covid 19 misinformation
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U.S. Intelligence Agencies: Covid-19 Not a Biological Weapon, but Lab Incident Still on the Table
In a Friday afternoon news dump, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) released an unclassified summary of its report on the origins of covid-19, which concludes that the deadly virus was not created as a biological weapon but does not rule out the possibility that its spread was due to a research-related…
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Facebook News Consumers Are More Anti-Vaccine Than Fox News Viewers, Study Finds
Joe Biden might want to consider re-backpedaling after backpedaling his accusation that social media companies [Facebook] are “killing people” by spreading vaccine conspiracies and bunk. A new study suggests that Facebook’s news consumers are inordinately unwilling to get the covid-19 vaccine.
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Facebook Just Blocked the #VaccinesKill Hashtag Two Years Too Late
At least two years after it would have been politically prudent to do so, Facebook moved to block content under the #VaccinesKill hashtag on Wednesday.
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Twitter May Start Labelling Your Tweets Based on How Wrong You Are
Twitter is one of many social media companies that’s struggled to keep misinformation from running rampant on its platform over the years. Its latest attempt to move the needle looks to be a tiered warning label system that changes based on how wrong you are, according to app researcher Jane Manchun Wong.