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In 2021 the U.S. surgeon general called on physicians and public health scientists to combat misinformation on social media. Many answered the plea, and many have faced unprecedented levels of harassment on social media as a result.A new research letter published yesterday (June 14) in the journal …
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Guest Post by Mark Crispin Miller So just how free IS Twitter nowadays? Aside from this question as to Dr. Fauci’s status under international law, I’m told that “Twitter seems to be eliminating all comments unfavorable to Ukraine.” If you’ve found that to be true, please let me know. A friend just …
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Not His Words Did Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates suggest that “3 billion people need to die”? No, that’s not true: The claim on social media recycles unsupported speculations from 2019 based on a distorted quote taken out of context. The story reappeared in a post on Instagram …
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Bobby Kennedy Jr. is still talking. Up in the hills of Los Angeles, in a house studded with family memorabilia, the scion of the Kennedy clan and Democratic presidential candidate has been expounding for 90 minutes on everything from Latin American populism to the CIA, from cryptocurrency to the …
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2024 Election Why 2024 Is Shaping Up To Be The Most Online Election Ever By Kaleigh Rogers Jun. 14, 2023, at 6:00 AM ABC News photo illustration / Getty Images; Reuters; AP Photo When President Biden’s campaign began flogging “Dark Brandon” merch on its website, my spidey sense started tingling. …
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Space lasers. That’s the reason some people gave for the catastrophic burning of Lytton, B.C., in 2021 after a historic heat wave set a new temperature record in Canada, exacerbating a wildfire that essentially destroyed the town. And while the idea seems wild, it wasn’t even the first time the …
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There is a strange dramatic irony that comes with rewatching Russell Brand’s infamous Newsnight interview from October 2013. The dynamics—Brand’s brashness, Jeremy Paxman’s dismissiveness, the ideas being batted around—almost trigger a wince. Despite being roundly mocked for his views, and for …
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AI Images Does a video containing still images of then-President Donald Trump and Anthony Fauci capture them embracing each other? No, that’s not true: Those pictures are computer-generated. The claim originated from a tweet (archived here) on June 5, 2023. It said: Donald Trump became a household …
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One Dumb Conspiracy is a weekly column that debunks the mostly wild conspiracy theories swirling around the web and runs on Mondays in the Daily Dot’s web_crawlr newsletter. If you want to get this column a day before we publish it, subscribe to web_crawlr, where you’ll get the daily scoop of …
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SciCheck Digest Clinical trial data for Pfizer’s maternal vaccine to protect babies from RSV support the vaccine’s safety and efficacy, according to a vote by an FDA advisory committee. The FDA could soon approve the vaccine. But a popular social media post makes misleading claims about the trial …
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