We fact-checked some of the rumours spreading online about the Trump assassination attempt
Reuters Misinformation and conspiracy theories were spreading online after an assassination attempt on former US President Donald Trump at a campaign rally on Saturday. Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, was alleged to have shot at the Republican presidential candidate from a rooftop during the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, wounding Trump’s right ear. One spectator died and […]
Helpdesk: 3.2 billion images and 720,000 hours of video are shared online daily. Can you sort real from fake?
In an article first published on The Conversation, TJ THOMSON, DANIEL ANGUS, and PAULA DOOTSON, of Queensland University of Technology, look at how to sort the real from the fake online…