The epic battle against coronavirus misinformation and conspiracy theories
In the first few months of 2020, wild conspiracy theories about Bill Gates and the new coronavirus...
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Twitter-Trump clash intensifies political misinformation battle
President Donald Trump's threat to shut down social media companies after Twitter labeled two of his...
Will Twitter ever remove one of Trump’s inflammatory tweets?
For the first time, Twitter has added a fact-check label to a tweet by President Donald Trump that...
We Don’t Even Have a COVID-19 Vaccine, and Yet the Conspiracies Are Here
When a woman in Seattle volunteered for a COVID-19 vaccine trial, rumors began circulating that she was a crisis actor who had received a fake vaccine.
Anti-vaccination movements dominate on social networks. Find out how they are winning this "war"
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The Covid-19 pandemic has already become a...
The week in fact-checking: the pandemic election, Trump's weight
I participated recently in a YouTube discussion about "Presidential Communications in a Time of Crisis...
The Information Apocalypse Is Already Here, And Reality Is Losing
Two years ago, a video of former president Barack Obama using profane language when...
BBC World Service Radio spoke to Neil Johnson, professor of physics, about misinformation about...
Study shows how misinformation spreads online and fuels distrust
A recent study by physicist and Institute for Data, Democracy, and Politics ...
The epidemiology of misinformation
After Covid-19 was first identified in early January, the tools and techniques of science and medicine...