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Feb 13th 2021 “I JUST BELIEVE strongly that Facebook shouldn’t be the arbiter of truth of everything that people say online,” Mark Zuckerberg, the social-media boss, said last year. Yet despite Mr Zuckerberg’s hope, that is what Facebook has become. Like a power company, Facebook can illuminate …
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You may have heard the outlandish claim: Bill Gates is using the Covid-19 vaccine to implant microchips in everyone so he can track where they go. It’s false, of course, debunked repeatedly by journalists and fact-checking organizations. Yet the falsehood persists online — in fact, it’s one of the …
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CoronaCheck is RMIT ABC Fact Check’s weekly email newsletter dedicated to fighting the misinformation infodemic surrounding the coronavirus outbreak. You can read the latest edition below, and subscribe to have the next newsletter delivered straight to your inbox. CoronaCheck #52 Welcome to …
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After devoting months of airtime to the baseless conspiracy theory of a rigged presidential election, the Trump-friendly One America News Network is eyeing potential legal exposure as the threat of litigation looms. The ultra-conservative news outlet, based in San Diego, has already been named in …
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Instagram has blocked the account of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., saying he used it to spread misinformation about vaccines. He’s seen here last summer, speaking to a crowd in Berlin, at an event that highlighted coronavirus skepticism and conspiracy theories. Sean Gallup/Getty Images hide caption toggle …
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Facebook announces that it is removing false claims about COVID-19 vaccines debunked by public health experts. Photo by: Igor Golovniov / SOPA Images / Sipa USA Facebook is expanding its efforts to fight misinformation on vaccines and the COVID-19 pandemic. On Monday, the company announced that it …
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Open up any social media app on your phone and you’ll see it: links to COVID-19 information from trustworthy sources. Here, a Twitter screen reads, “No, 5G isn’t causing coronavirus.” Image: Michele Abercrombie/NPR Open up any social media app on your phone and you’ll likely see links to COVID-19 …
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When Sharon McMahon scrolled through social media in the months leading up to last year’s presidential election, she said found herself horrified by the amount of “straight misinformation” filling her feed. “It was just shockingly wrong,” McMahon, a Minnesota mom of four, told CNN. “Like not even a …
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Facebook is expanding the list of false claims on COVID-19 and vaccines that are banned from its platform and from its subsidiary Instagram, the company announced late Monday. The expanded list of banned claims includes the idea that “COVID-19 is man-made or manufactured,” that “vaccines are not …
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Facebook announced Monday a major clampdown on the spread of what the tech giant considers to be “false claims” about COVID-19 and vaccines.Moving forward the company will be removing from its platform any misinformation regarding the coronavirus and vaccines, including claims that the virus was …
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