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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Inside Google’s Plans to Combat Election Misinformation  TIME Source link

ChatGPT has surged in popularity over recent months.Thinkhubstudio/Getty Images Education officials are trying to stop students from using OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Several school districts have banned the bot, citing fears of plagiarism and false information. Universities in India and France have also taken steps to stop the use of ChatGPT. Schools are taking steps to stop students from using OpenAI’s ChatGPT to cheat. Earlier this month, the New York City Department of Education blocked the chatbot… Source link

Google has announced a new initiative aimed at addressing the spread of misinformation in India, which has been blamed for the rise of violence in the country.  The latest initiative from Google’s subsidiary, Jigsaw, will use a “prebunking” video feature in an effort to stop false claims before they become more widespread, according to Reuters.  Jigsaw is also working with partners such as the German-based pro-democracy organization Alfred Landecker Foundation and… Source link

PayPal has backtracked on a published policy that would have fined users $2,500 for spreading “misinformation,” claiming the update had gone out “in error.” “An AUP notice recently went out in error that included incorrect information. PayPal is not fining people for misinformation and this language was never intended to be inserted in our policy. Our teams are working to correct our policy pages. We’re sorry for the confusion this has caused,” a spokesperson told National… Source link

In the fight against online misinformation, falsehoods have key advantages: They crop up fast and spread at the speed of electrons, and there is a lag period before fact checkers can debunk them. So researchers at Google, the University of Cambridge and the University of Bristol tested a different approach that tries to undermine misinformation before people see it. They call it “pre-bunking.” The researchers found that psychologically “inoculating” internet users against lies and… Source link

Google is adding features to its search engine to combat misinformation. (Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images) NurPhoto via Getty Images In 2014, if you were to Google “King of the United States,” you would have seen a picture of Barack Obama, yelling passionately into a microphone while at a podium. That’s not true, of course. But Google proclaimed it with authority after surfacing a Breitbart article entitled, “All Hail King Barack Obama, Emperor Of The… Source link

The team behind Google Search is tweaking its featured snippets — the text boxes that sometimes spread false information while trying to offer help. The company announced an update that’s supposed to make answers more accurate and avoid the problem of false premises, or questions where no definitive-sounding answer would make sense. It’s paired with an expansion in Google’s “about this result” option and warnings for low-quality data voids, as well as a new partnership on… Source link

Mozilla has removed the Yandex Search, Mail.ru, and OK.ru default search providers from the Firefox browser over reports of state-sponsored content favored in search results. These sites are three of the most popular websites in Russia, used by over a hundred million users per month. Since 2014, Mozilla has made Yandex the default search engine in Russia, and the following year made it the default search for users in Turkey. With today’s release of Firefox 98.0.1, Mozilla announced that… Source link

Progressive Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) told Yahoo Finance in an exclusive interview that Facebook (FB) and other U.S. companies have “sabotaged” the global response to COVID-19 by spreading disinformation about the virus.  The tech giant, which recently changed its name to Meta, should “be broken up” because it exploits its overlapping lines of business as a platform, vendor, and advertiser, Ocasio-Cortez added in the wide-ranging remarks. “There are some things that the… Source link

Fox News host and right-wing commentator Dan Bongino won’t be able to upload anything to his YouTube channel for a week, according to Forbes and The Hill. The website has temporarily suspended his account over COVID-19 misinformation, specifically for saying masks are useless in preventing the coronavirus’ spread. YouTube updated its rules in 2020 to prohibit “content about COVID-19 that poses a serious risk of egregious harm.” It doesn’t permit videos with medical misinformation that… Source link