Tech industry allowing 'deluge' of misinformation: RSF

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Journalism is being battered by propaganda and increasingly sophisticated fakes, aided by AI software and a failure of oversight from tech companies.

File: Doctors in Iraq blame online misinformation: their patients have insisted coronavirus is an American conspiracy, or people are actually dying from a sarin gas attack, or that Iraq's blistering heat would halt the virus's spread.

Norway and North Korea remain best and worst, respectively, for press freedom, according to the 21st annual report, which was published on World Press Freedom Day. "Reliable information is drowned in a deluge of disinformation," Deloire added."We are less and less able to perceive the differences between the real and the artificial, the true and the false."

Some two-thirds of countries have political actors who are"often or systematically involved in massive disinformation or propaganda campaigns", it said, highlighting the cases of Russia, India and China.RSF recently supported a consortium of investigative journalists working on"Forbidden Stories", a project which uncovered the activities of Israeli firm"Team Jorge" which specialises in producing disinformation.

 

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