The next wave of disinformation: AI, fact-checks, and the fight for truth
Soviet Union premier Joseph Stalin stands alongside the Volga Dam with – and without – Nikolai Yezhov, head of the nation’s secret police during The Great Purge of the 1930s.
BBC
Falsehoods, fabrications, fake news – disinformation is nothing new. For centuries, people have taken deliberate action to mislead the public. In medieval Europe, Jewish communities were persecuted because people believed conspiracy theories suggesting that Jews spread the Black Death by poisoning wells. In 1937, Joseph Stalin doctored newspaper photographs to remove those who no longer aligned with him, altering the historical record to fit the political ambitions of the present.
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