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Negative articles about a tech CEO vanished from Google after someone made fraudulent requests using the Refresh Outdated Content Tool.

Scam compounds in Cambodia, Myanmar, and Laos have conned people out of billions. New research shows they may be linked to child sextortion crimes too.

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Wired and Business Insider have removed freelance articles over concerns they were written by AI under a fake name.

Amendment to law will strengthen protection against digital imitations of people’s identities, government says The Danish government is to clamp down on the creation and dissemination of AI-generated deepfakes by changing copyright law to ensure that everybody has the right to their own body, facial features and voice. The Danish government said on Thursday it would strengthen protection against digital imitations of people’s identities with what it believes to be the first law of its kind in Europe. Continue reading...

The Bee, Limitless and Plaud wearables record everything you say and use AI to provide summaries, to-do’s—and a slightly terrifying glimpse of the future.

YouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summit

Campus newspapers are confronting ethics debates as foreign students ask that their names and views be removed from past articles.

Press Gazette investigation into the widely-quoted national media experts who either do not exist, or whose credentials have not been checked.

We Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They’re All Bad at Citing News.

Alternative cancer treatments are associated with earlier time to death when used without evidence-based treatments. Our study suggests alternative cancer clinics providing scientifically unsupported ...

The news business is facing its next enormous challenge. Here are eight reasons to be both optimistic and paranoid.

The FBI and Department of Homeland Security have scaled back efforts over the past two years to disrupt violent extremists’ online activities, according to current and former US officials and internet...

A lawsuit argues that the platform helped dealers sell children deadly counterfeit drugs. The plaintiffs’ legal strategy could change the internet as we know it.

Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs ordered the operation, which used fake social media accounts urging U.S. lawmakers to fund Israel’s military, according to officials and documents about the effor...

Huge swaths of the web are vanishing. What does that do to our culture?

Private messages detail an alleged campaign to tarnish Blake Lively after she accused Justin Baldoni of misconduct on the set of “It Ends With Us.”

Artists, merch sellers, and journalists making and posting Luigi media have become the targets of bogus DMCA claims.

Filter resulting from subject of settled defamation lawsuit could cause trouble down the road.