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How Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Spreads Anti-vaxxer Disinformation Using Facebook
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Archived 5 years ago from Vanity Fair
How Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Spreads Anti-vaxxer Disinformation Using Facebook

On a sunny Sunday in September, a crowd of over a hundred gathered at Malibu Fig Ranch, a biodynamic farm situated just across the Pacific Coast Highway from Point Dume, where the ocean is cerulean and home prices on the coastal bluffs soar into eight figures. The crowd at the farm that afternoon …

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A French coronavirus conspiracy video stayed on YouTube and Facebook for months
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Archived 5 years ago from POLITICO.eu
A French coronavirus conspiracy video stayed on YouTube and Facebook for months

Press play to listen to this article PARIS — Until very recently, a French COVID-19 conspiracy video called “Hold-up” was just a click away.  The film was still easily accessible online more than six months after its release in November last year, including on mainstream online platforms like …

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A Case Of Graphical Correlations: Making Sense Of India’s COVID-19 Surge – OpEd
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Archived 5 years ago from Eurasia Review
A Case Of Graphical Correlations: Making Sense Of India’s COVID-19 Surge – OpEd

India is currently witnessing a COVID-19 surge of unprecedented proportions, with an allegedly triple-mutant strain stretching the nation’s healthcare infrastructure to the limits.  The uncertainty hanging over the nation is compounded by viral despatches of dead bodies piling up in morgues; of …

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Passports, pauses, and Pfizer: Here’s where Covid-19 misinformation went in April
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Archived 5 years ago from Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard
Passports, pauses, and Pfizer: Here’s where Covid-19 misinformation went in April

Ed. note: Here at Nieman Lab, we’re long-time fans of the work being done at First Draft, which is working to protect communities around the world from harmful information (sign up for its daily and weekly briefings). We’re happy to share some First Draft stories with readers. This is the first …

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COVID-19 Conspiracy Beliefs Increased among Users of Conservative and Social Media – Annenberg School for Communication
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Archived 1 year ago from Nature
COVID-19 Conspiracy Beliefs Increased among Users of Conservative and Social Media – Annenberg School for Communication

AbstractHow good are people at judging the veracity of news? We conducted a systematic literature review and pre-registered meta-analysis of 303 effect sizes from 67 experimental articles evaluating accuracy ratings of true and fact-checked false news (NParticipants = 194,438 from 40 countries …

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COVID-19 Conspiracy Beliefs Increased among Users of Conservative and Social Media
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Archived 1 year ago from Annenberg School for Communication
COVID-19 Conspiracy Beliefs Increased among Users of Conservative and Social Media

Photo Credit: Mika Baumeister / Unsplash Belief in conspiracies about the COVID-19 pandemic increased through the early months of the U.S. outbreak among people who reported being heavy users of conservative and social media, a study by Annenberg Public Policy Center researchers has found. …

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Meet Christiane Northrup, doctor of disinformation –
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Archived 5 years ago from Press Herald
Meet Christiane Northrup, doctor of disinformation –

Christiane Northrup in 2001. John Ewing/Staff Photographer The auditorium at Rhema Bible Training College in suburban Tulsa, Oklahoma, was filled with more than 4,000 unmasked people and onstage sat dozens more when Maine’s celebrity physician, Dr. Christiane Northrup, stepped up to the podium the …

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Is Amazon recommending books on QAnon and white nationalism? Browsing books can lead to extremist rabbit hole
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Archived 5 years ago from USA TODAY
Is Amazon recommending books on QAnon and white nationalism? Browsing books can lead to extremist rabbit hole

Amazon’s book recommendation algorithms that help customers discover new titles may have a dark side. A new report from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue says these algorithms steer people to books about conspiracy theories and extremism, sometimes introducing them to the work of conspiracy …

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Majority of Disinformation Dozen Allowed to Keep Spreading Anti-Vax Message Despite Big Tech Pledge to Crack Down
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Archived 5 years ago from PR Newswire
Majority of Disinformation Dozen Allowed to Keep Spreading Anti-Vax Message Despite Big Tech Pledge to Crack Down

WASHINGTON, April 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The nation’s most prominent anti-vaccine leaders have continued to spread misinformation in violation of terms of service of Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, one month after Big Tech leaders vowed at a Congressional hearing they would crack down on the …

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