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Is vehicle pollution still a problem? Yes, here’s why it still harms health and climate
Individual vehicle emissions have improved through tighter regulations and better technologies, but vehicle pollution is an ongoing issue that harms human health and worsens climate change.
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If sea levels are rising, why is the Maldives still above water?
If you want to see the front lines of climate change, you might think to look at the Maldives. Most…
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Global warming doesn’t mean everywhere is warming at the same rate, here’s why
Global warming may mean something different than you think. One misconception is that global warming means ‘all places on Earth are warming equally’, but this is not the case. In reality, global warming means that average global temperatures are rising over decades or more. Earth’s uneven heating means that some places warm faster or slower than the average global temperature rise over a given period.
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Recent Reviews
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MisleadingInfluencer Gary Brecka spreads misinformation about water fluoridation in Instagram post
Claim:
“[F]luoride is a neurotoxin. Studies link it to lower IQ in kids, thyroid dysfunction, and weakened bone density”
Source: Instagram, Gary Brecka, 2025-03-28 -
UnsupportedRising cancers in young adults preceded pandemic, unrelated to COVID-19 or vaccines, contrary to Patrick Soon-Shiong’s claims in Tucker Carlson interview
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COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines “are likely causing a global epidemic of terrifyingly aggressive cancers”
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IncorrectWhat is peer-review? Why one ‘peer-reviewed’ Grok-written paper doesn’t disprove climate change
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The first-ever artificial intelligence-led peer-reviewed climate science paper has confirmed that climate change is a hoax.
Source: Science of Climate Change, Willie Soon, Franklin Soon, Jonathan Cohler, David Legates, 2025-03-21 -
IncorrectSuzanne Humphries repeats debunked claims on vaccines, polio in Joe Rogan interview
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Polio renamed to hide its existence; polio vaccine doesn’t work; mercury, SV40 and DNA contamination in vaccines are harmful
Source: The Joe Rogan Experience, Suzanne Humphries, Joe Rogan, 2025-03-26 -
MisleadingAmid measles outbreak in Texas, RFK Jr. misleads on measles vaccine safety in Fox News interview
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Measles vaccine causes deaths every year and the same illnesses caused by measles
Source: Fox News, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 2025-03-11 -
MisleadingVitamin A doesn’t cure or prevent measles; vaccine is most effective prevention
Claim:
Vitamin A can prevent measles or treat measles symptoms
Source: Facebook, Social media users, 2025-02-28
Analyses & Investigations
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Slay News’ Frank Bergman isn’t a real person. We investigate who’s running misinformation site
Science Feedback investigation uncovers Slay News’ links to Paul Roughsedge and Stephen Anthony McQueen, founders of One Fox Digital, a UK-based IT consultancy.
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Sanctioned but Thriving: How Online Platforms Fail To Address the Widespread Presence of Entities Under EU Sanctions
given the ease with which such illegal content was discovered, Meta, Google, X/Twitter, TikTok and Telegram’s compliance teams should investigate why they seem not to have taken sufficient action to limit access.
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An unfair (algorithmic?) advantage: a popularity premium for low-credibility accounts on YouTube, Facebook and Instagram before the 2024 European Parliament elections
Analysis of YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram data in the run-up to the 2024 European Parliament elections campaign highlight a substantial “popularity premium” benefitting low-credibility accounts when compared to a control group of high-credibility accounts
News & events
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EuroClimateCheck: Climate fact-checking database website now live
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Telegram takes unprecedented step in blocking Russian media channels, but enforcement remains incomplete
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Science Feedback, QuotaClimat, and Data for Good Launch Climate Safeguard, an AI Tool to Detect Climate Misinformation on TV and Radio
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Le Monde
Climate disinformation thrives in some of the French audiovisual media
(Translated from French) Climate disinformation is no longer the sole domain of social networks but is also becoming ‘normalized’ in a part of the French audiovisual media. This is the main conclusion of a study published by Science Feedback, Data for Good and QuotaClimat, three non-governmental organizations (NGOs) specializing in the analysis of media coverage of ecological issues.
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CNN
Fact-checkers, targeted by MAGA loyalists, blast Zuckerberg’s assertion their work was ‘biased’
Science Feedback, another one of Meta’s fact-checking partners, said “the public faces an ever-growing risk of being misled by powerful actors prioritizing their own interests over the well-being of their audience or the public good.”
Science Feedback recently published an analysis finding that X’s community notes system failed to address “most of the misinformation identified by fact-checkers on the platform” around last year’s European Parliament elections.
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TV5 Monde
Climate: denial, fake news? climate disinformation is gaining ground
(translated from French) Climate denying influencers and certain political leaders are spreading false information. How can we combat this type of misinformation? We discussed with Marie-Eve Carignan, professor at the University of Sherbrook and Emmanuel Vincent, founder and executive director of Science Feedback.
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Wired Italia
On Facebook, Russian media don’t care about European sanctions
(translated from Italian) There are 52 pages and accounts of Russian media and individuals on Facebook, with a total of more than 3.9 million followers, which, despite having been sanctioned by the European Union after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, are still currently accessible to European citizens. This is according to a report published on July 31 by the Alliance for Europe and Science Feedback, two organizations that are part of the Counter Disinformation Network and specialize in analyzing online disinformation campaigns.