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Data Broker Is Selling Location Data of People Who Visit Abortion Clinics | Vice
by Joseph Cox
May 5, 2022
A location data firm is selling information related to visits to clinics that provide abortions including Planned Parenthood facilities, showing…
Fighting Misinformation With Science Journalism : Short Wave | NPR
by Eva Tesfaye
March 18, 2022
The podcast Science Vs. has called on its parent company, Spotify, to curb misinformation on its platform. On December 31,…
Florida’s latest anti-health political stunt is to cast doubt on kids’ vaccines | Ars Technica
by Beth Mole
March 9, 2022
Sometimes fighting a common enemy can unite a country, inspiring solidarity, bravery, and sacrifice. Ordinary citizens become heroes; leaders become…
What a bottle of ivermectin reveals about the shadowy world of COVID telemedicine | NPR
by Geoff Brumfiel
February 18, 2022
Ben Bergquam was hospitalized with COVID in January. He says he brought his own prescription for ivermectin — an unproven…
The Real Harm of Crisis Text Line’s Data Sharing | WIRED
by Keith Porcaro
February 3, 2022
Another week, another privacy horror show: Crisis Text Line, a nonprofit text message service for people experiencing serious mental health…
Newsletter company Substack profits off misinformation | The Washington Post
by Elizabeth Dwoskin
January 27, 2022
Joseph Mercola, a leading anti-vaccine advocate whose screeds have been restricted by YouTube and Facebook, this month warned that the…
I’ve been lied about and others get death threats. Covid has shown the power of misinformation | The Guardian
by Devi Sridhar
January 3, 2022
Before the experience of the past two years of Covid-19, I had assumed that a deadly viral outbreak would be…
COVID-19 vaccines for children: How parents are influenced by misinformation, and how they can counter it | The Conversation
by Jaime Sidani, Beth Hoffman, and Maya Ragavan
December 16, 2021
Since COVID-19 vaccines became available for children ages 5 to 11 in early November 2021, many families have been lining…
A Limiting Lens: How Vaccine Misinformation Has Influenced Hispanic Conversations Online | First Draft
by Jaime Longoria, Daniel Acosta, Shaydanay Urbani and Rory Smith
December 9, 2021
Hispanic people in the United States are nearly twice as likely as non-Hispanic white people to be infected with Covid-19…