#MISINFORMATION

We just released this year's #TrustBarometer. Guess what? You need a global pandemic, an economic crisis and widespread misinformation to bring people's trust to its lowest. Some key considerations.https://twitter.com/EdelmanPR/stat
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1. Facebook has permitted a large network of Facebook pages and groups — with names like Trump's Deplorable Army, To The Death Media, and One Angry Conservative — to spread
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How should Apple or Google Play decide when to cut off an encrypted messaging app when faced with evidence of abuse? Today Google Play banned the open source Matrix client
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Another day, another report of ways Joel Kaplan uses his position at Facebook to advance his anti-immigrant, anti-woman right wing agenda.https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook-zuckerberg-what-if-trump-disputes-electio
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Look, if you're going to post a video that is filled with misinformation, lies, and conspiracy theories about a "cure" for Covid, I'm going to mark it as fake news
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(thread) I’m seeing too much misinformation about the vaccines on her daily. It has become so bad that I can’t stay silent on the topic. Working in the industry I
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As a scholar of social movements, I think it's important to remember that the riots in our capitol are not the byproduct of racist ideology, irrationality, or entitlement alone. Individuals
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The Rand Corporation has written about a Russian propaganda technique called the "firehose of falsehoods," which requires multiple channels to fool people & make lies stick. Trump & his "Stop
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Looking at the top 15 Instagram posts about vaccines in the past 24 hours, there are 4 vaccine-hesitant posts, two from DJ Akademiks, and 3 of them focus on quotes
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I can't join in the media howls about "covidiots".Covid denial is, in my view, a symptom of a far wider systemic problem -- that problem is capitalism, especially this government.The
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'Govt's sold us the #vaccine based upon two endpoints: They promised it would (1) provide 'herd immunity' and end the pandemic (2) prevent #COVID deaths. But in their clinical trials
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For the conservatives who are mad about this: yes, it is possible for a story to be factually accurate *and* for it to be part of a misinformation campaign aimed
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1/ "More than 1 in 3 Americans believe a ‘deep state’ is working to undermine Trump: NPR/Ipsos poll finds widespread concerns about the spread of false information, despite some believing
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This is gonna be a big tweet. Nintendo are being "cancelled" for a multitude of reasons. Here I will cover them all, except for the #FreeMelee or #SaveSmash movement, as
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The introduction of mass testing in Liverpool has brought out the COVID deniers and Conspiracy theorists, and I want to talk about what people can do to actually help stop
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President Trump just tweeted again about claims of "secretly dumped ballots" for Biden in Michigan.This is false. These claims are based on screenshots of a mistaken unofficial tally on one
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