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Prisons need better vaccine education for inmates, advocates say | PBS NewsHour
by Dave Collins
April 9, 2021
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Shortly before COVID-19 vaccinations began in January at the federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut, officials held…
How Black community leaders put Mississippi on the path to vaccine equity | Mississippi Today
by Will Stribling
April 9, 2021
As Mississippi’s rollout of COVID-19 vaccines began to ramp up in early 2021, a troubling truth was revealed about the…
U.K. Community Leaders Fight Covid-19 Vaccine Misinformation | The New York Times
by Geneva Abdul
April 8, 2021
Minority communities in Britain have long felt estranged from the government and medical establishment, but their sense of alienation is…
Kate Crawford – Atlas of AI | Digital Democracies Institute
April 7, 2021
Prof. Kate Crawford is a leading scholar who has spent the last decade studying the social and political implications of…
Syllabus: Critical Disinformation Studies | Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life
by Alice Marwick, Rachel Kuo, Shanice Jones Cameron, and Moira Weigel
April 7, 2021
Many of the stories that pundits, journalists, and scholars tell about disinformation begin with the 2016 US presidential election and…
Challenges and Considerations for Misinformation Research | Center for an Informed Public
April 7, 2021
The Center for an Informed Public at the University of Washington is planning a virtual workshop, “Challenges and Considerations for Misinformation Research,” on May…
African Immigrant Organizations Fight COVID-19 Vaccine Disinformation | NPR
by All Things Considered
April 7, 2021
Switching between Swahili and English, Dr. Frank Minja asked the African immigrants on the Zoom call if they had any…
Social media users in Kenya and South Africa trust science, but still share COVID-19 hoaxes | The Conversation
by Herman Wasserman and Dani Madrid-Morales
April 7, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to widespread disinformation circulating on social media globally. This includes false information about the virus,…
Millions of white evangelicals do not intend to get vaccinated. |The New York Times
by Elizabeth Dias and Ruth Graham
April 6, 2021
Across white evangelical America, reasons not to get vaccinated have spread quickly. The deeply held spiritual convictions or counterfactual arguments…