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A stampede for an unproven “cure” for Covid-19 is clearing the pharmacy shelves of a medicine that is vital for up to 5 million people around the world suffering from […]
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency is trying to knock down a series of rumors and falsehoods that have been spreading along with the coronavirus pandemic. It launched a page on […]
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How do we deal with new information about Covid-19 at a time when the science, the advice and the consequences of the pandemic are all changing rapidly? People are being […]
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In the whirlwind of news about the novel coronavirus pandemic, it can be hard to figure out what’s a scam or rumor and what’s vital information. The ways in which […]
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We already had information overload. Then came a global pandemic. Coronavirus is an “everything story,” as Jon Allsop noted in Monday’s CJR newsletter: “unfathomably huge stories—that are all part of […]
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NOVI SANZHARY, Ukraine — The day the riots broke out began just like any other. Bells rang out from the church as people shuffled to work and students filed into […]
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A social media post has warned African Americans to not participate in the 2020 census. NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Jeri Green, a senior census advisor at the National Urban […]
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On the same day that federal health officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a warning that the new coronavirus was certain to spread within the United […]
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Chapter 4 of Ong, Tapsell, and Curato’s August 2019 report on disinformation in the Philippine midterm election offers context for coronavirus-related sinophobia in the Philippines. The opposition mobilised an anti-China narrative […]
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Among the many outlandish statements President Trump has made since taking office, one in particular stands out for me. Speaking in Kansas City, Mo., in the summer of 2018, he […]