#Misinformation

Rattanista

reemarattan

This is a really interesting article about conspiracy theories from today's @Nature newsletter - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03130-6?utm_source=Nature+Briefing&utm_campaign=ba763e25a3-briefing-dy-20201110&utm_me

MargaretSimons

MargaretSimons

Of course the huge power of big digital platforms to limit and amplify speech is a worry. I have previously researched how the CCP both censors and uses WeChat, Weibo...and

Alpha6

Alpha6Phinsider

@JoeBiden You continually push misinformation on the China virus. Here's 4 whoppers:1. YOU claimed you called for lock-downs one week before Trump - THAT'S a LIEOn the contrary, YOU on

Zackary Berger

DrZackaryBerger

A 35yo immigrant from El Salvador calls a hotline in May 2020 w 5d cough, aches, fever, chills. Offered covid testing -but declines. Why? Our paper in @AMJPublicHealth answers. First

Anthony Milisci

anthonymilisci

There has been a lot of misinformation surrounding the race between @joekennedy and @edmarkey as of late. We've decided to take many of the common myths and bust them! #mapoli

Preston Mitchum

PrestonMitchum

I think... many people... don’t actually understand the Tuskegee Experiment. Someone shared this but want to link again: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/youre-wrong-about/id1380008439?i=1000490510511I’ve listened and you won’t r

Alistair Coleman

alistaircoleman

With many prominent anti-vaxxers and anti-vaccine groups kicked off social media, it seems misinformation about the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine trial is less (oh-ho!) viral than usual, but make no mistake that

Judd Legum

JuddLegum

1. Here is some information you won't read about in Politico Playbook today. On Jan 5, @benshapiro turned over his "Daily Shapiro Action" email to Ted Cruz. Cruz used the

Stephanie McGann Jantzen

stephjantzen

#Thread Jules is no longer on a ventilator. She died as an ICU nurse this morning from Covid-19. I do this brief thread for her and all of you on

Blair Minchin

Mr_Minchin

1/4 I’m coming across more ‘likes’ and ‘retweets’ on my feed of practitioners who advocate zero tolerance approaches to behaviour.If there is one thing NOT to do after the summer,

Dr. Alex Huffman

HuffmanLabDU

1/x On Friday I tweeted about a “huge” WHO update, but I didn’t feel it was pitched right, and I wanted to clarify & be more accuratehttps://twitter.com/HuffmanLabDU/status/1322199388937089024 2/x Releasing a

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LauraNMauro

if you don't think this won't ultimately lead to people aged 16 and under having access to abortion blocked on the grounds that they are "too young" to consent to

riley ✿

03minyards

hi !!! i’ve been seeing alot of misinformation regarding the ‘spectrum’ part of autism, so i thought i’d try to educate the audience on what it Actually means! this is

A Happy Dude

ThatHappyDudee

1/ Thread on @signalapp:28th Nov 2011: A deal is made.Security researcher @Moxie Marlinspike and Roboticist Stuart Anderson's brainchild, Whisper Systems, will be sold off to Twitter for a nice sum

Dr. Alex Huffman

HuffmanLabDU

1/ A thread w/ observations from the live Q&A with #WHO this morning:They are working really hard to control the narrative of #COVID19 spread and play a critical role, but

Whitney Phillips

wphillips49

Sums up the warning that networks don't care WHY we share, just THAT we share: "a small minority provoking a backlash that ends up amplifying their messaging, raising their profiles

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