US Christian musician Matthew West deletes ‘Modest Is Hottest’ YouTube video after pushback
RNS Christian musician Matthew West thought he was poking fun at overprotective dads with a new song Modest Is Hottest. Instead, he stepped into a firestorm about evangelical purity culture. Matthew West, an award-winning songwriter, performs during the North American Mission Board Send Luncheon on 14th June, at the Music City Center in Nashville, […]
Twitter to label deepfakes and other deceptive media
San Francisco, USReuters Twitter said on Tuesday it would start applying a label to tweets containing synthetic or deceptively edited forms of media, as social media platforms brace for a potential onslaught of misinformation ahead of the 2020 presidential election. The company also said it would remove any deliberately misleading manipulated media likely to cause […]
ESSAY: TOO MANY PEOPLE THINK SATIRICAL NEWS IS REAL
US academics R KELLY GARRETT, ROBERT BOND, and SHANNON POULSEN, in an article first published on The Conversation, discuss research findings showing many people are mistaking satirical news stories for real ones…