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Towards a Post-Pandemic World: Lessons from COVID-19 for Now and the Future | NASEM
5 days ago
Join the Forum on Microbial Threats for an exciting virtual conversation about what we've learned from 15 months of living…
Doctors Spreading COVID-19 Misinformation Have Not Been Penalized | Time
by Victoria Knight
5 days ago
Earlier this month, Dr. Rashid Buttar posted on Twitter that COVID-19 “was a planned operation” and shared an article alleging that most people…
Facebook Rolls Out News Feed Change That Blocks Watchdogs from Gathering Data | The Markup
by Corin Faife
5 days ago
Facebook has begun rolling out an update that is interfering with watchdogs monitoring the platform. The Markup has found evidence…
Call for Proposals: “COVID-19 Recovery: Building future pandemic preparedness and understanding citizen engagement in the USA and UK” | The British Academy
by The British Academy (BA), the Social Science Research Council, and the Science & Innovation Network in the USA
September 16, 2021
This programme invites UK and US-based researchers at any career stage, and active in any discipline within the humanities and…
Forceful vaccine messages backfire with holdouts – how can it be done better? | The Conversation
by S. Shyam Sundar
September 16, 2021
With the FDA approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and the continued surge of the delta variant, governments across the world…
Pandemic tech left out public health experts. Here’s why that needs to change. | MIT Technology Review
by Lindsay Muscato
September 15, 2021
Exposure notification apps were developed at the start of the pandemic, as technologists raced to help slow the spread of…
Facebook Says Its Rules Apply to All. Company Documents Reveal a Secret Elite That’s Exempt. | WSJ
by Jeff Horwitz
September 14, 2021
Mark Zuckerberg has publicly said Facebook Inc. allows its more than three billion users to speak on equal footing with…
Nigeria: How Does Faith Affect Disinformation? | Institute for War and Peace Reporting
by Ishaya Ibrahim
September 14, 2021
Earlier this year, David Lloyd, bishop of the Living Faith Church, told 50,000 people at one of his services in…
Germany Braces for Election Disinformation on Social Media | Foreign Policy
by Jessica Bateman
September 14, 2021
BERLIN—One Saturday last month, thousands of anti-lockdown protesters stormed my quiet neighborhood, crashing into the weekly farmers’ market with signs…