Misinformation

• Negen Japanse politieke partijen, waaronder de regerende Liberal Democratic Party en oppositiegroepen, zijn donderdag overeengekomen om te eisen dat exploitanten van sociale media desinformatie, misinformatie en laster tijdens verkiezingen verminderen. • Het plan zou platforms dwingen om beloningsbetalingen aan gebruikers te staken, sneller te reageren op verzoeken tot verwijdering en AI-gegenereerde inhoud te labelen, waarbij wetgevers streven om wetgeving tijdens de huidige sessie van de Diet aan te nemen. • Deze stap is van belang omdat Japan online inmenging wil beperken vóór de lokale gedelegeerde verkiezingen van volgende lente, terwijl de transparantie over hoe platforms verkiezingsgerelateerde inhoud modereren, wordt vergroot.

Health officials in Trump administration were accused of fueling ‘crisis of public trust’ over autism and vaccinesMisinformation from top health officials in the Trump administration has created a “crisis of public trust” – and Congress should conduct oversight hearings and possibly impeach officials such as Robert F Kennedy Jr, the secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), according to a recently released report.Experts say that officials in the past year have focused intently on both vaccines and autism, including efforts to connect autism to the use of acetaminophen (frequently sold as Tylenol) during pregnancy, despite growing evidence of no link, and replacing all members of the federal autism committee with advisers who have anti-vaccine and pseudoscientific histories. Continue reading...