#Misinformation

Nikki Wentling

nikkiwentling

.@DenisMcDonough, Joe Biden's pick for @DeptVetAffairs secretary, will testify soon at his confirmation hearing before the Senate VA committee. This will be the first time @SenatorTester leads the committee as

Scott Hamilton

DoqxaScott

Tragedy of the epistemic commons: A pseudo-problem? ( of 28)Ben Williams is concerned about the impact of ignorance on democracy. He describes a paradox between maintaining convenient false ideas versus

Mikey Kay

MikeyKayNYC

Abbott is pushing a lie to protect incompetence. There is no Federal oversight of the Texas Grid, ergo fewer regulations (sound familiar) - so point one: state legislature needs reform.

Nsikan Akpan, PhD

MoNscience

.@nymag and @nicholsonbaker8: This article is filled with wild speculation about SARS-CoV-2's origins and signifies a lack of understanding around basic genetics and viral evolution.https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/coronavirus-la

Jess Miers

jess_miers

I've been thinking a lot lately about the parallels between law school and content moderation. Specifically, the way I think about the law--the rules that govern both our offline and

Dr. Safa Mote

SafaMote

Thread on "Masks, Einstein, Interdisciplinary Science, and defeating #COVID."In 1905, which @AlbertEinstein called his "miracle year", he published four important papers. One of them was on "Brownian Motion":ht

vona⁷

7mapofsoul

now now...y'all are spreading A LOT of misinformation about Hoseok. all those narratives u hear about him originally being a vocalist are FALSE. Do not believe everything u see without

Safe & Effective Media

safe_effective

On Dec 2-3, 2019, the @WHO held an important meeting called the Global Vaccine Safety Summit. If you thought that robust vaccine safety surveillance has been ongoing for at least

Stop LAPD Spying

stoplapdspying

BREAKING: @lapdcommission just voted 4-0 to approve a face recognition policy. Nearly 70 organizations had opposed this policy, calling for an absolute ban on LAPD face recognition. The Commission also

Japan By River Cruise

jbrcpod

What a @jbrcpod interview with @yurikageyama would have looked like and why it won't happen. Gif of a river to calm you before a pretty long THREAD: We have long

✨bpdream✨

sparklepsych

I often see misinformation and stigma around bpd. So here’s a thread on what it’s really like to live with bpd - with some MYTH busters. (bpd is a ‘spectrum’

NOOR

NTagouri

A THREAD on: media coverage on Muslims, France and the questions we aren’t asking enough.Today’s episode of NYT’s The Daily about Islam/France/ Laïcite was incredibly unsettling. 1/ This is a

zedster

z3dster

This is all part of the long history of the right wing media sphere feeding lies about who to blame for economic woes, obviously you can look at the Great

Gordon Maloney #BLM

gordonmaloney

1 like 1 reason we need rent controls high rents trap tenants in the private rented sector high rents are a key cause of homelessness high rents cost the public

Matt Marinett

matthewmarinett

So the Canadian government will soon be introducing legislation aimed at regulating platforms with respect to harmful speech, spearheaded by Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault. I'm concerned b/c we haven't seen

It's Going Down

IGD_News

As protests + calls from Trump + the far-Right to criminalize antifascism continue, today Facebook banned a variety of anarchist, antifascist + anti-capitalist pages, including news platforms like ours +

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