How can digital platforms and countries tackle online mis- & disinformation and hate speech? António Guterres puts forward proposals for a Code of Conduct in his new report. un.org/sites/un2.un.o…

Nordic countries fare well in an analysis of countries resistant to fake news, while Georgia performed the worst. Finland Most Resistant to ‘Fake News,’ Report Finds usnews.com/news/best-coun…

Social media platforms seem to have forgotten all the lessons they learned on content moderation – or were never committed to it in the first place. This timeline from Media Matters demonstrates the shift: mediamatters.org/facebook/socia…

Learn more about NORDIS and their efforts in combating #disinformation. 🥊 🧾Read the full interview with Mikko Salo & Kari Kivinen here➡️media-and-learning.eu/type/featured-… #MediaLiteracy European Digital Media Observatory Faktabaari

I was attending first time to the annual meeting of SocietyTextDiscourse. What a great experience! If you missed the poster by @AnnikaS_H and me, check it here: educritical.fi/wp-content/upl… CRITICAL Strateginen tutkimus Tampere University EDU

”In every country, participants with a more analytic cognitive style and stronger accuracy-related motivations were better at discerning truth from falsehood; valuing democracy was also associated with greater truth discernment”

”Extant research is evaluated on the questions of why (some) people are (more) susceptible to misinformation, how misinformation spreads in online social networks, and which interventions can help to boost psychological immunity to misinformation”

The results of studies show that fact-checks are effective at reducing people’s misperceptions. However, these positive effects on belief accuracy come at a cost: users exposed to political fact-checks trust news less and perceive the media as more biased.."

In sum: Let's embrace digital curiosity against risks of #ChatGPT making us intellectually lazy! #FinnishED 🧵with #SISU 💪

Ugh. ChatGPT generates 'convincing' fake scientific article medicalxpress.com/news/2023-07-c… via Medical Xpress Heightens "need to prioritize the reproducibility and visibility of scientific works, as they serve as essential safeguards against the flourishing of fraudulent research."

Faktabaari contributes to non-governmental Nordic🇫🇮🇳🇴🇸🇪🇩🇰🇮🇸 & US 🇺🇸 co-operation to tackle #disinformation within NORDIS & with Center for an Informed Public 🤝. In June FactBar EDU trained US #teachers in Seattle 👇 #informationliteracy #democracy #elections 🧵 ✅faktabaari.fi/edu/teaching-f…

🧵 on 🇺🇸🇫🇮#FinnishED workshop - Teaching for #Resilience based on #uwcip & NORDIS materials for an informed public. x.com/Faktabaari/sta…

"Humans cannot distinguish between tweets generated by GPT-3 and written by real Twitter users. Starting from our results, we reflect on the dangers of AI for disinformation and on how information campaigns can be improved to benefit global health." science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

European Media Literacy Index 2023 is an instrument for assessing and ranking societies in their potential for resilience in the face of the #post-truth, #disinformation, and #misinformation (e.g. “fake news”) phenomena. Learn more ➡️media-and-learning.eu/type/featured-… Marin Lessenski

We are pioneers of a completely new quality of information warfare. No textbooks or trainings have ever prepared us for this. The biggest information challenge of this war is not enemy disinformation, but the need for the entire society to switch to a wartime information regime..

A huge thanks to European Media & Information Fund for trusting us on monitoring #disinformation ahead of the 2024 presidential and #EU elections in #Finland 🇫🇮. We will deploy 11 new monitoring points in the country, analysing disinformation narratives with Faktabaari checkfirst.network/checkfirst-exp…

1/ Tiedote❗️Faktabaari ja CheckFirst tarkkailevat ensi vuoden presidentinvaaleja ja Euroopan parlamentin vaaleja täysin uudenlaisella tavalla: seuraamalla sosiaalista mediaa ja sen suosittelualgoritmeja. Siis mitä?🤔 CrossOver

Mietitkö oppilaiden tai jälkikasvun kanssa, mitä #tekoäly'stä pitäisi opettaa? Ota käyttöön tuore Tekoälyopas. Pipsa Havula antaa jo ensimmäisessä luvussa rautaisannoksen. Koko opas ilmaiseksi sivuillamme, ketjussa maistiainen ensimmäisestä luvusta. faktabaari.fi/dil/tekoaly-fa…

Thank you #MLmatters for a very rich & timely #medialiteracy gathering & esp. sessions looking on aspects such as #dataliteracy #algoliteracy #AIliteracy crucial to be covered by independent literacy efforts. Please also share your hands-on materials w/ #MLmatters

Herewith Faktabaari FactBar EDU 5 cents covered by Digital Information Literacy w/link to #factchecking and source reliability faktabaari.fi/dil/