Network security goes to the Pentagon. We are not talking about the physical security of networks but about discovering "fake news" which, as seen, if used massively, can affect political campaigns but also the behavior of the population. Corsera reports that the USAF, the American Air Force would be developing software capable of automatically scanning the contents [...]
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Russia has denied offering rewards to the Taliban for killing US troops in Afghanistan. In a series of 'tweets' on its account, the Russian embassy in Washington spoke of 'fake news' and accused the New York Times, which had written about it, of circulating news that triggered threats to diplomats [...]
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“We need a radical change in the balance of power between these platforms and the public. The age of inadequate self-regulation must end, ”said Damian Collins, chairman of the House of Commons Commission on Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). This is the summary of what the British parliamentarians said in the Report [...]
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It would not have been the Russians to make the perfect storm on Twitter against the President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella, with the hashtag #matterelladimettiti, at least so it is thought. The element that gave the "warning" was that the 300 Italian profiles who launched the attack on Mattarella lit up at the same time. On 3 August, the Courier [...]
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Temporary blockade for websites accused of spreading fake news and ban on mobile phones in the classroom for compulsory school children. With two bills, French President Emmanuel Macron tries to keep his electoral promises in terms of digital information and education. While the ok at first reading came from [...]
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Fake news spreads almost at the speed of light to put it mildly. This is what happens on Twitter, according to the results of a study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology published in the journal Science. The researchers analyzed the spread of true and false news through Twitter between 2006 and 2007. The […]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) It was known that they were important elections and that they were new and unique elections as well. It was understood from the election campaign, without comparisons on television between the various party leaders, an incomplete election campaign carried out almost entirely on social media. Social media have played a decisive role in [...]
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Facebook has decided to entrust a group of journalists with the task of selecting the real news from those of dubious reliability. Google and Facebook are realizing that journalistic professionalism is important. In this context, it is urgent to safeguard a system of safeguards and rules ”. This was stated, in an interview with Corriere della Sera, on [...]
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(Massimiliano D'Elia) I noticed, these days behind the campaign of the Italian general election, high production of "fake news" on social media. A recent survey found that Italians, on average, consult news on social media at least 150 times a day. In practice, every hour at least 10 times they look at the smartphone for [...]
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The EU commissioner for digital, Mariya Gabriel, in an interview with Qn talked about fake news and relations with upcoming electoral commitments We want to deal with fake news, in particular fake news on social and political issues. The elections in Italy will be monitored on a par with other countries. Since 2015 we have been acting against the campaigns [...]
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Recently, the topic of fake news has become a hot topic, especially in the period of political elections: Facebook and Twitter are under accusation, which over the years have proved to be perfect sounding boards for false news. With the aim of obtaining easy views through the publication of sensational news, publishers publish hoaxes aiming to earn [...]
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The newspaper of the PD "Democratica" has drawn up the first report on "fake news", before the political campaign for the next elections is heated up. The result is confusing to say the least, where friends and adversaries often get confused between misleading information and scoops. The links with foreign networks and well-known populist propaganda channels and [...]
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Fake news is false news, or falsified, for example by appropriately cutting out an audio or juxtaposing things that have nothing to do with it - in order to arouse an emotional or social reaction ”. This is what Stefano Zanero, associate professor of DEIB, the computer engineering department of the Politecnico di Milano, points out to Cyber Affairs. "The purposes of their [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The electoral campaign gets underway and the political parties begin to tease, with new means, the digital ones. This time they scramble on "fake news", after the rumors of Buzzfeed and the New York Times. Buzzfeed, a few days ago, spoke of a network of sites and social accounts set up specifically on [...]
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Despite quarterly revenues above $ 10 billion, Facebook lost share yesterday after the market, reversing course from an initial rally fueled by profits soaring 79% and revenue increased by 47% annually. Investors have punished the title of the social network which, first through its CEO Mark Zuckerberg [...]
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USA: TRUMP, INCREASE NUCLEAR HEADS? PURE FAKE NEWS Donald Trump defines with a twitt, pure fiction, the new revelations of the NBC, according to which the president, during a meeting with the military leaders, would have asked for a substantial increase in the number of atomic warheads in the American nuclear arsenal. Fake NBCnews invented the news I wanted [...]
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