The spread of health-related misinformation and fake science news is not a trivial matter. When it comes to health, lives can be at stake.
Psychology Today
Meta Platforms plans to shut down a data tool long used by academic researchers, journalists and others to monitor the spread of content on its Facebook and Instagram services, the company said last week.
Wall Street Journal
This election season, Arizonans will play a crucial role in deciding which party will control Congress and who will occupy the White House. However, as we learned in 2020 and 2022, disinformation targets our communities, sowing distrust, manipulating voters and potentially threatening our voice at the ballot box.
Arizona Mirror
In a major case testing the role of the First Amendment in the internet age, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday hears arguments focused on the federal government's ability to combat what it sees as false, misleading or dangerous information online.
National Public Radio
Artificial intelligence is supercharging the threat of election disinformation worldwide, making it easy for anyone with a smartphone and a devious imagination to create fake – but convincing – content aimed at fooling voters.
The Associated Press
A recent social media post made what appeared to be a surprising announcement about the 2024 presidential race.
PolitiFact
If you’re reading this, you’re probably a news and politics junkie. Someone who reads multiple news sites a day, follows several news organizations on social media, and receives a few email newsletters.
Columbia Journalism Review
Google is restricting AI chatbot Gemini from answering questions about the global elections set to happen this year, the Alphabet-owned firm (GOOGL.O), opens new tab said on Tuesday, as it looks to avoid potential missteps in the deployment of the technology.
Reuters
Over the past 120 years, we’ve developed countermeasures to reduce or nearly eliminate many diseases that decimated humanity for millennia. Now, on the fourth anniversary of the Covid-19 pandemic, medical disinformation threatens to undo this progress.
Forbes
Between January and June 2023, the BBC received 14,488 escalations about on-air presenters or people considered at risk of online abuse, and 11,771 related to me. We’re not talking legitimate criticism here, but hate, including threats – violent and sexually explicit – and every misogynistic slur under the sun.
British VOGUE
On January 5, 2021, Rosanne Boyland left her home in Kennesaw, Georgia, for the ten-hour drive to Washington, DC. Boyland had fallen under the spell of the election-denier movement, bound by a belief that the incumbent president, Donald J. Trump
Time
If you worry about your own screen time, just think about the young people in your life. The amount of time they spend consuming media and scrolling through content might alarm you.
The Hechinger Report
In a new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, MIT Sloan School of Management professor David Rand and three coauthors use game theory to show that news producer behavior — rather than consumer preferences — may explain why misinformation gets engagement online.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Speaking at a media conference on Monday, Canada’s Health Minister Mark Holland said he is “deeply concerned” with the global measles outbreak and its potential impact on the country. “We’re seeing a lot of illness that was almost rendered non-existent, starting to come back because of vaccine hesitancy,” he said.
Global News
It’s cold and flu season, so coming down with a respiratory illness isn’t exactly uncommon. However, TikTok is sparking rumors — and likely medical misinformation — about a so-called new “mystery virus” that hasn’t been identified.
Medical Marketing and Media
Emma Heming Willis, the wife of well-known actor Bruce Willis, wants to set the record straight on how misguided media coverage of neurocognitive diseases can affect families — including her own. In a candid video posted on Instagram Sunday, Emma, 47, shared her response to being “clickbaited” by a headline about her family and her 68-year-old husband Bruce Willis’ health.
People
When your parents had financial troubles or questions about planning for the future, they may have sought the help of a financial adviser, their bank, or other professional. Today, many people turn to social media.
The Conversation
Even while the COVID-19 vaccines have been hailed as one of the greatest achievements in modern science, they have been swirled in misinformation perpetuated by anti-vaccine figures and organizations who question their efficacy and robust safety record.
Salon
Coined by the World Health Organization to denote a hypothetical future pandemic, "Disease X" is at the center of a blizzard of misinformation that American conspiracy theorists are amplifying -- and profiting from.
Barron’s
The countdown to November's presidential election begins in earnest with the Super Tuesday primaries, and that means social media feeds will be filled in the coming months with some predictable claims. Stop us if you've heard these before.
USA Today