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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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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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Meet Christiane Northrup, doctor of disinformation –
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Archived 6 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 6 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 6 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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New AI tool tracks evolution of COVID-19 conspiracy theories on social media
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Archived 6 years ago from EurekAlert
New AI tool tracks evolution of COVID-19 conspiracy theories on social media

IMAGE: This image shows the change in word importance over time for tweets related to the Bill and Melinda Gates conspiracy theory. In the top panel, the x-axis represents time while… view more  Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory LOS ALAMOS, N.M., April 19, 2021–A new machine-learning program …

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New AI tool tracks evolution of COVID-19 conspiracy theories on social media
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Archived 6 years ago from Mirage News
New AI tool tracks evolution of COVID-19 conspiracy theories on social media

LOS ALAMOS, N.M., April 19, 2021—A new machine-learning program accurately identifies COVID-19-related conspiracy theories on social media and models how they evolved over time—a tool that could someday help public health officials combat misinformation online. “A lot of machine-learning studies …

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From Cooking Videos to QAnon, N.H.-Based Video Platform Attracts Users Banned Elsewhere
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Archived 6 years ago from New Hampshire Public Radio
From Cooking Videos to QAnon, N.H.-Based Video Platform Attracts Users Banned Elsewhere

Until she was kicked off Twitter, Savanah Hernandez had amassed more than 120,000 followers.  “I guess you could say I’m more conservative-leaning in my rhetoric, and I mostly focus on politics and daily news,” said Hernandez, a commentator and journalist based in Texas. Listen to the broadcast …

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