#informationdissemination — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #informationdissemination, aggregated by home.social.
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The Conversation: 41% of surveyed Australian teens now get their news from AI: new research. “Since 2017, we have been tracking young people’s media engagement, to understand how they get their news. This time, we found some young people are bypassing traditional outlets, reducing their use of social media sources and getting their news from artificial intelligence (AI) summaries using […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/01/41-of-surveyed-australian-teens-now-get-their-news-from-ai-new-research-the-conversation/ -
NPR: We tested how AI chatbots would handle foreign propaganda. They did surprisingly well. “Since AI chatbots exploded in popularity and Google started offering AI-generated answers, people who research foreign influence campaigns have expressed concern that some governments may poison AI-generated answers with false narratives. But an experiment NPR conducted with NewsGuard, a company that […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/31/npr-we-tested-how-ai-chatbots-would-handle-foreign-propaganda-they-did-surprisingly-well/ -
Arkansas Times: Despite debunkings, misinformation about Little Rock’s ‘New Africa’ persists. “Misleading social media posts about a Little Rock housing development established by a Muslim organization have been spreading online since April, fomenting Islamophobia among gullible Facebook boomers and Republican state legislators. We talked to the people behind the project to see what’s […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/05/arkansas-times-despite-debunkings-misinformation-about-little-rocks-new-africa-persists/ -
The Conversation: Meta‑backed research finds exposure to ‘untrustworthy’ social media is rare. The fine print is less reassuring. “A new study published today in Science Advances offers the most rigorous answers yet. It comes from a collaboration between Meta and academic researchers who studied the 2020 United States election. It was run from inside the machine – on the live feeds of […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/31/the-conversation-meta-backed-research-finds-exposure-to-untrustworthy-social-media-is-rare-the-fine-print-is-less-reassuring/ -
PressGazette: Daily Beast gains on Reddit and Facebook as Google traffic falls . “Reddit and Facebook have made up for falling referral traffic from Google for the Daily Beast. The site’s chief content and creative officer Joanna Coles was interviewed in Cannes by Wall Street Journal editor Emma Tucker alongside Vox Media CEO Jim Bankoff.”
