Swimming Australia to take proactive, world-first approach to 'scary' fake news stories
- Swimming Australia has taken aim at the scourge of fake news and misinformation about its athletes head-on with an innovative world-first program, christened flickbait.
- Designed primarily to help protect athletes, Swimming Australia has built a new resource, to be housed on its website, where fake news will be housed and debunked.
- Swimming Australia said it had tracked sports and human-interest pages promoting fabricated content, be it anti-transgender narratives about Olympic swimmers or fabricated comments from high-performance coaches.
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- Swimming Australia has taken aim at the scourge of fake news and misinformation about its athletes head-on with an innovative world-first program, christened flickbait.
- Designed primarily to help protect athletes, Swimming Australia has built a new resource, to be housed on its website, where fake news will be housed and debunked.
- Swimming Australia said it had tracked sports and human-interest pages promoting fabricated content, be it anti-transgender narratives about Olympic swimmers or fabricated comments from high-performance coaches.
Sources: ABC Australia