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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
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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
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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 –
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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,
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