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Medical Expert Who Corrects Trump Is Now a Target of the Far Right | The New York Times
by Davey Alba and Sheera Frenkel
6 days ago
At a White House briefing on the coronavirus on March 20, President Trump called the State Department the “Deep State…
Coronavirus modelers factor in new public health risk: Accusations their work is a hoax | Washington Post
by William Wan and Aaron Blake
March 27, 2020
In the one month since the first U.S. coronavirus death, America has become a country of uncertainty. New cases of infection…
Inside a pro-Trump YouTube disinformation network that spans Vietnam to Bosnia | CNET
by Richard Nieva
March 23, 2020
At first glance, Misrad Sulejmanovic could be your typical YouTuber. The 25-year-old from Bosnia and Herzegovina has a following of…
Exposure to untrustworthy websites in the 2016 US election | Nature Human Behaviour
by Andrew M. Guess, Brendan Nyhan, & Jason Reifler
March 4, 2020
Although commentators frequently warn about echo chambers, little is known about the volume or slant of political misinformation that people…
Washington Post Amplifies Climate Change Denialism From the Heartland Institute | VICE
by Karl Bode
February 25, 2020
The Heartland Institute has spent decades peddling pseudoscience on behalf or major corporations. From helping big tobacco downplay smoking cancer…
My Reality Is More Truthful Than Yours: Radical Right-Wing Politicians’ and Citizens’ Construction of “Fake” and “Truthfulness” on Social Media—Evidence From the United States and The Netherlands | International Journal of Communication
by Michael Hameleers
February 19, 2020
Although a growing body of literature has provided important insight into the conceptualization and consequences of mis- and disinformation, we…
Fox News Keeps Rudy Giuliani On-Air Despite Internal ‘Disinformation’ Docs | Daily Beast
by Justin Baragona
February 18, 2020
Even though internal Fox News documents caution that frequent guests Rudy Giuliani and John Solomon traffic in “disinformation,” the network…
‘Truth is not the goal.’ Facebook ‘news’ site admits to misleading 50,000 NC followers | Raleigh News & Observer
by Hayley Fowler
February 18, 2020
College students, Alec Baldwin or a Russian bot? A Facebook page called North Carolina Breaking News describes itself as “satire/parody”…
VKontakte vs. Facebook: From Open White Supremacy To Stealth | bellingcat
by Eliza Hutchinson
February 14, 2020
In March of 2019, Facebook banned white nationalist and white separatist statements from its platform. White supremacism had been forbidden…