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The infodemic of misinformation and disinformation around the coronavirus is a serious threat to understanding how to deal with the pandemic ā but this is nothing new. The big picture: […]
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Facing an urgent demand for access to the latest coronavirus research, scientists are speeding up the process of publicizing their findings, at the risk of enabling the spread of scientific […]
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For a handful of disinformation researchers, the information crisis that has unfolded around the coronavirus pandemic seemed inevitable. Joan Donovan, Claire Wardle and Kate Starbird have been preparing for this […]
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Despite years of added familiarity, social media giants have found no magic bullet to fight disinformation, or āfake news,ā since the 2016 U.S. elections. If anything, Americaās adversaries, including Russia […]
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A video laden with falsehoods about Covid-19 emerged on Facebook last week, and has now been viewed many millions of times. The company has taken steps to minimize the videoās […]
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wdm-post-content wdm-post-grid How do you cover a conspiracy theory? Journalists who write about misinformation know that the trick is to debunk the falsehoods without amplifying them or generating any suggestion […]
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NPR’s Ailsa Chang talks with Neil Johnson, a professor of physics at George Washington University, about his study on the spread of scientific misinformation about the coronavirus and its effects. […]
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Last month, a group of Stanford University researchers released a remarkable study: Covid-19 infections in Santa Clara, Calif., might well be 85 times higher than official estimates. The fatality rate […]