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- Wired Italia
Posted on: 2024-08-28
On Facebook, Russian media don’t care about European sanctions

(translated from Italian) There are 52 pages and accounts of Russian media and individuals on Facebook, with a total of more than 3.9 million followers, which, despite having been sanctioned by the European Union after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, are still currently accessible to European citizens. This is according to a report published on July 31 by the Alliance for Europe and Science Feedback, two organizations that are part of the Counter Disinformation Network and specialize in analyzing online disinformation campaigns.

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- Rolling Stone
Posted on: 2024-08-21
How Elon Musk and X Became the Biggest Purveyors of Online Misinformation

Science Feedback released a study in March 2023 which found that 490 misinformation “superspreader” accounts posting viral false claims had enjoyed a 44 percent increase in engagement under the Musk regime.

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- The New York Times
Posted on: 2024-06-10
‘Convergence of Anger’ Drives Disinformation Around E.U. Elections

A report this week from two fact-checking groups, Newtral in Spain and Science Feedback in France, tracked false narratives in six languages that were linked to the farmer protests. There were unfounded claims that the European Union was deliberately destroying crop fields, forcing reductions in agricultural production and trying to replace farmers with A.I. robots. The claims appeared to resonate with audiences far more than general climate criticism did, researchers said.

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- DPA (German Press Agency)
Posted on: 2024-01-10
La banquise arctique en déclin depuis les années 80

« Il est important de comprendre que la glace de mer, en tant qu’indicateur du changement climatique, fluctue d’une année à l’autre », explique Stephen Bell, rédacteur scientifique pour le réseau international Climate Feedback, créé pour lutter contre la désinformation climatique.

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- NPR
Posted on: 2023-04-28
Hard times are here for news sites and social media. Is this the end of Web 2.0?

One recent study by Science Feedback found that user engagement with so-called superspreaders of misinformation increased 44% on the platform since Musk took over.

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- Rappler
Posted on: 2023-02-16
They’re getting smarter: How disinformation peddlers avoid regulation

Does Facebook’s method work? A study done by Science Feedback said yes, but only to a certain extent. Facebook’s interventions on accounts that repeatedly share disinformation and misinformation results in reduced engagement on posts that violate community standards. However, the study found that this did not change the behavior of repeat offenders in the long run.

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- ProPublica
Posted on: 2022-10-29
How Google’s Ad Business Funds Disinformation Around the World

Science Feedback, a French nonprofit fact-checking organization that employs journalists and scientists, provided ProPublica with 427 active URLs of articles about climate change in French and other languages it has rated false since 2021. A fifth of them were earning money with Google, according to the analysis.

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- Rappler
Posted on: 2022-07-11
Why possible loss of CrowdTangle worries fact-checkers and disinformation researchers

How do you know if the fact-checking program works? The fact-check group Science Feedback attempted to answer this question by analyzing Facebook data captured through CrowdTangle and Buzzsumo. (…) “In our research we have been able to show how much Facebook is reducing the visibility of posts in these repeat offender accounts. We were able to transparently verify that Facebook is implementing this policy. Otherwise there is no way of knowing that. We really need this kind of data if we want to be able to measure what is happening on the platform,” Vincent told Rappler.

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- BBC News Brazil
Posted on: 2021-06-02
Covid: study that served as basis for app TrateCov has flaws in methodology

BBC News Brazil reached out to Dutch microbiologist Elisabeth Bik and the editors of Science Feedback to analyze the study that served as the basis for the application TrateCov, developed by Brazil’s Ministry of Health. They found several flaws in the study. For instance, the number of participants in the study showed some discrepancies and the study was peer-reviewed in just one day, a questionably brief period of time…

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- PolitiFact
Posted on: 2021-02-09
No, study didn’t prove that masks have negative effects on 68% of children

Without standards on capturing data on how the children reacted, and without a matched group of children who didn’t wear masks, there’s no way to say that the masks caused the children’s reactions. This Instagram post recycled a claim made in early January. The fact-checkers at Health Feedback debunked that one a few days later (hat tip to Health Feedback for their work on this.)

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On Facebook, Russian media don’t care about European sanctions

How Elon Musk and X Became the Biggest Purveyors of Online Misinformation

‘Convergence of Anger’ Drives Disinformation Around E.U. Elections

La banquise arctique en déclin depuis les années 80

Hard times are here for news sites and social media. Is this the end of Web 2.0?

They’re getting smarter: How disinformation peddlers avoid regulation

How Google’s Ad Business Funds Disinformation Around the World

Why possible loss of CrowdTangle worries fact-checkers and disinformation researchers

Covid: study that served as basis for app TrateCov has flaws in methodology

No, study didn’t prove that masks have negative effects on 68% of children

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