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The new threat – blackmailers in the service of Russia to sway the election

From tearful posts with babies and wounded soldiers to attempts to undermine elections – this is how Russian and Chinese influence operators use fake AI-generated images to identify the innocent and target them with dangerous messages
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AI-based chatbots provide false health information up to 90% of the time

First-of-its-kind study finds leading AI systems can be easily programmed to spread misinformation about health issues – including false references to scientific sources
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Before the US elections: how can we identify "fake news"?

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How I Fooled the World - Then I Created Conspiracytron: The Conspiracy Slayer

Please meet the Conspiratron: The Conspiracy Slayer. An artificial intelligence tool that will help you deal with many different arguments of conspirators.
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Fake news during war: how will we identify and deal with false news?

Dr. Sandrin Bodna, Head of the Department of Communication at Tel Aviv University, gives tips on how to behave on social networks and in the media against fake news
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Six ways artificial intelligence can make political campaigns trickier than ever

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On the origins of the conspiracies

Taxi drivers and many others tend to believe any theory as long as it does not appear in the mainstream media but on fringe sites that profit - financially or politically - from these theories
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How fake science websites hijack our trust in experts to hinder the fight against the climate crisis

The deniers of the climate crisis can't get into scientific journals, so they try their luck using websites that pretend to be such journals. A communication researcher explains how to identify such sites