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  • Conspiracy theorists made Tiffany Dover into an anti-vaccine icon. She’s finally ready to talk about it | NBC News

    April 12, 2023

    Tiffany Dover is alive. Sitting across from Tiffany at her kitchen table, this is obvious. She breathes in and out. She gestures with her hands. She laughs generously. Dimples carve […]

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  • Science and Ethics of “Curing” Misinformation | Journal of Ethics | American Medical Association

    March 2, 2023

    A growing chorus of academicians, public health officials, and other science communicators have warned of what they see as an ill-informed public making poor personal or electoral decisions. Misinformation is […]

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  • Essentially Unprotected: Health Data and the Surveillance of Essential Workers During the Covid-19 Pandemic

    February 16, 2023

    The COVID-19 pandemic radically changed the lives of essential workers in America, shifting the conditions, timing, equipment, and spatial practices of their work, and expanding surveillance inside the workplace. And […]

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  • Heidi Tworek

    February 8, 2023

    Heidi Tworek is Associate Professor of International History and Public Policy and Canada Research Chair (Tier II) at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Her work examines the history […]

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  • Changing the Focus on Fighting Vaccine Hesitancy: From Correcting Misinformation to Building Trust in Official Information

    February 2, 2023

    Lessons from a Public Opinion Analysis in Colombia A year ago, when this research project started, we anticipated two obstacles for immunization plans against Covid-19 in Colombia and, more generally, […]

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  • Fault Lines: The Expert Panel on the Socioeconomic Impacts of Science and Health Misinformation | Council of Canadian Academies

    January 30, 2023

    Misinformation is an urgent societal concern that affects us all. Science and health misinformation exposes us to harms both personal and collective. On an individual level, it can leave us […]

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  • Hidden Harms: The Misleading Promise of Monitoring Students Online | Center for Democracy and Technology

    August 10, 2022

    The pressure on schools to keep students safe, especially to protect them physically and support their mental health, has never been greater. The mental health crisis, which has been exacerbated […]

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  • Journalists covering abortion news are under attack | Scalawag

    June 29, 2022

    What does it mean for a website to “encourage” abortion? New anti-abortion model legislation released last week by the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) would force anyone who publishes […]

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  • Big Tech remains silent on questions about data privacy in a post-Roe world | MIT Technology Review

    June 29, 2022

    Google says in its terms of service that the company reserves the right to remove any content that violates the law or could harm other users, third parties, or Google […]

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  • The biggest privacy risks in seeking abortion care in post-Roe America | The Verge

    June 29, 2022

    For millions of Americans, finding abortion services in the US just became a legal minefield. With the Supreme Court’s ruling on Friday, suddenly “how to find an abortion” is a […]

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