The ordeal raises concerns over how best to separate information from disinformation before it's too widely spread.
January 18, 2020, 10:23 AMCatch up on the developing stories making headlines.EU DisinfoLab, in cooperation with newsroom fact-checkers, has uncovered a far-right Polish media operation running a website that was making slight changes to real, existing stories and re-posting them to sow discord.
"Many articles were presented as being sourced from French mainstream media as a way to gain legitimacy," he said."In reality, articles were rewritten with different titles, unproven or false details to modify completely the meaning of some stories, and therefore to spread disinformation."EU DisinfoLab's Twitter feed documented how France Libre 24 wrote about a November 2019 soccer match in which an opposing team's fans lobbed racist slang at Mario Balotelli.
MORE: UK election suggests disinformation spread by politicians may be a bigger threat in 2020 than Russians or 'deepfakes' "You need to be more active in front of the news you are seeing or you are reading and to diversify your sources of information," Adamczyk exlained."It's also important to take time to think about who is talking to you, who might b behind the media or the website you have in front of you.
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