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We all know stories of scientists or respected doctors who “turn” into anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists. There’s Andrew Wakefield, who went from a respected doctor at London’s prestigious Royal Free Hospital to a disgraced anti-vaxxer who claimed vaccines cause autism. Over the years, he’s doubled …
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Severe winter storms have battered much of the United States this winter — most recently in Buffalo, New York — resulting in fatalities and injuries from tornadoes and dangerous travel conditions caused by blizzard blasts of ice and snow. Americans, many of them at least, have been glued to the TV …
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When Vladimir Putin announced the partial mobilization of reservists to bolster his war in Ukraine, thousands of people of fighting age fled the country. Protests broke out on the streets, and on the internet. For a brief moment, it appeared Russia might begin to see a unified anti-war movement. …
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A bumper crop of QAnon-aligned candidates ran for office during the U.S. midterms. Russia doubled down on its long-running bio lab conspiracy theory to justify its Ukraine invasion. Hard-right conspiracy theorists who would like Germany to recapture its moment of empire in 1871 staged a coup. It …
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This summer, we’ve been inundated with news of devastating heatwave after heatwave, unprecedented droughts, and raging wildfires. We’ve also been inundated with news and opinion on how European climate policies have left the continent in a position where it is over-reliant on Russian oil and gas to …
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Close your eyes, for a moment, and imagine the evening of November 7, 2012. Barack Obama had just won reelection in a hard-fought presidential race and the celebrity host of “The Apprentice” was stewing. Back then, Donald Trump was a mere reality TV star and a staunch proponent of the birther …
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Sign up here to get the next edition of this newsletter, straight to your inbox. In November, a Turkish lawyer named Haci Ali Ozhan appeared in a YouTube video. Dressed in a suit and tie and with a solemn bearing, he read out the mission of a new political party. “I am the founder of the Party for …
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Sign up here to get the next edition of this newsletter, straight to your inbox. AMAZON’S COVID-19 DISINFORMATION PROBLEM By Erica Hellerstein On Monday morning, I was chatting with a friend on WhatsApp when my messages abruptly stopped sending. A massive global outage had forced Facebook, …
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Sign up here to get the next edition of this newsletter, straight to your inbox. If you are in Afghanistan at the moment, trying to flee or figure out how to survive, it is safe to assume that you have bigger things than the pandemic to worry about. But the Taliban did make time for Covid-19 last …
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The global anti-vaccination industry, including influencers and followers, generates up to $1.1 billion in annual revenue for social media giants, according to a damning new report published this week. Anti-vaccine content creates a vast amount of engagement for leading technology platforms, …
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