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Anti-vaccination content should be “stamped-out” on social media, Labour has said. With hopes rising of a COVID-19 jab being rolled out by the end of the year, the opposition has called for emergency legislation to “stamp out dangerous anti-vax content”. The party wants the government to bring …
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© Provided by The Independent The government should bring forward emergency legislation to “stamp out” dangerous anti-vax misinformation ahead of the roll-out of the Covid-19 vaccine, Labour has said. The shadow culture secretary, Jo Stevens, and the shadow health secretary, Jonathan Ashworth, have …
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British and American state intelligence agencies are “weaponizing truth” to quash vaccine hesitancy as both nations prepare for mass inoculations, in a recently announced “cyber war” to be commanded by AI-powered arbiters of truth against information sources that challenge official narratives. *** …
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Scientists working on COVID-19 vaccines around the globe have come together as part of a campaign to communicate their research to the public. The project, called Team Halo, aims to directly inform citizens using social media platforms such as TikTok. The collaboration was set up by the United …
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The election is over, but the misinformation age is just beginning. While President Donald Trump, who has been a major disseminator of falsehoods, lost the election to Democratic challenger Joe Biden, the allure of conspiracy theories, misleading videos and digital lies will endure. Experts say the …
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When the coronavirus pandemic first became serious back in March, Elissa McKay started noticing more and more troubling social media posts appearing in her feed. “It ran the entire spectrum from it [COVID] is no worse than the flu, all the way up to it has been planned, this is a hoax, it doesn’t …
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If you vote for tyrants, you get tyranny. This is what millions of Joe Biden supporters are about to discover if their candidate manages to steal the election and seize control of the White House. A prominent member of Biden’s Covid-19 taskforce, a CIA-linked operative named Luciana Borio, says …
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Factually is a newsletter about fact-checking and misinformation from Poynter’s International Fact-Checking Network & the American Press Institute’s Accountability Project. Sign up here. Pfizer’s announcement this week that it had a 90% effective vaccine against COVID-19 provided a glimpse of the …
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Topline President Donald Trump falsely tweeted Thursday that millions of votes intended for him were deleted nationwide due to systematic voting machine errors, a thoroughly debunked conspiracy theory that was spawned in a murky corner of the pro-Trump internet, picked up by a well-known fake news …
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Twitter took more than an hour to flag a highly misleading video shared by Donald Trump, which baselessly pushed claims of ballot fraud and was retweeted more than 70,000 times before the platform took action. The president, who lost the US election to Joe Biden last week, shared a video of …
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