Annenberg study reveals belief in conspiracy theories is setback against COVID-19 fight

September 24, 2020 covid19

Archived 6 years ago from The Daily Pennsylvanian
Annenberg study reveals belief in conspiracy theories is setback against COVID-19 fight

The Annenberg Public Policy Center found that belief in conspiracy theories about the coronavirus pandemic is partly correlated with the refusal to wear a mask. Credit: Kylie Cooper New research from Penn’s Annenberg Public Policy Center reveals that belief in conspiracy theories about the …

YouTube expands fact-checking feature for video searches to Europe

Conspiracy

September 24, 2020 5g, antivax, big tech, covid19

Archived 6 years ago from CNBC
YouTube expands fact-checking feature for video searches to Europe

The logo of video-sharing website YouTube is displayed on a smartphone on November 19, 2018 in Berlin, Germany. Thomas Trutschel | Photothek via Getty Images YouTube will start showing users in the U.K. and Germany fact-checking panels on some video searches, expanding on its efforts to tackle …

Anti-mask protesters pose challenge for EU authorities

Conspiracy

September 23, 2020 5g, china, covid19, deep state, qanon

Archived 6 years ago from EUobserver
Anti-mask protesters pose challenge for EU authorities

The past four weeks have seen a sudden flare-up in anti-mask and coronavirus-denier protests in European cities. There is a risk these will grow as EU states re-impose hygiene and social-distancing measures due to a second wave of infections – posing a danger to public order and health. The …

September 23, 2020 covid19

Archived 6 years ago from The Washington Post
Feared covid-19 outbreaks in schools yet to arrive, early data shows

September 23, 2020 at 10:21 AM EDT Feared covid-19 outbreaks in schools yet to arrive, early data shows By Laura Meckler and Valerie Strauss Thousands of students and teachers have become sick with covid-19 since schools began opening last month, but so far, public health experts have found little …

Stone Roses’ Ian Brown claims COVID was “planned designed and executed to make us digital slaves”

Great Reset

September 23, 2020 antivax, cdc, covid19

Archived 6 years ago from Brooklyn Vegan
Stone Roses’ Ian Brown claims COVID was “planned designed and executed to make us digital slaves”

Former Stone Roses frontman Ian Brown released the anti-mask, anti-vax “Little Seed Big Tree” on Friday, which we’d hoped meant he would knock it off with the cryptic tweets blasting COVID-19 lockdown that were, perhaps, to promote it. No, it appears that Brown is really invested in this conspiracy …

QAnon

September 23, 2020 antivax, big tech, covid19, epstein, pizzagate

Archived 6 years ago from The Intercept
How QAnon Conspiracy Theories Spread in My Hometown

Earlier this summer, I noticed this alarming shift in my Facebook feed. Childhood friends and old high school acquaintances began plastering my timeline with posts referring to a satanic cabal of pedophile elites, including hysterical, unfounded claims about the proliferation of child sex …

QAnon

September 23, 2020 5g, antivax, big tech, bill gates, cdc, china, chloroquine, covid19, deep state, fauci, george soros, pizzagate, seed oils

Archived 6 years ago from Mother Jones
The Terrifying Story of How QAnon Infiltrated Moms’ Groups

For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter. When Kristen Alden moved to Thousand Oaks, California, two years ago, she joined the local moms’ Facebook group, Moms of Conejo Valley. She figured it’d be a good place to …

QAnon

September 23, 2020 covid19, deep state

Archived 6 years ago from The Washington Post
How QAnon is spreading during the pandemic — and more lessons on fake news

The material comes from the project’s newsletter, the Sift, which takes the most recent viral rumors, conspiracy theories, hoaxes and journalistic ethics issues and turns them into timely lessons with discussion prompts and links. The Sift, which is published weekly during the school year, has more …

September 22, 2020 antivax, big tech, bill gates, covid19

Archived 6 years ago from Newsroom
How misinformation endangers us

technology In association with Six months after New Zealand first went into lockdown and a spate of arson attacks on cell towers began, we now have a better idea than ever before of how misinformation works and how it threatens us, Marc Daalder reports The Covid-19 pandemic has sparked widespread …

Conspiracy

September 21, 2020 antivax, cdc, covid19

Archived 6 years ago from EurekAlert
Belief in conspiracy theories is a barrier to controlling spread of COVID-19

Belief in conspiracy theories about the coronavirus pandemic is not only persistent but also is associated with reluctance to accept a COVID-19 vaccine when one becomes available and to engage in behaviors such as mask-wearing that can prevent its spread, according to researchers at the Annenberg …

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