According to an investigation carried out by two international organizations and confirmed by Amnesty International (AI), cell phones of journalists and human rights advocates in El Salvador were infected with the invasive Israeli...
UNESCO and a network of Uruguayan universities will host the seventh edition of the Academic Conference on the Safety of Journalists in Punta del Este, Uruguay. The Academic Conference will take place within the framework of...
Celebrity chef Pete Evans has been permanently suspended from Instagram for repeatedly sharing misinformation about COVID-19 and vaccines. His account had hundreds of thousands of followers. He was first suspended from Facebook in...
Facebook apologised to Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta after it mistakenly flagged as false his congratulatory message to the Ugandan President-elect Yoweri Museveni. Facebook admitted that the message was labelled as false becaus...
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) developed an app to identify high-risk COVID-19 patients. The Khalifa University of Science and Technology unveiled the app, dubbed 'CovidSense', that will collect data from phone users to identify w...
According to Zingal Labs, following the ban of Trump on social media platforms such as Twitter, online misinformation on US elections fell by 73%. The research shows that the term 'election fraud' fell from 2.5 million mentions to...
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo initiated legislation that will obligate companies to prominently disclose information about IoT devices (including cell phones) that can record, retain, and transmit recordings. The bill, if passed,...
A coalition of US technology companies have launched a COVID-19 certificate that can be carried on mobile phones and used for multiple purposes such as travel and entry to venues. The group, known as the Vaccine Credential Initiat...
Dr Harpreet Sood, lead of an UK National Health Service (NHS) anti-disinformation campaign, expressed there was big concern regarding the effect of fake news about the COVID-19 vaccine on ethnic minority communities in the UK. Dis...
The Israel based NSO Group produces Pegasus, a highly invasive tool that can turn on a target's smartphone camera and microphone, and access data, practically turning the phone into a spying device. The NSO Group has been previous...
The draft of a European Commission white paper contains an option of temporary ban of the facial recognition technology that would last between three to five years. The ban would extend to places like train stations, stadiums, and...
For the first time, Singapore's fake news law, the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act (POFMA), has been challenged in court by the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP). The government had ordered ordered the ...