#Misinformation

Kalina Chung, Über lesbian

kalina_chung

There's a lot of dimensions to the "queer is a slur" stance that is ignorant of or propagating a lot of bad faith misinformation about what the term and community

Shannon Phillips

SPhillipsAB

Across AB, retail&private security workers in particular have to deal with abuse, threats & worse from antimask extremists.Workers risk infection when interacting with antimask yahoos, not to mention the physical

Michael Shellenberger

ShellenbergerMD

2M acres of California have burned so far this yearBut *4.4 - 12M* acres (!) burned each year in *pre-industrial* timesIt is gross misinformation to blame climate change for our

Michael Overton

overtonmichael7

@dataremixed recently posted a good thread on the need for data literacy and how it is needed to fight emerging societal problems. This is something a few colleagues @slizlarson @profstevek

Dr. Haryax Pathak

HaryaxPathak

#COVID19vaccines - #IndiaFightsCorona News/Updates - IndiaDifferent Vaccines, Different MechanismsTime-frame and Roll-outWhat To Expect?Got Vaccinated. What now?Adverse Reactions???Countering MisinformationA thread.1/n News/Updates - #India

Jeff Horwitz

JeffHorwitz

New: FB researchers warned execs late last summer that 70% of the platform’s most active civic Groups were toxic. Facebook quietly began reining Groups in – then scrambled as the

Gabriel Malor

gabrielmalor

Again, I'm still seeing this misreported and the usual suspects passing around misinformation about this case. (1) No GOP observers were prevented from watching ballot counting.https://twitter.com/gabrielmalor/status/1324378226446225409

Dr Ronan Glynn

ronan_glynn

2020 has been an incredibly difficult year for everyone. But this has also been a year of very significant medical and scientific achievement.And now, at least two #COVID19 vaccines are

Alex Gladstein

gladstein

1/ This thread, unfortunately going viral, is filled with privileged ignorance.The author, @smdiehl, is a software engineer in London.He's never had to deal with dictatorship, a collapsing currency, sanctions, financial

Chardine Taylor Stone

ChardineTaylor

Now the pick a mix 'anti-racists' are gone can finally have a discussion about this. Most of the rhetoric that drives anti-semitism in parts of the Black community is misplaced

Varun Adibhatla

vr00n

The whole QAnon train demonstrates how mechanisms of faith in an omnipresent and intelligent design are being transplanted on matters of state.These are all predominantly WASPs who've lost an entire

Anthony Di Paolo

DiPaolo_016

Short thread: Looking at the replies and quote tweets, everyone is accusing Reuters of being maliciously misleading with this story.Meanwhile, the actual headline and lede of the story both include

HS2 Ltd

HS2ltd

The Green Party’s opposition to HS2 is opposition to low carbon rail and new public transport. The full HS2 network will remove 4.8m car journeys and 1.2m domestic flights by

Katrin Rabiei, MD PhD

DrKatrin_Rabiei

#Covid19Sweden Can we compile a list of narratives that are deemed misinformation in e.g. US & mainstream information to us in Sweden or NL?Spread & comment w screen shots so

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chaeinkiss

thread clearing up the misinformation spread about hwasa past + what she's actually done disclaimer: hwasa has done some problematic stuff in the past but most of the things ive

Will Oremus

WillOremus

There is a strand of thought that ties the problems of online speech and digital media to the market dominance of, e.g., Facebook, and recasts them as antitrust issues. While

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