Tag: misinformation
How Misinformation Threatened a Montana National Heritage Area
GREAT FALLS, Mont. — In the summer of 2020, as pandemic shutdowns closed businesses and racial justice protests erupted on American streets, Rae Gr [...]
Facebook Employees Warned About Election Misinformation, to Little Effect
WHAT HAPPENED
1. From Wednesday through Saturday there was a lot of content circulating which implied fraud in the election, at around 10% of [...]
Covering 9/11 showed journalist how to handle Covid pandemic, misinformation
Like many Americans, I remember every detail of Sept. 11, 2001, like it was yesterday.I was a congressional reporter in Washington, D.C., for Dow J [...]
WHO says Covid misinformation is a significant component driving pandemic world wide
RT: Maria Van Kerkhove, Head a.i. Rising Ailments and Zoonosis on the World Well being Group (WHO), speaks throughout a information convention on t [...]
Physician agrees with Biden that Fb is ‘killing folks’ with Covid misinformation
Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, founding director of the Heart for Rising Infectious Illnesses at Boston College, informed CNBC, that, medically, she agrees wi [...]
Surgeon normal: Misinformation on Fb, Twitter, and YouTube is a public well being menace
United States Surgeon Normal Dr. Vivek Murthy says that misinformation — a lot of it on tech platforms — is a public well being menace that has [...]
Amy Klobuchar targets vaccine misinformation influencers on Fb, Instagram, and Twitter
Because the Covid-19 vaccine rollout continues throughout the US, some la [...]
Senator Ron Johnson has unfold misinformation on the virus, the election, the Capitol riot, even Greenland’s greenness.
Senator Ron Johnson, a Republican from Wisconsin, incited widespread outrage when he stated just lately that he would have been extra afraid of the [...]
Our Period’s Defining Battle: Details vs. Misinformation
Provided that, you would possibly anticipate Kathleen Corridor Jamieson to despair. She’s the co-founder of FactCheck.org and an educational on th [...]
OKCoin delists two Bitcoin forks over ‘malicious misinformation’ marketing campaign
Whereas the unique Bitcoin rallies previous a $1 trillion greenback marketcap, two forks of the world’s hottest cryptocurrency have as an alternati [...]
Stolen election misinformation is straightforward to seek out on YouTube
Within the hours and days after polls closed in america, deceptive and o [...]
Misinformation about voter fraud in Pennsylvania goes viral on-line
Simply hours after the polls opened, deceptive claims about voting in Pennsylvania, a key battleground state within the presidential election, h [...]
‘Tsunamis of Misinformation’ Overwhelm Native Election Officers
“They’re undoubtedly overwhelmed,” mentioned Isabella Garcia-Camargo, an organizer of the Election Integrity Partnership, a brand new coalition of [...]
Rallies Are the Core of Trump’s Marketing campaign, and a Font of Lies and Misinformation
A current rally in Wisconsin was typical. In 90 minutes, President Trump made 131 false or inaccurate statements.
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Trump’s pandemic rallies unfold coronavirus an infection and misinformation
With the pandemic getting worse, not higher, President Donald Trump tried to show actuality on its head throughout a collection of rallies on Sa [...]