Debating truth
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The Guardian
Sosiale media het die nuus ingesluk – dreig om die finansiering van verslaggewing van openbare belang en lei 'n era in wanneer almal hul eie feite het. Maar die gevolge strek veel verder as joernalistiek
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Digiday
Incorrect predictions on Election Day might have shocked readers, but they don't accurately reflect how most publishers use data journalism.
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Die inligting
It recently dawned on me that we are in an age of information imperialism. Small communities of people used to have their own private stores of knowledge that were distinct to their local communities. That local knowledge defined and bonded them. The internet broadly has opened all of those ...
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CNN
Brian Stelter's essay about the perils of "fake news:" He says it breeds confusion, and people in power benefit from confusion, so "refuse to be confused."
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Die Atlantiese Oseaan
'n Nuwe geskiedenis van die opstel maak die genre heeltemal verkeerd, en onderskryf in die proses 'n misleidende idee van kennis.
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CNN
Kellyanne Conway se gebruik van 'n vreemde frase, "alternatiewe feite," het iets werkliks weerspieël - 'n nuwe administrasie wat voel, op dag drie, dat dit reeds onder beleg is deur onregverdige verslaggewers.
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The Artifice
The history of trolling is a history of rhetoric. This particular history of rhetoric is steeped in philosophy and mythology, spanning across ...
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Die New York Times
Our confirmation bias kicks in, causing us to seek out evidence to prove what we already believe.
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Buzz Machine
“Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government.” — Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) “Fake news” is merely a symptom of greater social ills....
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Die Atlantiese Oseaan
People who share dangerous ideas don’t necessarily believe them.
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Facebook Blog
Mense sê vir ons hulle hou nie van stories wat misleidend, sensasioneel of strooipos is nie.
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Visa
If you see a video of US President Donald Trump today, you can be pretty sure it's real. That won't be the case for long.
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Wired
Die Pentagon se blou-lug-afdeling vra vir hulp om uit te vind watter navorsing om te glo.
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Pew Research Center
People deal in varying ways with tensions about what information to trust and how much they want to learn. Some are interested and engaged with information; others are wary and stressed.
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Graal CS
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VISE
'n Gebruikersvriendelike toepassing het gelei tot 'n ontploffing van oortuigende gesigsruilpornografie.
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ArsTechnica
SXSW: NRK’s dedicated tech team employs “open source” tactics to fight trolling.
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Die gesprek
Terwyl die internet-gekoppelde wêreld spoel van onthullings oor persoonlike manipulasie gebaseer op Facebook-data, waarsku 'n geleerde van virtuele realiteit daar is 'n selfs groter vertroueskrisis op die horison.
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Die Daily Beast
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Jack Fisher Books
Picture the following scenario that may or may not end up being a common occurrence in the near future. It's not a thought experiment. It's not a prediction either. It's just a possible manifestation of what our future might hold. It's late at night and you decide to check out some porn. You struggle to decide…
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Die Atlantiese Oseaan
The digital manipulation of video may make the current era of “fake news” seem quaint.
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Vox
Doctored photos can easily create false memories. What happens when there’s fake video?
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Wired
Machine-made images and videos offer novel ways to spread fake content online, according to AI experts and neuroscientists
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MIT Technology Review
Dink jy dat KI sal help om vals nuus te stop? Die Amerikaanse weermag is nie so seker nie. Die Departement van Verdediging befonds 'n projek wat sal probeer vasstel of die vals video en klank wat toenemend werklik lyk wat deur kunsmatige intelligensie gegenereer word binnekort onmoontlik is om van die regte ding te onderskei - selfs vir 'n ander KI ...
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Projek Sindikaat
When it comes to tackling the "fake news" problem, there is no silver bullet. The modern information ecosystem is like a Rubiks Cube: a different move is required to solve each individual square, and success requires getting all sides in place.
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Langbroeke
Michiko Kakutani stel belang in hoe die onderskeid tussen feit en fiksie vervaag het - en hoe dit ons almal aandadig maak.
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Betanews
As 'n ontleder wil ek graag 'n universele feitekontroleerder hê. Iets soos die koolstofmonoksiedverklikkers op elke vlak van my huis. Iets wat 'n alarm sal maak wanneer daar gevaar is van intellektuele versmoring as gevolg van verstikking in die baloon wat byvoorbeeld deur sekere verkoopspersone, nuusorganisasies, regerings en opvoeders voorgehou word.
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The Guardian
In his new book, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, the bestselling author of Sapiens and Homo Deus turns his attention to the problems we face today
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MIT Technology Review
The first forensics tools for catching revenge porn and fake news created with AI have been developed through a program run by the US Defense Department. Forensics experts have rushed to find ways of detecting videos synthesized and manipulated using machine learning because the technology makes it far easier to create convincing fake videos that could…
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Lekker
Human swarms paired with algorithms are detecting emotions — and lies.
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Science Daily
Al ooit gewonder hoekom plat aardebewoners, geboortes, klimaatsverandering en Holocaust-ontkenners by hul oortuigings bly in die gesig van oorweldigende bewyse van die teendeel? Nuwe bevindinge dui daarop dat terugvoer, eerder as harde bewyse, mense se gevoel van sekerheid 'n hupstoot gee wanneer hulle nuwe dinge leer of probeer om reg van verkeerd te onderskei.
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Polities
Die gemeenskap se gedeelde middeweg is vinnig besig om in 'n slagveld te verander. Wat sal dit aan demokrasie doen?
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Langbroeke
Beskaafdheid sal nooit fascisme verslaan nie, maak nie saak wat The Economist dink nie.
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BPS
By Christian Jarrett. The results help explain why debating controversial issues can feel futile.
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Wired
LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner talks with WIRED editor in chief Nicholas Thompson about the future of work and finding jobs.
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PsyPost
Nuwe navorsing verskaf bewyse dat individue wat geneig is tot dwaling, dogmatiese individue en godsdienstige fundamentaliste meer geneig is om vals nuus te glo. ...
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BuzzFeed
The feature, currently available to some users in India, will eventually be available globally, although YouTube declined to provide a timeline.
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EurekAlert!
New study in Nature Communications finds increasingly narrow peaks of collective attention over time, supporting a 'social acceleration' occurring across different domains.
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Financial Times
Hierdie storm sal verbygaan. Maar die keuses wat ons nou maak, kan ons lewens vir jare verander
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The New Yorker
New discoveries about the human mind show the limitations of reason.
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Medium
Wilde en oënskynlik mal samesweringsteorieë kan voortspruit uit enige stresvolle of ontwrigtende gebeurtenis of verskynsel, aangesien mense tasbare verklarings vir die onsigbare of die onverklaarbare soek. Geloof in…
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CM Bradley
Aangesien ons openbare diskoers blykbaar toenemend gebrek aan grasie en beleefdheid het, ondersoek ons in hierdie video die algemene waarde en noodsaaklikheid daarvan om met mense te praat...
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TED
Only if you are truly open to the possibility of being wrong can you ever learn, says researcher Alex Edmans. In an insightful talk, he explores how confirma...
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Groot Dink
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