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Raising awareness of misinformation among children in Poland | World Health Organization
by World Health Organization
5 days ago
The World Health Organization (WHO) is collaborating with Pravda Association, a non-profit fact-checking organization in Poland, to raise awareness about…
How Australia’s fickleness on COVID vaccines is perpetuating global vaccine inequity | The Conversation
by Sarah Joseph and Gregory Dore
5 days ago
Despite assurances from Prime Minister Scott Morrison that Australia was at “the front of the queue” for COVID-19 vaccines, Australia’s…
Facebook News Consumers Are More Anti-Vaccine Than Fox Viewers | Gizmodo
by Whitney Kimball
5 days ago
Joe Biden might want to consider re-backpedaling after his accusation that social media companies [Facebook] are “killing people” by spreading…
Vaccine mandates got a huge US push. What’s next for misinformation? | First Draft
by First Draft
5 days ago
Yesterday, the US Department of Veterans Affairs became the first federal agency to announce that its frontline medical workers will be required…
I’m a Parkland Shooting Survivor. QAnon Convinced My Dad It Was All a Hoax. | Vice
by David Gilbert
5 days ago
Bill’s final semester at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, was already difficult enough. He was part of…
The connectivity trade-off from social media misinformation | The Interpreter
by Andressa Oliveira
6 days ago
Rumours and falsehoods on social media spread faster than the truth. A recent study conducted in the United States found…
Research note: Examining potential bias in large-scale censored data | HKS Misinformation Review
by Jennifer Allen and Duncan J. Watts
6 days ago
We examine potential bias in Facebook’s 10-trillion cell URLs dataset, consisting of URLs shared on its platform and their engagement…
Fact checks of 10 prominent types of misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines | Poynter
by Bill McCarthy
6 days ago
Since the coronavirus pandemic erupted last year, PolitiFact has fact-checked hundreds of misleading statements about the development, deployment, content, safety and effectiveness…
Opinion: Covid Misinformation Comes From the Top, Too | The New York Times
by Bret Stephens
6 days ago
This spring, the Center for Countering Digital Hate published “The Disinformation Dozen” — a report on the 12 influencers it…