Emma Suleiman
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Information Literacy is a Vaccine Against Misinformation
Using the vaccination method, understanding how Information Literacy can be a powerful tool in preventing the spread of misinformation. Misinformation can feel inescapable, with many people regularly noticing false or…
Lying with Statistics
Lying with statistics is something that has been around for a long time now, charts tend to spread fast and widely. We see them everywhere, however, some of them don’t…
3 Tools to Generate Fake News
How easy is it today to create fake news on social media? The answer is: extremely easy! Free fake news generator apps are not new and have been really within…
Quote Real Sources with False Information
To assess the credibility of a piece of information you always search for its original source, right? The more credible the source, the more credible the information. But what if…
Inventing People
Why Fake Data When You Can Fake a Scientist? “Where is Wilson?” – Media in China used a fake researcher from Switzerland to spread propaganda against the Swiss laboratory hypothesis”.This…
False Conclusions
Have you ever dropped a stone? Do you want to bet that it would fall down? Have you ever asked a scientist if he is 100% sure that the stone…
False Flag Operations
The term false flag is an intelligence, political, and military term that derives originally from the maritime terminology. It refers to misleading maneuvers and undercover operations, usually carried out by the military…
China’s Fictional Characters
With the rise of the COVID-19 Pandemic, various media outlets have reported on how Chinese media use invented people to spread misinformation and propaganda for their own interests. For example,…
The Many Faces of Deepfake Technology
The word ‚Deepfake‘ is quite clearly a combination of two everyday words, “deep” and “fake”. Deep refers here to the AI technology involved, which is known as deep learning. Deepfake technology is…
