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Conspiracies related to the 5G technology
Conspiracy theorists who discount the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines and other public-health mandates are often portrayed in the media as right-wing. That’s for good reason: a not-insignificant number of the most vocal conspiracists tie their ideology firmly to President Donald Trump and …
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Misinformation flooding some of Alberta’s biggest online communities has become a major problem during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to three volunteer Reddit moderators in Edmonton. In separate interviews with CBC News, the moderators said the number of posts pushing misinformation and …
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Vaccine Claims Lead to St. Louis, YouTube Disagreement IE 11 Not Supported For optimal browsing, we recommend Chrome, Firefox or Safari browsers. St. Louis County, Mo., said they will no longer use YouTube to host video recordings of public meetings after YouTube again temporarily blocked video of …
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Internet feeds swarm with cats and bots and trolls. Malicious posts, disguised on behalf of foreign agents trying to sow political and social chaos, compete for attention in comment threads, social media ads, and sophisticated Big Data-assisted influence campaigns. It can be challenging to connect …
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.tnt-restrict-img-4c1b3970-1cef-59fc-b88d-38d8bbbf0ea1 { max-width: 1050px; } A pamphlet about COVID-19 vaccines sits on a chair at the wall during a St. Louis County Council meeting held to discuss and vote on upholding a countywide mask mandate resolution at the Lawrence K. Roos County Government …
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The BBC’s chairman Richard Sharp is calling for tighter regulation of the world’s major social networks and platforms to crackdown on disinformation and fake news. Speaking at the RTS Convention in Cambridge today, Sharp wants the BBC “to define itself globally as a pre-eminent purveyor of facts in …
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In the 19th century, we had snake oil salesmen. Today, we have Amazon—or so Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D–Mass.) seems to suggest. If not the salesmen themselves, then Amazon is certainly the enabler, the means by which the salesmen successfully lure their gullible customers, at least according to …
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The pandemic and associated lockdowns have given rise to an acceleration in ‘fake news’ around the world over the last year. The phenomenon of mis- and disinformation takes root, evolves and proliferates and can cause real world harm. In this blog post, Pratik Dattani, of consulting group Economic …
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Like the Texas Rangers of yore rounding up gangs of cattle rustlers and gunslingers, another Texas outfit led by Kathleen Berryman is after a different kind of outlaw: fraudsters in the wild, wild west of internet email scams. But the scammers Berryman tracks down run a sophisticated scheme …
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More than 500 websites have promoted misinformation about the coronavirus – including debunked claims about vaccines, according to a firm that rates the credibility of websites. NewsGuard announced Wednesday that, of the more than 6,700 websites it has analyzed, 519 have published false information …
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