#MISINFORMATION

Hannah Bell 🇨🇦💚

hannahbethbell

Thread Closure of Deacon House emergency shelter #peipoli #peihousingcrisis This weekend I learned that Deacon House was closed on December 10. Deacon House was an emergency drop-in shelter located in

Patrick Collison

patrickc

Someone I know has had some quite useful COVID-related posts removed from Medium, LinkedIn, and Nextdoor—they've been deemed "COVID misinformation". (It's not what the WHO endorses!) I think his posts

J. Justin Boggs

jjboggs

This week is National News Literacy week, and I want to share with you a great example of how we together can fight misinformation. This picture has been shared thousands

Edward Nirenberg

ENirenberg

So, every so often I get people who come to my twitter after I debunked something and tell me all about how the effort was noble but the denialists won't

Tiemo Wölken🇪🇺

woelken

A study published today by @Avaaz shows @Facebook has been failing in its quest to contain misinformation about the Coronavirus pandemic: Between 2019 and 2020, global health misinformation generated around

Joan Donovan, PhD 🦫

BostonJoan

An exclusive new case study from @ShorensteinCtr’s @EmilyDreyfuss for the @nytimes charts just how difficult it has been to track platform companies’ content moderation these last 2 weeks.Why did Trump

Niamh Shields

eatlikeagirl

It blows my mind that a lot of the misinformation on ADHD come from an anti-psychiatry and especially anti-ADHD Scientology campaign. That it isn't real, that it is over-diagnosed (SPOILER:

Jeff Giesea🌴

jeffgiesea

As a matter of record, I want to express my disagreement with framing "stop the steal" narratives as ipso facto disinformation. This is gaslighting and wrong.https://twitter.com/2020Partnership/status/1324074460635308032 1 These n

Bertram Lee Jr.

BMLeeJR

Today @EnergyCommerce is holding an incredibly important hearing on #disinformation. We @publicknowledge, specifically @lisahmacpherson, have been tracking this issue since the beginning of COVID https://misinfotrackingreport.com/ We

Jena Griswold

JenaGriswold

I just found out the @USPS is sending this postcard to every household and PO Box in the nation. For states like Colorado where we send ballots to all voters,

Davey Alba

daveyalba

NEW: False Claims that Biden ‘Lost’ Pennsylvania Surge, and Tech Companies Struggle to Keep Uphttps://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/2020-election-misinformation-distortions#false-claims-that-biden-lost-pennsylvania-surge-and-tech-companies-

Jo Maugham

JolyonMaugham

The UK 'debate' around the treatment of transgender children - dominated by hobbyists and the politically motivated - increasingly resembles anti-vaxism.https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/political-minds/202007/jk-rowling-and-the-

Dr. Sajjad Fazel

SajjadFazel

THREAD: "Do your own research" - this is one of the most misused statements today. #scicomm #scienceupfirst #covid19 #misinformation Why do I say that? Because countless anti-vaxxers, flat-earth believers, and

Daniel Funke

dpfunke

My last dispatch before Election Day: Here's everything you need to know about the misinformation we might see tomorrowhttps://bit.ly/3kSie4O 1. This election will be weird.An influx of mail-in and early

Kevin Gosztola

kgosztola

Nobody really believes Discord shut down WallStreetBets cause of hate speech or misinformation. That could've been done well before the panic over Gamestop. No, Discord is engaging in censorship to

Ryan J. Reilly

ryanjreilly

A reminder that a lot of the complaints from Detroit were from a bunch of conservatives (mostly white people from the suburbs) who got voter fraud brain worms on Facebook,

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