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"Les médias sont une composante de l’état de droit. Ils assurent la production d’info validée. Lorsqu'ils sont affaiblis au profit d’entreprises comme les réseaux sociaux qui s’en tiennent à capter et valoriser l’attention sans reddition de comptes,l’état de droit est fragilisé"
🇺🇸 Donald Trump’s election victory paves the way for a fresh wave of misinformation, not only around politics but also on vaccines and climate u.afp.com/5H7F
ALT “The problem of misinformation and disinformation is the worst it’s ever been." - Bill Adair, Duke University professor and founder of PolitiFact
Vermont's @sevendaysvt went from being an arts-and-culture upstart to the state's paper of record, expanding local news coverage while staying true to its community roots. Read more about this Bright Spot in @MedillSchool's 2024 State of Local News Report. localnewsinitiative.northwes…
Where did Trump voters get their news? 📰
Yes, there's social and partisan sites, but there is another influential strategy that isn't getting enough attention: Manipulated, pay-to-play and all out fake news sites
I've been covering a mix of those for years. Here's a primer
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La semaine dernière, le co-directeur de l’équipe de transition de Trump affirmait que les vaccins causaient l’autisme et on apprenait que Robert F. Kennedy Jr, défenseur de théories douteuses en santé, pourrait se voir offrir le ministère de la Santé.
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Un avantage à la victoire de Trump: un grand nombre de désinformateurs sont allés se coucher. "Social media was flooded with baseless claims of voter fraud in the final hours of the US presidential election -- until Donald Trump claimed victory."
🇺🇸🗳️ Disinformation about voter fraud inundated social media leading up to the US presidential contest and peaked on Election Day. But Donald Trump's decisive victory seems to have muted the online frenzy u.afp.com/5rVy
ALT "It is almost certainly quieter on this front today than it would have been had Trump lost or won narrowly." - Ethan Porter, professor and researcher at The George Washington University Misinformation/Disinformation Lab
This year’s US presidential race is unprecedented, and the stage is set for a period of intense rumouring about voting and counting-related processes go.nature.com/3NXrkgR
"My kids keep asking anxiously what will happen if Trump wins. I tell them that their lives won’t change, that we’ll have to try to stand up for others who are more vulnerable, but that we ourselves will be fine. The last two words I only say in my head: “For now.”
“The place we left off at in January 2021 will, in all likelihood, be the starting point for a Trump administration in 2025,” writes @michelleinbklyn.
Read: nyti.ms/40ogZlx
New: Elon Musk’s misinformation megaphone has created a “huge problem” for election officials in key battleground states who told CNN they’re struggling to combat the wave of falsehoods coming from the tech billionaire & spreading wildly on his X platform.
w/ @snlyngaas & @SaraMurraycnn.com/2024/10/31/politics/…
Gracieuseté d'Elon: de nouveaux comptes d'usagers fictifs intéressés par le sport ou la cuisine se sont fait servir des contenus pro-Trump ou qui sèment le doute sur l'élection du 5 novembre. [Enfilade]
NEW: @X is pushing partisan content, most of it supporting Trump & sowing election doubt.
@WSJ reporters created new accounts with interests in things like crafts, then observed what content the accounts got recommended.
Their "for you" feeds showed pro-Trump content at double the rate of pro-Harris content.
By @jackgillum @AlexaCorse & Adrienne Tong
wsj.com/politics/elections/x…
Enfilade: "les chatbots d’IA s’avèrent une cible facile pour les acteurs malveillants, se montrant plus susceptibles de relayer de fausses informations liées à l’actualité lorsqu’ils sont soumis à des instructions imitant celles d’acteurs malveillants"
Selon un nouvel audit de @NewsGuardRating, les #Chatbot d’#IA générative échouent à fournir des informations exactes en #langue#française dans près d’un quart des cas, le moins performant d’entre eux échouant dans 66,66% des cas ⬇️ Thread 1/15 ⬇️