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Twitter and Facebook have ignored calls to ban Robert F Kennedy Jr from their platforms despite concerns over his latest documentary which critics say appears aimed at discouraging black Americans from getting vaccinated against Covid-19. Disinformation experts want the social media platforms to …
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When George Orwell’s prophetic book “1984” was published in 1949, there was no way even he could have known what a visionary he was. A novel about a dystopian future featuring an all-knowing, all-seeing, all-powerful central government, there was no way anything like that could ever happen in the …
Read MoreIn October 2019, shortly before the COVID outbreak, Gates and other powerful individuals began planning how to censor vaccine safety advocates from social media during a table-top simulation of a worldwide pandemic, known as Event 201. Over the last two weeks, Facebook and other social media sites …
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With vaccination against COVID-19 in full swing, social platforms like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter say they’ve stepped up their fight against misinformation that aims to undermine trust in the vaccines. But problems abound. For years, the same platforms have allowed anti-vaccination propaganda …
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Such unhinged conspiracy theories once ran rampant on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. But months of purging accounts that trafficked heavily in the baseless QAnon ideology — especially after it helped fuel the Jan. 6 siege on the U.S. Capitol — have reduced those voices on leading social media …
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“Final preparations today for Devil Storm.” For disciples of QAnon — the viral, conspiracy-ridden domestic terrorist threat — this seemingly innocuous post on the Facebook page of the U.S. Army’s 1st Brigade Combat Team of the 82nd Airborne Division on Dec. 7 was a sign. Rather than an update on a …
Read MoreOn Friday afternoon, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (still called the CDC, even though they added a ‘P’) released a heretical report about mask-wearing and COVID-19. The report, authored by at least a dozen medical doctors, PhD researchers, and, bizarrely, a handful of attorneys, …
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Posted on March 2, 2021We are collaborating with FactCheck.org, a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, in an effort to identify misinformation and to ensure news consumers get the facts. This story first appeared on FactCheck.org.A baseless conspiracy …
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High levels of threat perception in situations with informational uncertainty impeded societal learning and fostered conspiracy beliefs. These findings, from a panel study of perceptions about COVID-19, were published in Personality and Individual Differences. Data for this study were collected by …
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Twitter is bolstering its efforts to point out misinformation on the platform, a long-standing problem across social media that has taken on new urgency amid last year’s election and through the pandemic. “Starting today, we will begin applying labels to Tweets that may contain misleading …
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