Facebook and YouTube are still full of covid misinformation

July 22, 2021 chemtrails

Archived 5 years ago from The Washington Post
Facebook and YouTube are still full of covid misinformation

“For a long time the companies tolerated that because they were like, ‘Who cares if the Earth is flat, who cares if you believe in chemtrails?’ It seemed harmless,” said Hany Farid, a misinformation researcher and professor at the University of California at Berkeley, referring to a long-standing …

Twitter Suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene for Posting Coronavirus Misinformation

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July 19, 2021 big tech, covid19, marjorie taylor greene

Archived 5 years ago from The New York Times
Twitter Suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene for Posting Coronavirus Misinformation

SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter said on Monday that it was suspending Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene from its service for 12 hours after she posted messages that violated its policy against sharing misleading information about the coronavirus. Ms. Greene, Republican of Georgia, has been an outspoken …

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July 19, 2021

Archived 5 years ago from The Washington Post
Analysis | Conspiracy theories are common on the right — but few Republicans adhere to all of them

We can use this, though, to figure out the overlap with climate change and the voter-fraud claim. So, for example, 14 percent of Republicans both won’t get a coronavirus vaccine and think climate change isn’t happening. Twice as many think that rampant fraud happened and say they won’t get a …

52 years after the moon landing, Republicans reject science and America is unraveling | Will Bunch

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July 18, 2021 antivax, fauci, moon landing, nasa

Archived 5 years ago from The Philadelphia Inquirer
52 years after the moon landing, Republicans reject science and America is unraveling | Will Bunch

There is no Democratic or Republican way to land on the moon. I was 10 years old on the Sunday afternoon of July 20, 1969, when Apollo 11 made its more-hairy-than-we-realized touchdown on the lunar surface and Neil Armstrong famously said, “The Eagle has landed.” Even at the tail end of the fraught …

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July 15, 2021

Archived 5 years ago from KUER 90.1
Do Conspiracy Theories Thrive In Religious Groups?

Last May, a Public Religion Research Institute survey found that nearly one in five members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believes in QAnon — placing them just about in the middle of the Christian denominations polled. Scholar Matthew Harris traces conspiracy beliefs among LDS …

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July 15, 2021 cia

Archived 5 years ago from USA TODAY
‘First conspiracy of the internet age’: How the TWA Flight 800 explosion sparked online rumors for years

On July 17, 1996, a Boeing 747 exploded in midair off the coast of Long Island. The flight from New York City to Rome with a stop in Paris broke apart and fell into the ocean below. The 230 people onboard Trans World Airlines Flight 800 perished. As quickly as the wreckage plunged into the Atlantic …

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July 15, 2021 2020 election, qanon

Archived 5 years ago from Rolling Stone
A Video Spreading Conspiracy Theories About a Satanic Sex-Trafficking Ring Is Going Viral

A 90-minute anti-child sex trafficking documentary by a Polish filmmaker promoting various tropes related to the conspiracy theory QAnon has gone viral on TikTok and YouTube, despite both platforms’ purported efforts to halt the spread of viral misinformation. A highly incendiary, sensationalized …

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July 14, 2021

Archived 5 years ago from WBFO
Conspiracy theories: How to identify them and help your loved ones separate fact from fiction

Conspiracy theories: they run as far back as the Salem witch trials and we bump into them quite often now a days on social media. But sometimes separating fact from fiction isn’t easy, and perhaps even more difficult is helping a loved one sort out a belief which lacks backing. So how do we …

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July 14, 2021 trump

Archived 5 years ago from Associated Press
AP FACT CHECK: Trump stokes Jan. 6 conspiracy theories

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is falsely describing the circumstances of Ashli Babbitt’s death as he foments conspiracy theories about the siege of the Capitol on Jan. 6 and all the “love in the air” that day. In comments over the past week, Trump insinuated that a Democratic …

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July 14, 2021 antivax, cdc, russia, vaers

Archived 5 years ago
Conspiracy theories are costing lives | Opinion | dnews.com – Moscow-Pullman Daily News

In 2014, two researchers from the University of Chicago published a paper entitled, “Conspiracy Theories and the Paranoid Style(s) of Mass Opinion” (American Journal of Political Science). Using data from four nationally representative surveys, they found roughly half of adult Americans routinely …

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