Misinformation in the Healthcare Sector in Slovakia: An Analysis of Users’ Perceptions and Behaviour – A CEDMO Report Narrative In the years following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the healthcare landscape of Slovakia transformed into a battleground for a particularly insidious kind of virus: digital misinformation. The Central European Digital Media Observatory (CEDMO), a collaborative project tasked with detecting and analyzing disinformation trends in the region, conducted a deep dive into how Slovak users perceive and behave around health-related falsehoods. What emerges from their findings is not merely a catalog of hoaxes or vaccine conspiracy theories, but a complex,…

For over a year, Full Fact has been systematically testing the accuracy of some of the world’s most prominent AI chatbots. By posing questions based on the viral claims we were actively investigating, we aimed to see how tools like Gemini, Grok, and ChatGPT handle misinformation. The results of our trial paint a concerning picture: the chatbots made dozens of major errors, frequently presenting falsehoods as facts. While they were often able to identify straightforwardly incorrect claims, they repeatedly failed when confronted with sophisticated disinformation, particularly involving AI-generated images and videos. This highlights a critical challenge for users who increasingly…