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TOPLINE Two people with familial ties to the White House spread a bizarre, baseless conspiracy theory on social media this week that linked billionaire Bill Gates and his work to aid in developing a coronavirus vaccine to an ulterior motive to control the masses via microchip, despite having been …
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Misinformation about a vaccine linked to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is “steadily rising” on social media, experts say. The warning comes from a team of Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) researchers who unveiled a new academic paper this week—(S)pin the Flu Vaccine: Recipes for …
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From the idea that drinking bleach can kill the coronavirs to a theory that the virus was created in a lab as a bioweapon, the COVID-19 pandemic has generated a flurry of misinformation, hatching more than 2,000 rumors, conspiracy theories and reports of discrimination, according to a new study. …
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IMAGE: COVID-19 a perfect storm for conspiracy theories – QUT research tracks Facebook rumours of 5G causing the pandemic. view more Credit: QUT Marketing and Communication As the global count of COVID-19 infections heads towards the 20M mark, the pandemic has created what the World Health …
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Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Here are the coronavirus stories Medscape’s editors around the globe think you need to know about today: Docs Fight Back Against Conspiracy Theories Last week, a self-branded collection of …
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Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Last week, a self-branded collection of “America’s Frontline Doctors” held a “White Coat Summit” in front of the US Supreme Court building. In their telling, they came to address a “massive disinformation …
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Claim: Viral text accurately outlines how biotechnology company Moderna is linked to Dr. Anthony Fauci, Bill Gates, George Soros, and Jeffrey Epstein. Snopes is still fighting an “infodemic” of rumors and misinformation surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, and you can help. Find out what we’ve …
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Andrew Wakefield was disgraced after falsely linking the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine to autism: “If we do have a [COVID-19] vaccine and people don’t take it because they’ve been corrupted, … a lot of people are going to get hurt,” says Scott Z. Burns. Despite chilling similarities between …
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Dancer, singer, songwriter, actor, director – Madonna has had quite the career. But the queen of pop’s latest reinvention came this week in the form of a video posted on Instagram that shared a coronavirus conspiracy theory with her 15 million followers. Madonna claimed a vaccine existed but was …
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