Canada is seeing a boom in political books created with generative artificial intelligence ahead of its election, with such works flooding Amazon and raising concerns about how they might affect information voters get. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/04/23/companies/amazon-ai-political-books-canada-election/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #canada #ai #books #misinformation #fakenews #markcarney

America's fight against misinformation and disinformation appears to be on the wane. @AxiosNews reports on record-low levels of trust in the media, a bipartisan drop in enthusiasm for restrictions on false online content, and the gutting of government bodies once focused on combating mis- and disinformation.

https://flip.it/mjAXqV

Government Cancels Disinformation Grants in Disinformation-Filled Statement https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/nsf-science-disinformation-research-grants-cancelled/ #Trump #Musk #FakeNews

If you think that JD Vance fucked a couch, and you think that's crazy... Wait until you hear that he killed the #Pope.
#fakenews

**Dr. Boucher: Trump Is Not the Cause, but a Symptom**

“_Dr. Boucher warns that even without Trump, populist forces will endure, backed by media ecosystems, think tanks, and loyalist networks._”

https://www.populismstudies.org/dr-boucher-trump-is-not-the-cause-but-a-symptom/.

#Trump #Populism #Immigration #SociaMedia #FakeNews #Nativism #PoliticalScience #Politics #USPol #USA #US #UnitedStates @politicalscience

While Beijing speaks of fighting Donald Trump's trade war "to the end," China's army of social media soldiers are embarking on a more humorous campaign online. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/18/asia-pacific/chinese-meme-mockery-trump/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #china #us #internet #socialmedia #fakenews #tariffs #tradewar #donaldtrump

**Profiling misinformation susceptibility**

"_Multilevel modelling showed that Generation Z, non-male, less educated, and more conservative individuals were more vulnerable to misinformation._"

Kyrychenko, Y. et al. (2025) 'Profiling misinformation susceptibility,' Personality and Individual Differences, 241, p. 113177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2025.113177.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Study #DOI #Misinformation #FakeNews #ConspiracyTheories #Personality #Psychology #Academia #Academics @psychology

Vorig jaar bedroog de #NOS ons. Gaat zij dat dit jaar opnieuw doen, zodra de Politie haar cijfers over discriminatiemeldingen in 2024 heeft gepubliceerd?

Op 23-4-2024 kopte de NOS [1]:

"Antisemitisme grote stijger in het groeiende aantal meldingen over discriminatie"

Dat was een abjecte leugen (verkapte #propaganda voor Israël; een oproep om alle Joden te ontzien, ongeacht wat zij doen of steunen).

In de (in het artikel aangehaalde) periode 2018 t/m 2023 bedroeg het gemiddelde percentage meldingen van antisemitische incidenten, van *alle* gemelde incidenten, namelijk óók 10% (druk op ALT in onderstaand plaatje voor meer info).

Nb. *ondanks* dat antiZionistische incidenten na 7-okt-2023 door de Politie onder antisemitisme (*) zijn gerekend, was er dus geen procentuele *toename* van antisemitsme in onze, onsmakelijk verruwende, maatschappij.

Nb. écht antisemitisme bestaat helaas (de familie van mijn Joodse opa is vermoord door Nazi's tijdens WWII). De "explosie" die de media en politiek (https://www.vvd.nl/nieuws/verklaring-tegen-jodenhaat/) ervan maakten, is echter afschuwelijke #hasbara.

Ook de grafiek in het NOS-artikel is gemanipuleerd. Zo is het roze "antisemitisme-balkje" in 2022 zelfs *lager* dan in 2018: met 549 meldingen had het 2x zo hoog moeten zijn (als het balkje in 2018, met 275 meldingen).

En met 768 meldingen in 2019 is het balkje, vergeleken met de 8% balkjes, ook veel te laag. De NOS zal het ongetwijfeld ontkennen, maar u wordt ordinair belazerd (zie onderstaande grafiek uit het NOS-artikel, waaraan ik getallen uit de rapportages van de Politie heb toegevoegd).

(*) Gerelativeerd door de Politie, uit hun laatste rapport (cijfers over 2023):

"Opvallend is de forse toename van incidenten in de context van voetbalwedstrijden, waarbij vooral beledigende leuzen en kwetsende liederen over Joden worden gezongen of antisemitisch wordt gescholden richting de 'tegenpartij'."

Ook blijkt de bereidheid om discriminatie-incidenten te melden veel lager bij o.a. Moslims dan bij Joden en "112" hulpverleners.

[1] https://nos.nl/artikel/2517855-antisemitisme-grote-stijger-in-het-groeiende-aantal-meldingen-over-discriminatie (alt: https://archive.is/Dab2z).

Cc: @EricChrSmit

#Antisemitisme #JodenHaat #VerklaringTegenJodenhaat
#ZionistenHaat #Zionisten #DefinitieVanAntisemitisme
#FrancescaAlbaneseIsRight #FakeNews #Misleiding #Genocide #Gaza #Westbank #Libanon #Syrië #Jemen

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday he was shutting down a State Department office that had sought to counter foreign disinformation, accusing it of censorship and wasting U.S. taxpayer money. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/17/world/politics/us-department-foreign-disinformation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #marcorubio #misinformation #fakenews #us #republicans #donaldtrump #elonmusk #jdvance

A #criticalThinking exercise reduced Dems' #fakeNews sharing intent, but not Reps' (N > 1k).

CT exercise: answer 3 questions (with an alluring-but-false option), and then read correct answers, explanations, and instructions to think more reflectively.

https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-025-07578-5

A sophisticated network of fake social media accounts sprang to the impassioned defense of former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte after he was sent to face charges over his bloody drug war. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/11/asia-pacific/politics/duterte-fake-news-support-network/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #rodrigoduterte #philippines #misinformation #socialmedia #fakenews

Profiteers have flooded social media with fake news and bogus videos since a powerful earthquake devastated Myanmar last month, exploiting the chaos with clickbait, analysts say. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/11/asia-pacific/myanmar-fake-news-profits/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #myanmar #fakenews #misinformation #earthquakes

**Who is most likely to fall for fake news?**

_“No matter who you are, no matter what you think you know, none of us is immune to misinformation,” said Dr. Friedrich Götz, assistant professor of psychology at the University of B.C. and the study’s senior author._

https://news.ubc.ca/2025/04/misinformation-susceptibility-who-falls-for-fake-news/.

#FakeNews #Misinformation #Psychology #Society #Education @psychology

This is not a Dire Wolf. Or De-extinction. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/4/7/2315241/-That-is-not-a-Dire-Wolf?pm_campaign=trending&pm_source=sidebar&pm_medium=web #DireWolf #FakeNews

Meta ends fact-checking in the USA on Monday

Meta used the fact-checking program to combat misinformation on its platforms. US users now have to do it themselves.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Meta-ends-fact-checking-in-the-USA-on-Monday-10341683.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon