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Anti-vax app gets the boot from Google but remains on Apple App Store
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Archived 5 years ago from Sydney Morning Herald
Anti-vax app gets the boot from Google but remains on Apple App Store

Loading Chris Cooper, executive director of the advocacy group Reset Australia, urged Apple to follow Google in pulling down Reignite’s app, saying while the smaller platforms remained fringe they could still harbour hate speech and misinformation. “It’s a strange scenario where you’ve got Google, …

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Ron Johnson says gargling mouthwash kills covid on Twitter, drawing medical skepticism
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Archived 5 years ago from The Washington Post
Ron Johnson says gargling mouthwash kills covid on Twitter, drawing medical skepticism

Though mouthwash can partially kill off parts of the coronavirus in a person’s mouth, most infections occur through the nose, health experts said. “Even if gargling kills some of the virus, it won’t be able to clean the nasal area, nor the viruses that’s already penetrated deeper into the body,” …

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Stallone Says ‘Storm’ in Instagram Post Was Not Tied to QAnon, That He Meant ‘Thunderstorm’
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Archived 5 years ago from Newsweek
Stallone Says ‘Storm’ in Instagram Post Was Not Tied to QAnon, That He Meant ‘Thunderstorm’

Sylvester Stallone has insisted that his recent social media posts, showing him wearing a hat featuring the letter “Q” and referring to “the Storm,” have nothing to do with the pro-former President Donald Trump QAnon conspiracy theory. Stallone is pictured alongside Trump at the White House on May …

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Trump double negative: Twitter sees proof positive of no electoral fraud
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Archived 5 years ago from The Guardian
Trump double negative: Twitter sees proof positive of no electoral fraud

The double negative, a common grammatical elephant trap, claimed a high-profile victim on Saturday night: Donald Trump. In a statement, the former president said: “Anybody that doesn’t think there wasn’t massive election fraud in the 2020 presidential election is either very stupid, or very …

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A trans TikToker was the target of a conspiracy theory. Transphobia fueled the hate, experts say.
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Archived 5 years ago from NBC News
A trans TikToker was the target of a conspiracy theory. Transphobia fueled the hate, experts say.

Sabrina Prater’s TikToks are like millions of others on the platform: They simply show her dancing in her home. But one recent video — featuring her dancing to the song “Any Man of Mine” by Shania Twain — caught the attention of many on TikTok, eventually putting Prater, who is transgender, at the …

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Dissolved Omicron nanotechnology company has nothing to do with Covid-19 variant
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Archived 5 years ago from Full Fact
Dissolved Omicron nanotechnology company has nothing to do with Covid-19 variant

2 December 2021 What was claimed A company called Omicron Nanotechnology Limited exists and has something to do with the pandemic. Our verdict There was a (now-dissolved) company registered on Companies House with this name. It has nothing to do with the Covid-19 variant of the same name, except …

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Meta takes down China-linked influence op about WHO and covid
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Archived 5 years ago from Quartz
Meta takes down China-linked influence op about WHO and covid

Since the Hong Kong protests two years ago, Twitter and Facebook have traced a number of influence operations to China-linked actors. But a recent Facebook takedown operation found one covid-19 influence effort engaged with accounts directly linked to employees of Chinese state-run firms and …

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All She Wanted Was to Dance. Then TikTok Spun a Conspiracy Theory That She’s a Serial Killer
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Archived 5 years ago from Rolling Stone
All She Wanted Was to Dance. Then TikTok Spun a Conspiracy Theory That She’s a Serial Killer

On Nov. 11, Sabrina Prater, a contractor from outside of Flint, Michigan, put up a video of herself in a basement dancing to a remix of Shania Twain’s “Any Man of Mine.” In most respects, it was similar to lots of other content posted on the platform: a low-fi, poorly lit video of someone dancing …

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Facebook takes down China-based network spreading false COVID-19 claims
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Archived 5 years ago from NPR
Facebook takes down China-based network spreading false COVID-19 claims

Meta has removed six networks of accounts for abusing its platforms, underscoring the ways bad actors around the world use social media as a tool to promote false information and harass opponents. Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP via Getty …

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Facebook, now Meta: Chinese users spread COVID lies
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Archived 5 years ago from Business Insider
Facebook, now Meta: Chinese users spread COVID lies

Meta revealed that a COVID disinformation campaign sprouted on Facebook this past summer. A fake Swiss biologist, Wilson Edwards, spread lies that the US was pushing the WHO to blame COVID-19 on China. Many of the accounts sharing the claims were fake, but some were real employees of Chinese state …

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