Month: September 2022

The new 'Cerenkov' robot will automatically check if the amount of spent nuclear fuel in the reactor pond matches the declared data./CGTN/Johannes Pleschberger The new 'Cerenkov' robot will automatically check if the amount of spent nuclear fuel in the reactor pond matches the declared data./CGTN/Johannes Pleschberger The UN's nuclear watchdog IAEA has presented new surveillance…

Tyranny has had a makeover. It’s no longer a boot stamping on a human face forever. It isn’t a gruff, gurning cop dragging you into a cell for thinking or expressing a ‘dangerous’ idea. It isn’t a priest strapping you to a breaking wheel. No, authoritarianism is well-dressed now. It’s polite. It has a broad…

According to Meta on Tuesday, a vast misinformation network with its roots in Russia attempted to promote Kremlin talking points regarding the invasion of Ukraine using hundreds of phony social media accounts and dozens of fake news websites.   Deactivated The business, which owns Facebook and Instagram, claimed to have discovered and stopped the operation…

Russia's disinformation campaigns will try to undermine Europeans' support for Ukraine amid rising energy pieces and inflation, several MEPs warned on Thursday (29 September)."Unable to win the military war in Ukraine, [Russian president Vladimir] Putin will try to win politically here, by subverting the public debate and by imposing defeatist narratives," French MEP Raphaël Glucksmann…

T-Online.com and Meta have uncovered a broad-based Russian disinformation campaign that worked centrally with fake newspaper websites and a network of fake accounts on social media such as Facebook and Instagram. Sanctions abandonment as a goal? As part of the disinformation campaign, websites were set up in the design of well-known newspapers. For example, websites…

With roosters crowing in the background as he speaks from the crowded refugee camp in Bangladesh that’s been his home since 2017, Maung Sawyeddollah, 21, describes what happened when violent hate speech and disinformation targeting the Rohingya minority in Myanmar began to spread on Facebook.“We were good with most of the people there. But some…

Notes Radar is a project which uses a combination of algorithms and manual research to find posts related to three themes over a wide variety of social media platforms in Brazil. This allows Aos Fatos to map out the flow of disinformation and make predictions.Researchers feed linguistic clues into the algorithmic tools, and they surface…

If you’re on Twitter and follow news about China, you likely have heard a pretty wild rumor recently: that President Xi Jinping was under house arrest and that there was about to be a major power grab in the country. First of all, let’s be very clear: this report is false and should not be…

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) welcomes the release of reports exposing the drug industry’s disinformation campaign attacking the 340B Drug Pricing Program. Ryan White Clinics for 340B Access last week published a rebuttal against the plethora of so-called ‘studies’ whose authors have financial ties to the drug industry. Ryan White Clinics for 340B Access (https://rwc340b.org/),…