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Elon Musk’s Twitter lifts rule against Covid misinformation

Twitter said it has stopped enforcing a policy intended to prevent the spread of Covid misinformation, as new owner Elon Musk -- who has...

India fact-checkers face threats, jail in misinformation fight

Hunched over laptops in small office cubicles, a group of Indian fact-checkers is on the frontlines of a war against misinformation, braving online abuse...

Twitter layoffs before US poll fuel misinformation concerns

Twitter's new owner Elon Musk has pledged the platform will not devolve into a "free-for-all hellscape," but experts warn that mass layoffs on Friday...

Sara underscores importance of libraries vs. misinformation

Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte on Friday stressed the importance of libraries in preventing misinformation that can easily be found online. The Vice...

US midterm elections: misinformation to watch out for

By Daniel Funke With midterm election campaigns in the closing stretch, Americans could face an onslaught of misinformation about the results. Recent trends suggest alleged...

Zubiri accuses China’s envoy at fault for blacklisting fiasco

Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri on Wednesday denied Chinese Ambassador Huang Xillian’s assertion that he had spread misinformation about Beijing warning its nationals against...

‘TikTok search results rife with misinformation’

TikTok is serving up misinformation to users searching for news about politics, climate change, COVID-19, the war in Ukraine and more, according to a...

OPS, NTC act vs. fake news, spam texts

The Office of the Press Secretary, the main communications arm of the President, will soon have a fact-checking team as part of its campaign...

Bloggers: ‘Glorified Rumormongers’

"By having the face-to-face program scheduled in November, teachers will have at least two months to rest and be ready for work" With the advancement...

Covid-19 misinformation bolsters anti-vaccine movement

By Rob Lever More parents are questioning the necessity of routine vaccinations for young children. Adults are skipping shots as well, even for vaccines with...

Esperon claims blocked websites sow enmity, discord

National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon on Thursday defended his request to have 26 websites blocked, which he said have sowed “enmity and discord” through...

Old tricks, new crises: how US misinformation spreads

"Experts say such misinformation is part of a pattern in which unscrupulous operators intentionally repurpose old narratives" With gun control under debate and monkeypox in...

‘Very ignorant rumour’: Misinformation abounds about monkeypox

By Julie Charpentrat The recent emergence of hundreds of cases of monkeypox worldwide has already triggered a flood of misinformation online, much of it modelled...

Lacson camp tells adversaries, critics to ‘stop peddling lies’

The camp of presidential candidate Sen. Panfilo Lacson has called on their adversaries and critics to “stop peddling lies” as the elections were in...
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