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April 3, 2020 antivax, covid19, rfk jr, russia

Archived 5 years ago from PolitiFact
Fact-checking a conspiracy theory about 5G and the coronavirus

PolitiFact | Fact-checking a conspiracy theory about 5G and the coronavirus Says a “5G LAW PASSED while everyone was distracted” with the coronavirus pandemic and lists 20 symptoms associated with 5G exposure. A medical worker uses her phone while wearing a surgical mask outside Mt. Sinai West on …

April 3, 2020 china, covid19

Archived 4 years ago from Associated Press
Video does not show 5G pole being torn down in China

CLAIM: Video shows people in China taking down 5G poles to “cure coronavirus.” AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The video was filmed on August 24 during protests in Hong Kong. Protesters are taking down a so-called smart lamppost, which people allege contain cameras and sensors. THE FACTS: A video …

April 2, 2020 covid19

Archived 2 years ago from The Guardian
Broadband engineers threatened due to 5G coronavirus conspiracies

Telecoms engineers are facing verbal and physical threats during the lockdown, as baseless conspiracy theories linking coronavirus to the roll-out of 5G technology spread by celebrities such as Amanda Holden prompt members of the public to abuse those maintaining vital mobile phone and broadband …

March 21, 2020 china, covid19

Archived 5 years ago from USA TODAY
Coronavirus: Here’s why science says 5G didn’t cause COVID-19

FOSTER CITY, Calif. — The coronavirus pandemic and its ongoing consequences have given us all plenty to think about and worry about. But there’s one thing you can permanently take off your concern list: 5G has no causal connection to COVID-19, contrary to several recent misguided online rumors. In …

Just exactly how anti-vax are the Newsoms?

Vaccines

March 17, 2020 covid19

Archived 6 years ago from Chico Enterprise-Record
Just exactly how anti-vax are the Newsoms?

While the world waits for someone, somewhere, to develop a vaccine against the coronavirus, it would be nice if residents in America’s most populous state could be sure their governor really is on board with vaccinations. There is some reason to doubt he is. It’s true that Gov. Gavin Newsom signed …

March 16, 2020 bill gates, cdc, china, covid19, iran

Archived 6 years ago from CNET
5G has no link to COVID-19 but false conspiracy theories persist

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. As the coronavirus swept across the globe, so did rumors about what caused it and how it’s spread. One that’s persisted online is that 5G networks caused the disease. A new one involves …

The global anti-vax movement: a visual history

Vaccines

February 19, 2020 cdc, cia, covid19

Archived 6 years ago from Coda Story
The global anti-vax movement: a visual history

The resurgence of measles in the United States and the UK, a polio outbreak in the Philippines, HPV-vaccine resistance in Japan — these headlines from the past year have roots in global anti-vaccine campaigns that stretch back over 200 years. Concerned parents, religious groups, liberals and …

Did ‘The Simpsons’ Predict the Coronavirus Outbreak?

Vaccines

February 3, 2020 covid19

Archived 4 years ago from Snopes Fact Checks
Did ‘The Simpsons’ Predict the Coronavirus Outbreak?

Advertisment: Claim: “The Simpsons” TV show predicted the 2020 new coronavirus outbreak in a 1993 episode. In January 2020, a rumor started circulating on social media that the long-running sitcom “The Simpsons” had “predicted” the outbreak of the new coronavirus: The first three panels of this …

Vaccines

February 3, 2020 china, covid19, rfk jr

Archived 6 years ago from Forbes
How Anti-Vax Activists Use Conspiracy Theories To Spread Fear Of Vaccines

Anti-vaxers rally in front of Presidential Office in Kyiv, Ukraine, August 22, 2019. Parents who … [+] don’t support vaccination of their children, oppose a bill that Ukraine passed, which banned the admission of unvaccinated children to attend public schools. (Photo by Sergii Kharchenko/NurPhoto …

Bernice L. Hausman, ‘Anti/Vax: Reframing the Vaccination Controversy’

Vaccines

January 31, 2020 china, covid19

Archived 6 years ago from Inside Higher Ed
Bernice L. Hausman, ‘Anti/Vax: Reframing the Vaccination Controversy’

“Man worried about coronavirus still hasn’t gotten flu shot,” reads a headline this week at The Beaverton — one of The Onion‘s numerous imitators, in this case based in Canada. Seldom will a mock news item of this kind develop a joke very far beyond what is given in the title. The reader watches, …

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