Fake news has been circulating after Poland shot down several Russian drones that violated its airspace on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. DW fact check debunks some of the most viral false claims. This is the first time Poland has been forced to shoot down suspected Russian drones in its airspace Image: Anita Walczewska/Eastnews/IMAGO Poland's armed forces shot down Russian drones after they violated national airspace during an attack on Ukraine overnight into Wednesday.
Wearing a gold chain, Adidas tracksuit and handling suspiciously blurry-looking banknotes, it is obvious to most viewers that it is the product of generative AI. The creators, the Crewkerne Gazette, who run satire pages on Facebook and YouTube, have made a series of parody songs all AI-generated featuring other notable figures such as Keir Starmer, Nigel Farage and King Charles.
This article introduces a new NPQ series titled The New Asian Diaspora Media: Defending Democracy Locally and Globally. Co-produced with Kavitha Rajagopalan, who directs a program on community journalism at the City University of New York (CUNY), this series highlights stories of how different Asian American communities are using grassroots digital media to meet their communities' needs for trustworthy in-language information amid a media environment distorted by rampant disinformation.
A cross-border investigation by members of the Eurovision News Spotlight, including DW Fact check, has uncovered that the State of Israel has used its Government Advertising Agencyto run paid international campaigns aimed at shaping public opinion in parts of Europe and North America. For at least a year, an Israeli YouTube accounthas been running ad campaigns that discredit UN agencies and challenge the findings of internationally recognized watchdogs.
Artificial intelligence, apparently, is the new "fake news." Blaming AI is an increasingly popular strategy for politicians seeking to dodge responsibility for something embarrassing - among others. AI isn't a person, after all. It can't leak or file suit. It does make mistakes, a credibility problem that makes it hard to determine fact from fiction in the age of mis- and disinformation.
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Extreme politics and extreme weather go hand in hand, and both have to be confronted if we are to understand and overcome the polycrisis we are living through. Yet few media organisations are examining why the climate emergency is creating a new era of demagogues. Even fewer are scrutinising how those authoritarian leaders are trying to misdirect public attention away from the root cause of our current global malaise.
AI is dominating the economy and at the top of policy agendas. Ads for it are everywhere. Your favorite artist is probably experimenting with it. And as hundreds of billions of dollars get poured into the tech, it can feel like the whole world is holding its breath for when it somehow becomes superintelligent and magically ushers us into a utopic age.
Erika Stael von Holstein, 41, has been advising European institutions on science, technology, society, and democracy for two decades. She's the founder and director of Re-Imagine Europe, a think tank focused on depolarization. The Stockholm-born advisor has also promoted Nodes.eu, a European observatory of narratives against disinformation. Von Holstein is a member of the expert council on artificial intelligence convened by the Spanish government. This work brought her to Madrid, where she met with EL PAIS.
Presented by the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) at Poynter, GlobalFact is the world's largest and most impactful summit for professional fact-checking. Every year, fact-checkers come together to address industry-wide challenges, exchange best practices and build collaborative solutions to improve our shared information ecosystem. Each day of the summit features keynote presentations, interactive learning sessions and networking events to help fact-checkers build business operations, audiences and impact.
The Kremlin used the recent vote of no confidence against European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to launch a narrative about the dysfunctions of European institutions, attempting to polarize and weaken the EU.
"Having an energy conversation without talking about climate is like talking about smoking and not talking about cancer." For too many years, the petroleum industry has discouraged analysis of energy policy and its climate results.
Just hours after Minnesotans learned that Democratic House leader Melissa Hortman had been assassinated, right-wing influencer Collin Rugg, who has 1.8 million followers on X, posted a 'report' that hinted that she'd been killed because of a recent vote on ending undocumented adults' ability to enroll in MinnesotaCare, a subsidized health insurance for the working poor.
Mountainhead presents a stark reflection of our current reality, spotlighting the disconnection in a tech-driven world battling chaos fueled by disinformation.
