Reading Time: 3 minutes Social media campaign co-created by U of A’s Timothy Caulfield aims to help people find credible information online
Tag: Fake news
#ScienceUpFirst turning the tide on COVID-19 misinformation online
Reading Time: 3 minutes U of A health law and policy professor Timothy Caulfield teams up with other evidence-informed influencers for social media campaign
Truth, lies and the insidious rise of “misinformation”
Reading Time: 4 minutes Political debate has become sanctimonious lecturing, with one side refusing to accept even the possibility that they might be wrong
To protect democracy, we must protect local media
Reading Time: 3 minutes Our 21st-century reliance on tech giants to supply us with information has resulted in fake news, clickbait and polarized societies
Just the facts? Don’t count on fact-checkers
Reading Time: 4 minutes A closer look at almost every fact-checking organization shows a great deal of politics and vested interests involved
A KGB guide to subverting the press to your agenda
Reading Time: 4 minutes The methods of a former KGB operative remain applicable in the modern era, leading to disinformation and outright lies
Fake news? Every era had its perpetrators
Reading Time: 5 minutes Early newspapers were often more interested in expressing the opinions of the owners than the facts
Racist cop shows, biased news fuel public fears of crime
Reading Time: 4 minutes Portrayals of violent crime in pop culture and media are skewing people’s perception of how likely it is to happen to them, says U of A expert
Could BBC subscription reform work at CBC?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Once a subscription model is implemented, BBC will only survive if it produces content people actually want to watch
How far should we go to stop the social media chaos?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Maybe the problem isn’t the mischief-makers who are planting claims. Maybe it’s the social media themselves that are the problem