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Raj K Raj/Hindustan Times via Getty Images “Covid is on its way out,” said Harsh Vardhan, India’s health minister, in early March. But, little more than a month later, a second wave of infections has thrown the country into chaos. Record numbers of more than 300,000 new Covid-19 cases are being …
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From unfounded global theories linking 5G technology and Covid-19, to widespread panics about nuclear exposure, radiation scares have been with us for more than a century. The term radiophobia was first used in the U.S. in the early 1900s. In the following century, fresh anxieties have accompanied …
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Welcome to the Infodemic. We are tracking how disinformation is shaping the global pandemic response. Today — from vaccine news that didn’t make the headlines to increasing levels of Covid-19 chaos in Iran — here are this week’s narratives, which have grabbed our attention and deserve yours. Pfizer …
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When video blogger Natalia Chernikhovskaya looked out the window of her Moscow apartment building she saw an antenna tower with white panels and a circular dish in the center. At first, she never suspected it could be the source of unexplained headaches and pains that she began experiencing this …
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Anti-5G campaigners and conspiracy theorists have gone into overdrive since the outbreak of the coronavirus began. In groups and forums across social media, they have been working overtime to try to draw parallels between the pandemic and the global rollout of 5G, leaving facts by the wayside. …
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As Facebook pledges to tackle urgent and potentially dangerous forms of misinformation about the coronavirus, conspiracy theorists on the platform have gone into overdrive. Yesterday, a Facebook video rapidly spread through COVID-19-related community WhatsApp groups in London. “We know that …
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The resurgence of measles in the United States and the UK, a polio outbreak in the Philippines, HPV-vaccine resistance in Japan — these headlines from the past year have roots in global anti-vaccine campaigns that stretch back over 200 years. Concerned parents, religious groups, liberals and …
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Barely two weeks into the new year, pediatrician Dr. Nicole Baldwin sat at her computer in her Cincinnati, Ohio practice. She watched as a Facebook notification pinged in. Then another. And another – until it became a flood. The comments were vicious: “bloodthirsty lying bitch of the day goes to …
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In March 2019, a teenager from Ohio, Ethan Lindenberger, sat before a Senate Committee in Washington. Wearing glasses, a suit and tie, his hair carefully combed to the side, he described how his mother refused to vaccinate him. Her beliefs, which he began challenging aged 13, were reinforced by …
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