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Job Opportunity: NewsQ Project Coordinator, Reliable Sources | Hacks/Hackers
by Hacks/Hackers
August 18, 2022
Hacks/Hackers is looking for a Research Coordinator to help us wrangle project resources and communications for a project that supports…
Meta Oversight Board to rule on COVID-19 misinformation policy | Poynter
by Seth Smalley
August 1, 2022
Meta has asked its Oversight Board whether its existing policy on the removal of COVID-19 misinformation — “introduced in extraordinary…
Facebook considering ending restrictions on Covid misinformation | The Guardian
by Alex Hern
July 27, 2022
Facebook is turning to its “supreme court” to decide whether to end restrictions on Covid misinformation, more than two years…
New COVID States Project Report: The Dobbs Decision, Support for Abortion, and 2022 Voting
July 26, 2022
A team of researchers from the COVID States Project will discuss the findings from their latest report comparing public attitudes…
Cognitive reflection is associated with greater truth discernment for COVID-19 headlines, less trust but greater use of formal information sources, and greater willingness to pay for masks among social media users in Pakistan | HKS Misinformation Review
by Ayesha Ali, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi
July 14, 2022
We evaluated the relationship between individual differences in cognitive reflection and the ability to discern between true and false COVID-19…
Belief correlations with parental vaccine hesitancy: Results from a national survey | American Anthropologist
by Luke J. Matthews, Sarah A. Nowak, Courtney C. Gidengil, Christine Chen, Joseph M. Stubbersfield, Jamshid J. Tehrani, and Andrew M. Parker
June 8, 2022
Abstract We conducted a nationally representative survey of parents’ beliefs and self-reported behaviors regarding childhood vaccinations. Using Bayesian selection among…
The Anti-Vaccine Movement’s New Frontier | The New York Times
by Moises Velasquez-Manoff
May 25, 2022
The mother of four brought her children, ranging in age from grade school to high school, to the doctor’s office…
Vaccine Misinformation, Parenting, and the COVID-19 Death Toll | NPR
by Allison Aubrey, Emily Kwong, and Margaret Cirino
May 18, 2022
Any hour now, the U.S. is expected to officially mark one million lives lost to the COVID-19 pandemic. Health correspondent…
How vaccine misinformation made the COVID-19 death toll worse | NPR
by A Martinez and Allison Aubrey
May 16, 2022
As the U.S. nears one million deaths from COVID-19, analysis finds nearly a third of those deaths could have been…