Fake Reviews on Amazon. A recent Amazon blog post attributes the company’s long-standing problem of fake product reviews to “bad actors attempting to solicit fake reviews outside Amazon, particularly via social media services.”
Disinfo Update 15/06/2021
EU DisinfoLab’s CIB Detection Tree is Growing: The Impact Assessment
Disinfo Update 08/06/2021
In a report released on Thursday, the European Court of Auditors (ECA) assessed the implementation of the EU’s disinformation action plan presented in December 2018, including the Code of Practice, which it finds “fell short of its goal”.
Disinfo Update 01/06/2021
Last Wednesday, the European Commission issued a Guidance document designed to improve the EU’s Code of Practice on Disinformation, the voluntary self-regulation programme established in 2018, to which Facebook, Google, Twitter, TikTok, and a handful of other platforms and trade associations are signatories.
Disinfo Update 18/05/2021
EU High Representative Borrell challenged over the lack of sanctions on actors involved in foreign interference and disinformation.
Disinfo Update 11/05/2021
Mark your calendar! EU DisinfoLab’s 2021 Annual Conference will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday, October 26 & 27, at the Renaissance Hotel in Brussels.
Disinfo Update 04/05/2021
In an effort to assess the commitments of platform signatories of the EU Code of Practice on Disinformation towards individual member states, EU DisinfoLab analysed their monthly COVID-19 disinformation monitoring reports from August 2020 to March 2021.
Disinfo Update 27/04/2021
Nicolas Hénin, EU DisinfoLab external researcher, has undertaken a narrative study of the coverage of vaccines by Russian state media in the French language, specifically in Sputnik France and Russia Today en français.
Disinfo Update 13/04/2021
YouTube is introducing a metric called “Violative View Rate” (VVR), designed to estimate the percentage of views on the platform that are of videos which violate the platform’s terms of service.
Disinfo Update 06/04/2021
Don’t miss our discussion tomorrow with the lead authors of the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC) report: Technology and Democracy: Understanding the Influence of Online Technologies on Political Behaviour and Decision-Making