#Misinformation

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DaiMirksha

What’s happening in Behsood #AFG has the potential to develop into a large scale violence. The misinformation around the issue has deeply divided the public, creating group anxieties and fear

Kathy Hoffman

Supt_Hoffman

Since the onset of #COVID19, state & local decision-makers have grappled with a challenging reality: the politicization of a pandemic.https://www.newsweek.com/pandemic-coronavirus-politicizing-polarizing-1513405 And after months of misi

SIMP CRIMSON (mini break)

FuckOffGiorno

I think one of the best ways to show the problem with misinformation being so widely spread on Twitter is the fact that someone can post inherently flawed or outright

Sam Mahood

Sam_Mahood

THREAD: A lie about signature verification used in California elections went viral today on Twitter. (Fact check here: https://twitter.com/CASOSvote/status/1361388630158155776?s=20)How did we get here? There's certainly evidence this is

Isaac

IsaacNyc5005

CNN Vs. Reality Op. Warp Speed laid out a pretty solid distribution plan,The reason many states have yet to distribute the vaccine sent to them is because they're governed by

Prof. Tom Crick

ProfTomCrick

Online Harms White Paper: full government response to the consultationhttps://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/online-harms-white-paper “The full government response confirms that @Ofcom will be named as the regulator in legislation, a

Ursula Wolfe-Rocca

LadyOfSardines

Not that anyone asked me (on here), but my advice to teachers re tomorrow: don't overthink your lesson plan; just make sure your lesson plan is about this moment &

Louis Bubrig

BubrigLouis

#AcademicChatter #scicomm @AcademicChatter Hi scientists and academics: I don't usually make threads like this but goddamn. Can we all stop pretending that the wave of anti-intellectualism in the US is

Janin Spoor

JaninSpoor

1/ I have been a teacher going on twenty-one years. We are going through some things as a country, but this morning I came across a post that really incensed

Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD

PeterHotez

Perhaps she was referring to a different country? Here in the US we're seeing a steep rise in hospitalizations and ICU admissions due to #COVID19 https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1281297572821372933 I fear we're entering

Antonio Regalado

antonioregalado

Lab-origin theory is a gathering of "overzealous activists, self-appointed detectives, unqualified writers, and politically motivated conspiracy theorists." Still this thread author goes on to say it's possible sars-cov-2 is a

Griffin Cock Foster

gcockfoster

I have seen people responding to and engaging with this tweet from @ChaseNFT and I wanted to comment, because it is a mix of legitimate points of debate, and then

Tiffany Ford

TiffanyFordTO

I wasn't going to share this, but I should. I tested positive for COVID-19 after an initial negative result. I knew it was a false negative because I experienced all

Davey Alba

daveyalba

Obviously, today's thread is going to be about misinformation that will flood out as the race is called. Biden took the lead in GA last night. There have been more

Glenn White

justicar

I have been saying this for years.When we first placed ads on the internet, the only thing we had as "proof" that the ads were running were webserver logs of

Joan Donovan, PhD 🦫

BostonJoan

Taking a deeper dive into Rep Hawley and his vision of technology policy. No surprises, he conflates time spent on a device with pathology and addition. He seems to be

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