Meta’s New Service Targets Public Figures with Fake News Ads Meta, the smartphone company, has introduced a new service to protect public figures, particularly politicians and celebrities, from fake news ads. Common examples of such ads include those promoting cryptography or vitamin supplements, which often contain false claims. Meta’s new initiative involves using facial recognition technology to detect and prevent these scams from happening. A previously quoted tech correspondant, Jess Kelly, emphasized this approach, highlighting how Meta might block images from being published online if they contain problematic content. However,Meta claims that the issue arises from attackers, not Meta itself,…

Paulina Hennig-Kloska, the European Environment Minister of Poland, shared her insights during an informal summit of EU climate ministers in Warsaw. She emphasized the ongoing presence of fake news in the European Union, particularly concerning environmental, climate, and energy policy. As the standing leader of Poland’s peer institutions, she noted that the EU is increasingly being targeted by disinformation campaigns, particularly following the dramatic tragedy of the power failure in Spain and Portugal, which she cited as a trigger for a wave of conspiracy theories. “Hennig-Kloska expressed growing awareness of disinformation tactics used by EU political adversaries, calling it a…