News Item Rejecting survival: How Trumpist denials of the COVID catastrophe impede recovery and renewal | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists By Robert J. Lifton on August 24, 2021
News Item Reddit takes a teach-the-controversy approach to pandemic and vaccines | Ars Technica By Jon Brodkin on August 26, 2021 Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance
News Item How a once-obscure government database turned into a weapon for anti-vaxxers | Nieman Journalism Lab By Matt Motta and Dominik Stecula on August 26, 2021
News Item 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 on August 25, 2021 Algorithms and Automation Targeted Disinformation
News Item About half of Americans use social media to follow COVID-19 vaccine news | Pew Research Center By Amy Mitchell and Jacob Liedke on August 24, 2021 Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance
News Item Misleading claims around FDA’s full approval of Pfizer vaccine | First Draft News By Keenan Chen on August 24, 2021
News Item A Harvard professor predicted COVID disinformation on the web. Here’s what may be coming next | The Boston Globe By Pranshu Verma on August 23, 2021
News Item The Noisy Minority | The Atlantic By David A. Graham on August 22, 2021 Credibility and Trust
News Item Wuhan lab leak theory: How Fort Detrick became a centre for Chinese conspiracies | BBC News By BBC staff on August 22, 2021 Targeted Disinformation
News Item There’s a psychological reason anti-vaccine misinformation is so hard to fight | Salon By Doreen Dodgen-Magee on August 21, 2021 Algorithms and Automation
