#MISINFORMATION

Alabama Public Health

ALPublicHealth

THREAD: Rumors & misinformation can easily circulate within communities during a crisis. Pictured is an example of a rumor or misinformation we have seen recently. There are multiple posts on

Roger Lu Phillips

rogerluphillips

Just finished Speech Police by @davidakaye. Many great insights to help understand content moderation of social media in the face of misinformation. A central theme is to involve users more

Demagogue_Bingo 🔶🌍🇪🇺🥛⚖️⚔️🦉🐝💀🎯☸️

BingoDemagogue

Scotland, you are under attack. From #misinformation and rewriting of History - and not just on the school curriculum.This is an important thread, because it's one example but it's the

Alexandra Evans

AlexandraTEvans

A Misinformation Thread for Very Online People (1/13) As the nation marks a week since the Capitol Hill riots, now is a good time to audit our information consumption habits.

monique, who is openly Black

thejournalista

I see people being fooled by this, so media literacy lesson time.https://twitter.com/Suite_Tea/status/1334815515752194049 This is a parody video that is using portions of a real news story/report to advertise a product.

Peter Khalil MP

PeterKhalilMP

1/This week, @CraigKelly got a slap on the wrist by the PM for his dangerous promotion of quack COVID treatments. But Morrison & Co. have allowed him to spout misinformation

Alex

classicmacro

Biden is not President-elect until states cast their votes (Dec/14) and congress counts the votes (Jan/6) OR Trump concedes. Trump's odds of turning the situation around via the courts are

Stephan Lewandowsky

STWorg

How to talk to someone about misinformation and conspiracy theories? Lots of resources now available: First there is the new in-depth Debunking Handbook https://sks.to/db2020 ... 1/n Then there is the

Good Practice Audit Wales

AuditWales_GPX

Yesterday we, @CLARI_Network and @crussell001 held a transatlantic conversation between Wales and Nova Scotia .This came from realising that a pandemic means that the world is even smaller nowadays –

The New York Times

nytimes

“A colossal failure at every level of government”Nearly one year after the U.S. found its first known coronavirus case, the country is hurtling toward 400,000 total deaths, and cases, hospitalizations

Sarah Bressan

bressansar

How should #thinktanks think about misinformation? Here are a few points from our discussion:https://twitter.com/WonkComms/status/1362400578173890561 Yes, think tank(er)s are targets of misinformation, e.g. via twitter and on blogs. At toda

Dasha Burns

DashaBurns

THREAD: I just spent 3 days with frontline workers at hospitals in a part of Appalachia where hospitalizations have more than doubled in the last month. But hospital staff say

Mike Masnick

mmasnick

If you were one of the millions of people who watched @60Minutes last night ostensibly about Section 230, you were misinformed massively by @ScottPelley. @cbsnews should be ashamed that it

Rebekah Jones

GeoRebekah

Unless someone sends police to raid my house, I don't enjoy calling out individuals.But the damage done by @ProfEmilyOster cannot be overstated. Her irresponsible methodology and lack of understanding of

Abigail Shrier

AbigailShrier

It's become commonplace to poke fun at the silly hypocrisy of media and Big Tech 'fact checkers.' The situation is actually far more dire than people realize.Here's my own experience.

Arefké (He/Him) 🏳️‍🌈 #BlackLivesMatter

ThePoetArefke

There's a lot of mental fuckery going on. When Obama and Biden were in the White House, I loved Joe Biden. I thought their bromance was adorable. Then, when Joe

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