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Social media is full of financial advice, but much of it is inaccurate.
Trust in brands may be eroded as awareness of misinformation increases according to new research.
Social media is designed to keep you engaged by getting a rise out of you, not help you think critically or take effective action on political issues.
Even people with years of relevant training can’t always tell whether social content is evidence-based and trustworthy. We need a better approach for communicating research.
How can fake news be managed without government overreach? Under the draft bill, platforms continue to be responsible for the content on their services – not governments.
The amount of content available online makes policing misinformation extremely difficult. But there are steps we can all take to better ensure the credibility of what we see online.
As elections approach – and even after they’re done – there’s a lot of confusing, and deliberately misleading, information out there. Learn how to protect yourself.
Anti-vaccine group moderators said Facebook provided an environment where they could safely offer support to others.
There’s a tension between facilitating free and fair debate on social media, and businesses’ bottom line. And it must be resolved with the public interest in mind.
Footage claiming to document the situation in Ukraine may not necessarily be genuine. Here’s how to treat viral footage with the right level of scepticism before sharing it on social media.
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Adjunct Instructor in Cybersecurity, Johns Hopkins University
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