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First anti-vaccine movement arose from smallpox mandate in England | The Washington Post
by Jess McHugh
November 16, 2021
In the early 19th century, British people finally had access to the first vaccine in history, one that promised to…
A Short History of Conservative Trolling | Intelligencer
by Rick Perlstein
October 28, 2021
David Frum, the former George W. Bush speechwriter and current never-Trump conservative, recently wrote, “The post-Trump right has a style…
Why Many Black Americans Changed Their Minds About Covid Shots | The New York Times
by Audra D.S. Burch and Amy Schoenfeld Walker
October 14, 2021
TUSKEGEE, Ala. — By the time vaccines for the coronavirus were introduced late last year, the pandemic had taken two…
How to disrupt America’s history of rebranding misinformation as ‘science’ | CNN
by Nicole Hemmer
September 28, 2021
This fall was supposed to be different. With the new Covid-19 vaccines, the country began to reopen during the summer…
Wikipedia’s Next Leader on Preventing Misinformation | The New York Times
by Davey Alba
September 28, 2021
Two decades ago, Wikipedia arrived on the scene as a quirky online project that aimed to crowdsource and document all…
A lesson from polio vaccination to address hesitancy for COVID-19 vaccine | The Hindu BusinessLine
by Bureau
September 28, 2021
In order to overcome the prevailing vaccine hesitancy for COVID-19, experts have found a solution in the polio vaccination experience.…
Unverified reports of vaccine side effects in VAERS aren’t the smoking guns portrayed by right-wing media outlets – they can offer insight into vaccine hesitancy | The Conversation
by Matt Motta and Dominik Stecula
August 25, 2021
Chances are you may not be not familiar with the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, or VAERS. Co-managed by the…
“In Kosovo, everybody has their own truth” | Columbia Journalism Review
by Scott Winter
August 24, 2021
Serbians and Albanians have clashed in the mountains and valleys of what is now Kosovo since the fourteenth century. In…
Critical disinformation studies: History, power, and politics | HKS Misinformation Review
by Rachel Kuo and Alice Marwick
August 13, 2021
This essay advocates a critical approach to disinformation research that is grounded in history, culture, and politics, and centers questions…