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Lagos, Nigeria CNN — British media regulator Ofcom has imposed sanctions against a channel founded by Nigerian megachurch preacher Chris Oyakhilome for airing “unsubstantiated claims” linking 5G to the coronavirus pandemic. The regulator said while it does not oppose broadcasts airing …
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Claim: Martial arts movie star Chuck Norris has died from the COVID-19 coronavirus disease. Snopes is still fighting an “infodemic” of rumors and misinformation surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, and you can help. Find out what we’ve learned and how to inoculate yourself against COVID-19 …
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ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Stephan Lewandowsky studies the way people think, and in particular, why they engage in conspiracy theories. So when the cognitive scientist from England’s …
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On February 2, more than a month before the World Health Organization deemed the spread of COVID-19 a pandemic, it declared that the virus had led to a “massive infodemic.” WHO observed “an overabundance of information—some accurate and some not—that makes it hard for people to find trustworthy …
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As the COVID-19 continues to spread throughout the country and the world, misinformation surrounding the coronavirus is also spreading at an alarming rate. In a video series TIME is producing with Katie Couric, Dr. Emily Vraga, an Associate Professor of Health Communication at the University of …
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Source: CDC/Public Domain Back in February, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned about an anticipated “infodemic” of COVID-19 misinformation. Unsurprisingly, the “infodemic” has become a reality just three months later, with mundane misinformation and more outlandish conspiracy theories about …
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Claim: People vaccinated for seasonal influenza face higher chances of catching SARS-COV-2, which causes COVID-19, or testing positive for the virus when they do not actually have it. Snopes is still fighting an “infodemic” of rumors and misinformation surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, and you can …
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The uneasy overlap between the “wellness” movement often associated with affluent, presumptively-left-of-center (though maybe not really that far left in the first place) white women, and more overt conspiracy-peddlers of the far right is nothing new. Three years ago, Goop was spotted selling …
Read MoreCheckMate is a weekly newsletter from RMIT FactLab which recaps the latest in the world of fact checking and misinformation, drawing on the work of FactLab and its sister organisation, RMIT ABC Fact Check.You can read the latest edition below, and subscribe to have the next newsletter delivered …
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Conspiracy theories have now reached the heart of society. It may still be early for any empirical data, but over the past few days I’ve seen plenty of anecdotal evidence: my Facebook timeline has been full of comments speaking out against virologists, Bill Gates, vaccinations, Angela Merkel and …
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