Posts tagged "fake news"

In the federal budget, there were few major surprises when it came to technology spending. Here are a few other tech items that have been sprinkled throughout the budget.

A growing number of fake sites and services are offering to purchase fake LinkedIn followers and engagement, or provide industry ‘awards’, dodgy testimonials and listicles. 

In this digital age, it's easy for anonymous people to post malicious, fraudulent reviews about a business. So what can be done to stop this practice?

Scam emails claiming to be from LocalBitcoins have hit email inboxes across the world, trying to trick users into handing over thousands in Bitcoin.

Elon Musk has, once again, become the victim of a wave of bitcoin scams, as pressure on Twitter to tackle the issue intensifies.

This year saw a decline in the trust of news outlets, social media and ‘people like us’. So what does this mean for the online presence of small businesses?

There has been a massive surge in dodgy operators using so-called ‘celebrity endorsement’ to scam consumers into buying products. Shark Tank investor Naomi Simson is just one high-profile Australian to be affected.

A number of fake online advertisements for Bitcoin and cryptocurrency trading platforms have been fraudulently impersonating judges and investors on Channel Ten's Shark Tank, with judge Steve Baxter warning followers on Twitter the ads are a "scam".

When it comes to advances in technology, it’s the companies that are able to get ahead of the curb that reap the benefits.

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A bot (short for robot) performs highly repetitive tasks by automatically gathering or posting information based on a set of algorithms. The…