
WPP, Dentsu and Publicis settled claims they colluded on policies to combat misinformation, denying ad revenue to publishers on the right.

Electoral Commission says ministers should introduce clearer duties on AI platforms to protect voters against misinformation and ensure algorithms did not mislead voters, particularly during critical election periods. The problem is that AI platforms *can't do that*. LLMs can answer "what's the received wisdom about this programming topic?" because they've scraped all of Stack Overflow, but they don't *know* anything, especially not about news.

WPP, Dentsu, and Publicis settle with the FTC over claims they colluded on misinformation policies that denied ad revenue to conservative publishers (David McCabe/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/technology/ftc-ad-companies-settlement.html

Ad Companies Settle With F.T.C. Over Claims of Harm to Conservative Sites
WPP, Dentsu and Publicis settled claims they colluded on policies to combat misinformation, denying ad revenue to publishers on the right.

Mela is listening to a podcast: The Hidden Social Forces Behind Misinformation – Misguided - The Podcast – Matthew Facciani - https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1792074637

The existence of truth tables implies the existence of falsehood sofas, opinion chairs, and misinformation footrests.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@jtk/116421586624634345
Misinformation (along with disinfo and propaganda) exist not just in the geopolitical space. It crops up regularly in tech communities as well. Push back on it.
If you are at all annoyed by yet anothe…

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.

"How an army of volunteers is fighting climate misinformation online"
#Climate #ClimateChange

How an army of volunteers is fighting climate misinformation online
Instead of arguing with trolls, they’re amplifying the truth.

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/
…

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.

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 🇺🇦

Hantavirus misinformation runs rampant as the US is unequipped to respond to infectious disease health scare (Melody Schreiber/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/may/08/hantavirus-global-heath-scare
http://www.memeorandum.com/260509/p17#a260509p17

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

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

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.

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

"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…

Joe Rogan used to just host our Fear Factors. Now he spreads dangerous fucking misinformation to millions of other fools

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 🤣

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.

"Sri Lankan ‘Grifters’ Pumping Out AI ‘Energy Policy Rage Bait’ on UK Facebook Feeds"
#SriLanka #Facebook #SocialMedia

Sri Lankan ‘Grifters’ Pumping Out AI ‘Energy Policy Rage Bait’ on UK Facebook Feeds Sri Lankan ‘Grifters’ Pumping Out AI ‘Energy Policy Rage Bait’ on UK Facebook Feeds
Experts say mass-produced AI misinformation is the “new Cambridge Analytica scandal”.

BC's Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act was a huge step forward for Reconciliation in Canada – but now BC Premier David Eby is caving to misinformation about it from the far right. His actions not only threaten First Nations rights in BC, but a risk for the Indigenous rights movement across Canada.

https://www.bc…

Uphold the Declaration Act | British Columbia Assembly of First Nations

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

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.

"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"

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."

"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