Tag: Infox
an epidemic of “deepfakes” rages before the elections
As the South Korean legislative elections approach in April, the ” deepfakes » are multiplying on social networks. These misleading videos using artificial intelligence to create false narratives from real…
Video of US underwater drone in Houthi hands resurfaces
In Yemen, the Houthi rebels have managed to seize an ultra-sophisticated underwater drone, according to numerous publications on social networks shared by accounts close to the Yemeni rebels. A video…
American climate scientist Michael Mann wins defamation case against two bloggers
Resounding victory against disinformation in the United States: one of the most eminent American climatologists has won a defamation suit against two ultraconservative bloggers who had questioned his research on…
When electoral disinformation grows
Disinformation has become an increasingly important variable in elections. We see it in Taiwan, as we may fear in Europe or the United States this year. This is an arch-classic…
Europe grapples with information warfare
The European Commission is concerned about Russian disinformation which risks interfering in elections in Europe. The Vice-President of the European Commission, Vera Jourova, even speaks “ massive manipulation weapon »…
Fired Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson launches Twitter show
The star host, accused of having relayed false accusations of fraud in the last American presidential election and brutally dismissed from the conservative channel Fox News on April 24, 2023,…
Faced with the chaos of the info, a journalist offers an atypical personal development guide
The media workshop receives Benoît Raphaël, a French journalist and entrepreneur who publishes Information: indigestiona book about information chaos and how we can individually deal with it. The finding of…
conservative host Tucker Carlson quits Fox News
It is an event in the American media-political world. The information fell on Monday April 24: the very famous presenter and columnist Tucker Carlson leaves the ultra-conservative channel Fox News,…
Adrenochrome theory: infox feed on the void, by Gérald Bronner
“Nature abhors a vacuum,” said Aristotle. The same could be said of the contemporary cognitive market, which sees the different representations of the world confront each other in competition without…
On TikTok, young French people increasingly distrustful of science
A new Ifop poll published on January 12, which was conducted among a representative sample of 11-24 year olds, highlighted a worrying phenomenon on social networks. That of the growing…