Fake news on everything from whales to wind farms: Australia is flooded with climate misinformation

Disinformation is everywhere: AI-based material was even used to generate some of false claims in submissions to the inquiry into misinformation.

The Conversation
Fact check: Pierre Poilievre’s misinformation on Joe Rogan’s podcast disrespects Canadians

By promoting politically expedient misinformation on a show like Joe Rogan’s, Pierre Poilievre appears intent on pushing dangerous and misleading claims that resonate only with his base.

The Conversation
Using your AI chatbot as a search engine? Be careful what you believe

Because of the way generative AI works, there is no real way to prevent false information being presented as truth – or to correct it permanently.

The Conversation

Today's #protest against the pro-russian #populist government led by Andrej #Babiš.

#Prague #Praha #MilionChvilek #letná #AntiPopulism #ThisIsFine

Wow, Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer in 2023 over #populist avant la lettre Kleon in 500 voor Christus. Het is natuurlijk niet toevallig zo opgeschreven, maar tsjongejonge, het komt me wel erg bekend voor!
#IljaLeonardPfeijffer #alkibiades
Cancer vaccines could transform treatment and prevention – but misinformation about mRNA vaccines threatens their potential

False claims that COVID-19 mRNA vaccines cause cancer could, ironically, lead to worse cancer outcomes by undermining a promising tool to prevent and treat it.

The Conversation
#JuliusCaesar was the last dictator of the #RomanRepublic (not an emperor), and his heavy-handed rule and #populist politics got him assassinated on the #IdesOfMarch, #ThisDayInHistory in 44 BCE. Please note that economic justice can be pursued without empowering tyrants & kings.
Will Europe’s populists dump Trump?

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Britain’s Labour Party stares into the abyss in its Welsh heartland

In the old coalfields of south Wales, Britain’s center-left establishment faces being crushed by a nationalist left and populist right. POLITICO went to find out why.

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»The man who wants to kick off the fight against #rightwingpopulism: Slovenia’s Prime Minister #RobertGolob tells Politico that his #rightwing election rival #JanezJanša wants to break up the #EuropeanUnionhttps://www.politico.eu/article/europe-fightback-right-wing-populism-slovenia-hungary-election/?Populist.in #FactCrisis #Populism #Populist #Movement