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The Fondation Descartes is a citizen-based, non-partisan, and independent European foundation dedicated to information-based issues.

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Malgorithm: How Instagram’s algorithm publishes misinformation and hate to millions during a pandemic

This report by the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) analyzes the way in which Instagram’s new algorithm (put in place in August 2020) recommends misinformation to users via its “Explore” and “Suggested Posts” features.

Trump’s False Posts Were Treated with Kids Gloves by Facebook

According to The Markup, the labels used by Facebook meant to flag questionable or false information are not always adequate, which reflects the challenges that the social network faces in controlling the fake news circulating its platform.

Shifting attention to accuracy can reduce misinformation online

In this article, a team of psychologists tries to explain why we sometimes share false information on the Internet.

The propagation of fake news on Twitter

This CSA report analyzes the mechanisms by which false information spreads on Twitter.

Misinformation, a plea for the reform of information

“Politicians and media institutions, beyond all reason, share the heavy responsibility of reducing citizens’ exposure to “the political question”. This tendency originates from the supposed (and gradually proven) aversion of […]

The Spread of Inaccurate political information in the Era of Distrusted News Media

This study seeks to understand how political misinformation spreads. To do so, it is bases itself on the popular assumption that citizens are distrustful of the mainstream media. It then […]

Journalism in search of landmarks in the United States

The "crisis of conscience" of the American press was accentuated in 2005 with the "Judith Miller" affair, named after the New York Times journalist who was imprisoned for several months […]

What fake news are symptomatic of?

On December 10, 2016, about a month after his election, Donald Trump used the term 'fake news' for the first time in one of his famous tweets. A few months […]

Petite histoire de la désinformation: from the Trojan horse to the Internet

Petite histoire de la désinformation exposes, from Antiquity to the present day, desinformation operations and provides us with anecdotes that, from the Trojan horse to the Internet, from the Potemkin […]

Analyzing How People Orient to and Spread Rumors in Social Media by Looking at Conversational Threads

As breaking news unfolds people increasingly rely on social media to stay abreast of the latest updates.

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