Misinformation stories

Deepfake technology can be used maliciously or with unethical intent, and this means deepfakes are a potentially dangerous tool.

Long story short, it's often the case that misinformation, threat and extremism link closely to cybersecurity issues and cyber harm.

New tools, applications, and software have enabled project collaboration to continue remotely, both between employees within an organisation and with its clients.

"To deal with these cyber risks, businesses and authorities need to establish cybersecurity practices and policies that can evolve and adapt to the multifaceted cyberthreats."

"Big Tech has made mega profits by turning a blind eye to the true extent of misinformation on their platforms."

Australians want to see greater transparency about the extent of the problem, new polling has found.

This time last year nobody predicted that the world would be battling a pandemic and fighting off hordes of cybercriminals using the pandemic as a topical way of peddling their wares.

The increase in misinformation and fake domains have left organisations perceiving the threat level to be ‘very significant’, with a third planning greater emphasis on their ability to respond in coming months.

Enforcing the existing law will be difficult enough, and it is not clear that any new law would be able to do better. Overseas attempts to draft law for deepfakes have been seriously criticised.

“We also show related articles from fact-checkers for more context and notify users if a story they have shared is rated as false.”

Lies, fake news and misinformation – this is the age of the internet, and Twitter bots are largely responsible for perpetrating it.

"Some of the worst offenders use a technique known as ‘cloaking’ to circumvent Facebook’s review processes..."