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Last month, a group of Stanford University researchers released a remarkable study: Covid-19 infections in Santa Clara, Calif., might well be 85 times higher than official estimates. The fatality rate […]
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The other night, midway through watching a clip from âPlandemicâ â a documentary that went viral on social media last week, spreading baseless lies and debunked nonsense about the coronavirus to […]
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On April 23, President Donald Trump told a press conference that among other things scientists had learned about the SARS-CoV-2 virus was the fact that it could be neutralized by […]
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Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, the big social platforms have generally been quicker than usual to intervene in the spread of misinformation. Weâve seen Facebook, Google, and Twitter add various […]
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Last week, the world got a preview of how Google and Appleâs contact tracing project might look and function. Some privacy and security experts have expressed cautious optimism that the […]
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Access to accurate and up-to-date information is essential for individual and collective decision making, especially at times of emergency. On February 26, 2020, two weeks before the World Health Organization […]
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The ongoing worldwide coronavirus pandemic hasn’t been immune to the problem of rampant disinformationâintentionally misleading information or propaganda. In fact, the European External Action Service of the European Union recently […]
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WHO has joined forces with the communications teams at the Government of the United Kingdom and the Prime Ministerâs office for an awareness campaign about the risks of incorrect and […]
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In a 10-week span at the end of 2019, 83 peopleâmost under the age of 5âdied from a disease outbreak in the South Pacific island nation of Samoa. The government undertook […]
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McClatchyâs bankruptcy is barreling to a conclusion. Tribuneâs quietly trimming its board to prepare for a merger. Google and Facebook face unprecedented calls to pay up on at least three […]