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Facebook bans coronavirus ‘miracle cure’ ads

February 27, 2020 0 Comments clickbait, coronavirus, covid-19, facebook, facebook ranking, fake news, health, Instagram, miracle cure, phishing, ranking, Social networks, Spam

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 10:50:38 +0000

Facebook, like other platforms, has seen fake news, mass-buying of face masks, and misinformation about bleach being a cure for COVID-19.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/9dojXZGW3Is” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Facebook asks to be regulated kinda like a newspaper, kinda like telco

February 19, 2020 0 Comments content moderation, european commission, extremist content, facebook, fake news, harms regulation, Law & order, Mark Zuckerberg, political advertising, Privacy, regulations, regulators, rules for the internet, Social networks, uk

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 11:37:17 +0000

Zuckerberg is in Brussels right in time for the European Commission’s release of its manifesto on regulating AI.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/vD36QJcf5Ls” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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FBI director warns of sustained Russian disinformation threat

February 10, 2020 0 Comments ballot tampering, disinformation, disinformation campaigns, election meddling, fake news, FBI, Government security, nation state hacking, russia, security threats, us elections, vote fixing

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 11:20:55 +0000

Russia is still using social media in a sustained campaign to dabble in US affairs, according to FBI director Chris Wray.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/KHa-fKvAVcA” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Twitter bans deepfakes, but only those ‘likely to cause harm’

February 6, 2020 0 Comments alphabet, assembler, cheapfakes, deepfakes, disinformation, facebook, fake news, gan, generative adversarial network, Google, jigsaw, Machine Learning, shallowfakes, Social networks, stylegan, the current, twitter

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2020 13:52:30 +0000

Twitter isn’t interested in how the “synthetic or manipulated” media is created, but if it has the potential to cause harm it’ll be removed.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/6IJPjMtC2sA” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Reddit bans ‘impersonation,’ but satire and parody are still OK

January 13, 2020 0 Comments 2020 US presidential election, ban, deepfakes, fake news, impersonation, mimicry, parody, reddit, satire, Social networks, us presidential election

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 11:23:12 +0000

Relax: Nic Cage deepfakes aren’t going anywhere. It’s only “maliciously misleading” impersonations that are now verboten.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/e5EgZrSlk2I” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Facebook bans deepfakes, but not cheapfakes or shallowfakes

January 8, 2020 0 Comments cheapfakes, deepfakes, facebook, fake news, Machine Learning, Mark Zuckerberg, shallowfakes, Social networks

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2020 11:20:02 +0000

Quick-n-sleazy edits are still OK, such as the 75% slowdown that made Nancy Pelosi slur or the edit that turned Joe Biden into a racist.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/7w8AhUNJatM” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Instagram hides ‘false’ content, unless it’s from a politician

December 19, 2019 0 Comments facebook, fact checking, fake news, Instagram, international fact-checking network, misinformation, political propaganda, Social networks

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 10:50:00 +0000

Instagram’s expanding its fact-checking program but, like Facebook, says it won’t keep political speech away from “public debate and scrutiny.”<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/zAu2kI-UzaU” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Facebook made to ‘correct’ user’s post as Singapore flexes fake-news muscle

December 4, 2019 0 Comments alex tan, correction direction, facebook, fake news, false statement of fact, Government security, Law & order, pofma, protection from online falsehoods and manipulation act, singapore, Social networks, states times review

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2019 11:59:03 +0000

“Facebook did a great job,” said Alex Tan, who admitted that his story about a whistleblower’s arrest was based on hearsay.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/M8F1E6yjtlY” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Ad fraud: Fake local news sites are rolling in the dough

December 3, 2019 0 Comments ad fraud, ads, amazon, bots, click fraud, fake news, Google, google ad network, google ads, seo

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2019 11:11:41 +0000

“forbesbusinessinsider.com?” Names like that sound close enough to real news domains to pass, but bots are the only ones visiting.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/qLSQ70kb1xM” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Tories change Twitter name to ‘factcheckUK’ during live TV debate

November 20, 2019 0 Comments @cchqpress, #itvdebate, boris johnson, conservative party, debate, display name, factcheckuk, fake news, full fact, jeremy corbyn, tories, tory, twitter, uk, uk election debate, verified account

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 22:12:36 +0000

Twitter wagged its finger at the UK’s Conservative party for renaming its press account “factcheckUK” during a live TV debate.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/tYYIJoeFjEw” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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