Trump’s promise of ‘Warp Speed’ coronavirus vaccine development fuels anti-vax movement online

May 21, 2020 antivax, big tech, bill gates, cdc, chloroquine, fauci, trump

Archived 6 years ago from Anchorage Daily News
Trump’s promise of ‘Warp Speed’ coronavirus vaccine development fuels anti-vax movement online

The question was posed bluntly to the nearly 100,000 members of a Facebook group devoted to ending Pennsylvania’s stay-at-home orders, with a user writing, “if there was a vaccine for coronavirus would you be likely to take it.” “Absolutely not.” The resoundingly negative answers streamed forth, …

The many coronavirus conspiracy theories

COVID-19

May 15, 2020 antivax, bill gates, china, deep state, fauci, george soros

Archived 6 years ago from Columbia Journalism Review
The many coronavirus conspiracy theories

On February 2, more than a month before the World Health Organization deemed the spread of COVID-19 a pandemic, it declared that the virus had led to a “massive infodemic.” WHO observed “an overabundance of information—some accurate and some not—that makes it hard for people to find trustworthy …

Conspiracy

May 15, 2020 5g, antivax, bill gates, chloroquine, fauci, russia

Archived 6 years ago from Forbes
The Original Plandemic: Unmasking The Eerily Familiar Conspiracy Theories Behind The Russian Flu Of 1889

Covid-19 truthers believe that 5G technology is dialing up the disease. More than a century ago, telegraph poles and other mysterious causes were blamed for influenza. And each gave rise to dubious cures. As the Covid-19 pandemic swept the globe in early 2020, a conspiracy theory about the disease …

COVID-19

May 14, 2020 5g, antivax, bill gates, cdc, fauci, rfk jr

Archived 9 months ago from Psychology Today
Anti-Vaccine and COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories: A Perfect Storm

Source: CDC/Public Domain Back in February, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned about an anticipated “infodemic” of COVID-19 misinformation. Unsurprisingly, the “infodemic” has become a reality just three months later, with mundane misinformation and more outlandish conspiracy theories about …

COVID-19

May 14, 2020 antivax, bill gates, cdc, china, plandemic video, rfk jr

Archived 1 year ago from Snopes Fact Checks
Do Flu Vaccines Increase Your Risk of Testing Positive for COVID-19?

Claim: People vaccinated for seasonal influenza face higher chances of catching SARS-COV-2, which causes COVID-19, or testing positive for the virus when they do not actually have it. Snopes is still fighting an “infodemic” of rumors and misinformation surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, and you can …

Plandemic Conspiracy Video Finds Fans in Instagram Influencers

COVID-19

May 14, 2020 alex jones, antivax, bill gates, chemtrails, covid19, fauci, illuminati, rfk jr

Archived 6 years ago from LA Magazine
Plandemic Conspiracy Video Finds Fans in Instagram Influencers

The uneasy overlap between the “wellness” movement often associated with affluent, presumptively-left-of-center (though maybe not really that far left in the first place) white women, and more overt conspiracy-peddlers of the far right is nothing new. Three years ago, Goop was spotted selling …

May 14, 2020 antivax, cdc, chloroquine, ivermectin

Archived 2 years ago from ABC Local
Australia Parliament Debunks 5G COVID-19 Conspiracy Theory – Voice of America

CoronaCheck is RMIT ABC Fact Check’s weekly email newsletter dedicated to fighting the misinformation infodemic surrounding the coronavirus outbreak.You can read the latest edition below, and subscribe to have the next newsletter delivered straight to your inbox.CoronaCheck #100This week, we …

COVID-19

May 13, 2020 antivax, bill gates, china, epstein

Archived 2 years ago from ABC Local
Australia Parliament Debunks 5G COVID-19 Conspiracy Theory – Voice of America

CheckMate is a weekly newsletter from RMIT FactLab which recaps the latest in the world of fact checking and misinformation, drawing on the work of FactLab and its sister organisation, RMIT ABC Fact Check.You can read the latest edition below, and subscribe to have the next newsletter delivered …

May 13, 2020 antivax, china, covid19, flat earth, plandemic video

Archived 6 years ago from The Atlantic
The Great 5G Conspiracy

Link Copied Photographs by Sarah IllenbergerIn the 1970s, the bogeyman was power lines. Low-frequency electromagnetic fields were emanating from them all the time, and a shocking 1979 study suggested that children who developed cancer lived near power lines “unduly often.” Around the same time, …

May 13, 2020 antivax, china, flat earth, plandemic video

Archived 6 years ago from The Atlantic
Something in the Air

Link Copied Photographs by Sarah Illenberger I n the 1970s, the bogeyman was power lines. Low-frequency electromagnetic fields were emanating from them all the time, and a shocking 1979 study suggested that children who developed cancer lived near power lines “unduly often.” Around the same time, …

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