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Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine are used to prevent and treat malaria and have been studied for an ability to prevent and treat COVID‑19. (Wikipedia)

Why is the ‘anti-vaxxer’ movement growing during a pandemic? | Free to read
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Archived 6 years ago from Financial Times
Why is the ‘anti-vaxxer’ movement growing during a pandemic? | Free to read

Greer McVay insists she is “not an anti-vaxxer — not at all”. She is up to date with her own immunisations and had her son vaccinated when he was a child. But she fears the development of a vaccine for coronavirus is being dangerously rushed, in part to improve Donald Trump’s prospects ahead of the …

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Bill Gates On Covid Vaccine Timing, Hydroxychloroquine, and That 5G Conspiracy Theory
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Archived 5 years ago from Bloomberg
Bill Gates On Covid Vaccine Timing, Hydroxychloroquine, and That 5G Conspiracy Theory

August 13, 2020, 10:00 AM The Microsoft co-founder has steered $350 million toward coronavirus projects and says we’ll turn a corner next year. August 13, 2020, 10:00 AM By Dina Bass and Candy Cheng Bill Gates, the Microsoft Corp. co-founder and billionaire philanthropist, has become, for better …

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Facing the facts about fictions: Challenging conspiracy theories from Area 51 to 9/11
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Archived 6 years ago from Winnipeg Free Press
Facing the facts about fictions: Challenging conspiracy theories from Area 51 to 9/11

Opinion U.S. President Donald Trump isn’t the only one who frequently favours fiction over facts. In Canada, experts warn baseless COVID-19 conspiracy theories — for example, that the virus is being spread to cover up the effects of 5G wireless technology — are creating “a public health crisis.” …

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What makes one person more likely than another to believe #fakenews and conspiracy theories about COVID-19?
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Archived 6 years ago from MarketWatch
What makes one person more likely than another to believe #fakenews and conspiracy theories about COVID-19?

Think before you click. People who get their news from social-media platforms like Facebook FB, +1.80%  and Twitter TWTR, +4.94%  are more likely to have misperceptions about COVID-19, according to new study led by researchers at McGill University in Montreal. “Those that consume more traditional …

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Docs Fight Back Against COVID Conspiracy Theories
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Archived 6 years ago from Medscape
Docs Fight Back Against COVID Conspiracy Theories

Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Last week, a self-branded collection of “America’s Frontline Doctors” held a “White Coat Summit” in front of the US Supreme Court building. In their telling, they came to address a “massive disinformation …

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COVID-19 Update: Conspiracy Theories, Cutaneous Clues
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Archived 6 years ago from Medscape
COVID-19 Update: Conspiracy Theories, Cutaneous Clues

Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Here are the coronavirus stories Medscape’s editors around the globe think you need to know about today:  Docs Fight Back Against Conspiracy Theories Last week, a self-branded collection of …

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Are Conspiracy Theories Good For Facebook? : Planet Money
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Archived 6 years ago from NPR
Are Conspiracy Theories Good For Facebook? : Planet Money

Editor’s note: This is an excerpt of Planet Money‘s newsletter. You can sign up here. Graeme Jennings/Getty Images Graeme Jennings/Getty Images Last week, the titans of tech Zoomed into a congressional hearing for a flogging through their computer screens. Members of the House Subcommittee on …

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How the Trump campaign came to court QAnon, the online conspiracy movement identified by the FBI as a violent threat
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Archived 6 years ago from The Washington Post
How the Trump campaign came to court QAnon, the online conspiracy movement identified by the FBI as a violent threat

By Isaac Stanley-Becker, Evelyn Hockstein for The Washington Post QAnon supporters wait for a military flyover at the World War II Memorial during Fourth of July celebrations in Washington. This story was featured in Drop Me The Link, our one-story election newsletter. Sign up to get it in your …

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Trump is back to going big on coronavirus conspiracy theories
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Archived 6 years ago from The Washington Post
Trump is back to going big on coronavirus conspiracy theories

But he’s also back to promoting blatant falsehoods and conspiracy theories about the virus. In his briefing Tuesday, he … Incorrectly said the country’s coronavirus outbreak was in just a few states and nowhere else. “We’re seeing improvements across the major metro areas and most hot spots. You …

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