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Investors have demanded to know how failed mini-bond firm Basset & Gold’s potentially misleading adverts slipped the net, despite rules meaning they should have been checked. After the West Ham shirt sleeve sponsor became the latest mini-bond firm to go bust and lose 1,800 ordinary investors £36million, there is pressure on financial authorities to unpick … Read more
Donald Trump demanded Wednesday that social media platforms ‘clean up your act’ as he warned his administration will begin to regulate and even shutter such websites after Twitter, for the first time ever, fact-checked his tweets. He lamented in the Twitter thread that conservatives are being silenced and disproportionately regulated on social media websites like … Read more
President Trump got fact-checked by Twitter for suggesting that California’s mail-in balloting initiative would lead to substantial voter fraud in the November general election. ‘There is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In Ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent. Mail boxes will be robbed, ballots will be forged & even illegally printed out & fraudulently signed,’ Trump … Read more
Amazon accused of misleading watchdog over Deliveroo buy-up by claiming it will take a hit from Covid-19 when it’s really getting a boost By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 BST, 21 May 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 21 May 2020 Amazon has been accused of peddling ‘patently false’ information to boost its … Read more
More than a quarter of the most-viewed English-language COVID-19 videos on YouTube ‘contain fake or misleading information’, a study has revealed. Experts warned that fake news about COVID-19 is reaching far more people than in any previous pandemic — with the potential to cause serious harm. Good quality, accurate information put out by government bodies … Read more
Zoom quietly admits its claim of having 300 million daily active users was misleading The platform has corrected a blog post sent out last week Instead it says that it has 300 million daily meeting participants The change is significant as meeting participants can be counted multiple times Zoom still hasn’t provided a number of daily … Read more
Half of UK adults have been exposed to false or misleading information about coronavirus online in the last week, Ofcom study reveals The media regulator found confusion over true and false claims about COVID-19 One in four people are getting info about the pandemic 20 or more times a day But false claims — like that … Read more
The chilling truth about the size of your fridge: Makers are misleading customers over the amount of food they can hold, consumer experts claim Which? investigation found average fridge capacity is exaggerated by a third Worst models overstate amount they hold by equivalent of 5 bags of shopping Manufacturers measure volume of compartments once shelves … Read more
Twitter is testing a new feature that labels misinformation and fake news as ‘Harmfully Misleading’ by placing orange badges underneath the tweet Orange and red badges would be placed under the tweet with misinformation Fact-checkers and verified journalists will add the correct information The feature could be live as soon as March 5th, well ahead … Read more