Scammers Target African Journalists with Disinformation on Meta(Facebook/Instagram) Platforms
As journalists across the region continue to face unprecedented attacks on their press freedoms with widespread intimidation, harassment and detention for their work, a new threat looms. African journalists are increasingly becoming a subject of targeted disinformation with deep fakes of journalists’ images being used to spread fake stories and scam people. An investigation by […]
AI-Generated Misinformation and Disinformation Idea-thon
Help Solve a Major Societal Problem—Bring Your Ideas to Fight Misinformation and Disinformation AI-generated Misinformation and disinformation pose a significant threat to democracy. They are spread by local/foreign state actors, businesses and malign non-state actors bent on undermining and damaging free and liberty-loving republics. A new grassroots strategy is needed: bottom-up rather than top-down. That […]