World Map of Fake News

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The most active League supporting Facebook page, “Lega SalviniPremier Santa Teresa di riva,” which has now also been removed by Facebook, has been the biggestrecent sharer of a video purporting to show migrants smashing a police car. The video, whichhas almost 10 million views, is actually a scene from a movie and has been debunked severaltimes over the years, but is still widely shared. The most active League supporting Facebook page, “Lega SalviniPremier Santa Teresa di riva,” which has now also been removed by Facebook, has been the biggestrecent sharer of a video purporting to show migrants smashing a police car. The video, whichhas almost 10 million views, is actually a scene from a movie and has been debunked severaltimes over the years, but is still widely shared.

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Misinformation and disinformation related to Kashmir is widely prevalent.There have been multiple instances of pictures from the Syrian and the Iraqi civil wars being passed off as from the Kashmir conflict with the intention of fuelling unrest and backing insurgencies.

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One of the first times we saw deep fake news was when we say it being used on an animation of President Barack Obama. Deepfakes (a portmanteau of "deep learning" and "fake" are media that take a person in an existing image or video and replace them with someone else's likeness using artificial neural networks.They often combine and superimpose existing media onto source media using machine learning techniques known as autoencoders and generative adversarial networks (GANs).Deepfakes have garnered widespread attention for their uses in celebrity pornographic videos, revenge porn, fake news, hoaxes, and financial fraud.This has elicited responses from both industry and government to detect and limit their use.

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Perhaps the most commonly criticised claim by the Leave campaign was that voting to leave the EU would allow for increased spending on the NHS of £350m a week.[54][55] Vote Leave claimed that the UK sends £350 million to the EU every week.[56] The Office for National Statistics, quoting analysis from the European Commission, states the UK's actual net average annual contribution to the EU budget, taken from a five-year average from 2014 to 2018, when its annual rebate and public and private sector receipts are excluded, is £7.7 bn.[57] Divided by 52, this equates to £150 million per week.Sir John Major claimed that Vote Leave had deliberately misled voters by using the gross contribution to the EU before the automatically deducted UK Rebate.[58] The gross contribution is the amount the UK would pay under the standard formula before any discounts and rebates. The UK currently gets a 40% discount from the gross contribution which was negotiated by Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s (worth about £144 million) plus various agricultural, economic development and scientific research 'rebates' (worth approximately a further £96 million).[59]Elements of the Leave campaign have been identified as exemplifying "post-truth politics", in which debate is framed largely by appeals to emotion rather than the details of policy or objective factual analysis.[60][61][62]