Misinformation

In a blog post published earlier today, WhatsApp announced that it will now be labelling forwarded messages in an attempt to help stop the spread of misinformation. The new label will indicate when a message has been forward to someone from another user. In the blog post, the company said: “This extra context will help...

According to a new report from Reuters, Facebook is planning to launch an election integrity initiative that will help protect Canada's next election from cyber threats. The decision was made due to pressure the social network is facing over its role in possible Russian meddling in the last U.S. presidential election. Canada's minister of democratic institutions...

In November of last year, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi banned 86% of the country’s legal tender from circulation. While the goal was to get rid of “black money,” a term used in India for cash that is stored outside of the country’s banking system to evade taxes, it brought to light another issue that […]

Mark Zuckerburg has finally committed to creating a plan to fix Facebook's fake news problem. Following a week of criticism in which even President Obama spoke out about the dangers of social media sites pushing fake news, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted late last night about what his company is doing to fix this problem....