Vaccine hesitancy in South Africa: COVID experience highlights …

January 27, 2023 5g, antivax, bill gates, china

Archived 4 years ago from Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
Vaccine hesitancy in South Africa: COVID experience highlights …

In recent weeks, China has reported a spike in new cases of COVID and related deaths. Some countries have imposed travel restrictions as a result. But most – including South Africa – have not. Instead, the South African government’s approach is to increase testing, boost surveillance, and, most …

Conspiracy

January 26, 2023 5g, antivax, epstein, marjorie taylor greene, moon landing, tuskegee experiment

Archived 4 years ago from Yahoo! Voices
Science has finally cracked the mystery of why so many people believe in conspiracy theories

People don’t buy into conspiracy theories because of ignorance or social isolation. They do it because of a more prevalent personality quirk: overconfidence.Getty Images; iStock; Alyssa Powell/Insider When it comes to the spread of cockamamie conspiracy theories, Twitter was a maximum viable …

Conspiracy

January 25, 2023 5g, bill gates, covid19, qanon

Archived 3 years ago from KATU
WSU: Fastest-spreading COVID conspiracy theories focused on QAnon, 5G networks, Bill Gates

PULLMAN, Wash. — A study done by Washington State University says that the most popular and widely spread COVID-19 conspiracy theories focused on evil, perceived bad actors, and government secrets. Nearly 400,000 posts on Twitter were analyzed to gather the dataIn the study, researchers identified …

Conspiracy

January 25, 2023 5g, antivax, bill gates, great reset

Archived 4 years ago from The Economist
How a Manchester United superfan became a conspiracy theorist

By Jack Shenker For @RedIssue, a Twitter account with nearly 60,000 followers dedicated to supporters of Manchester United football club, 2020 began like any other year – sardonically. “So the transfer window is now open everyone!” declared a typical post, alongside a video of Alexis Sanchez, a …

Conspiracy

January 25, 2023 5g, antivax, bill gates, covid19, qanon

Archived 4 years ago from EurekAlert
COVID-19 conspiracy theories that spread fast

PULLMAN, Wash. – In the early pandemic, conspiracy theories that were shared the most on Twitter highlighted malicious purposes and secretive actions of supposed bad actors behind the crisis, according to an analysis of nearly 400,000 posts. In the study, researchers identified commonalities in …

Why do Russians trust Putin about Ukraine, but not the Covid-vaccine?

Conspiracy

January 23, 2023 5g, bill gates, china, russia

Archived 4 years ago from Sciencenorway
Why do Russians trust Putin about Ukraine, but not the Covid-vaccine?

When Russian propaganda was about people’s private lives and things individuals themselves can understand, it failed miserably. Researchers Natalia Moen-Larsen and Ilya Yablokov have examined the conversations between 130,000 members of the ‘Covid-19 resistance group’ on the social media platform …

Africa Is Starkly Unvaccinated, and Starkly Unvanquished by COVID.

COVID-19

January 20, 2023 5g, antivax, cdc, chloroquine, ivermectin

Archived 4 years ago from Epoch Times
Africa Is Starkly Unvaccinated, and Starkly Unvanquished by COVID.

Let’s keep in mind that most striking continent on an otherwise bleak world map, [1] as we examine the following map, which shows Africa’s burden of COVID cases since the beginning of COVID. [2] Here is Africa’s relative share of COVID cases since the beginning of COVID: One would reasonably expect …

Research analyzes spread of COVID-19’s most common early … – Grady College

Conspiracy

January 18, 2023 5g, bill gates, china, qanon

Archived 4 years ago
Research analyzes spread of COVID-19’s most common early … – Grady College

The early stages of the pandemic created a breeding ground for COVID-19 conspiracy theories, which, on Twitter, spread almost as fast as the virus itself. But out of the pandemic’s most prominent early conspiracies, which were shared the most and why? To find out, a team of researchers, led by …

Grief and conspiracy collide in Russia’s ‘Council of Mothers and Wives’

Ukraine

January 17, 2023 5g, antivax, cia, russia

Archived 4 years ago from Coda Story
Grief and conspiracy collide in Russia’s ‘Council of Mothers and Wives’

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. …

Conspiratorial Thinking Is an American Disease

Conspiracy

January 17, 2023 2020 election, 5g, alex jones, bill gates, china, deep state, george soros, jfk assassination, maga, marjorie taylor greene, qanon

Archived 4 years ago from The Atlantic
Conspiratorial Thinking Is an American Disease

As an American living in Britain for the past decade, I’ve had a front-row seat to two dysfunctional democracies hell-bent on embarrassing themselves. President Donald Trump warned that a hurricane was “one of the wettest we’ve ever seen, from the standpoint of water.” Prime Minister Liz Truss …

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