Shedding light on LinkedIn’s enforcement of health misinformation policies: A pilot study
Summary of findings The career- and business-oriented social media platform LinkedIn has been absent from the public conversation around the…
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Following the misinformation URL trail to identify key spreaders: A case study on Twitter
Introduction As social media platforms try to tackle the spread of misinformation, their first challenge is the reliable identification of…
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Demonetization of climate change misinformation on Youtube: a quick check on the implementation of Google Ads’ new policy
Google announced that any content, including YouTube videos, that ‘contradicts well-established scientific consensus around the existence and causes of climate change’ would not be able to earn revenue from Google ads. Our quick experiment shows that the policy is not systematically applied.
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Copypasta of an ICU doctor’s tweet stokes COVID-19 skepticism by mimicking bot-like behavior
Introduction The spread of the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 has put many countries back on high alert. Both the U.S.…
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Here is who repeated an unsupported claim about “a complete cure for cancer in a year”, misleading millions on social media
Another purported cure-all for cancer A claim that the “first complete cure for cancer” had been discovered by an Israeli…
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The Most Popular Health Articles of 2018, a Scientific Credibility Review
News about health and medicine touch the lives of many people, therefore they often become highly circulated on the Internet.…
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False claims of a coming ice age spread through ecosystem of unreliable news sites, blogs, and social media accounts
Similar claims that we would be heading towards an imminent “mini ice age” were also repeated without verification throughout a network of unreliable outlets for climate news including Sputnik, The Sun, Fox News, and numerous hyper-partisan blogs such as Zero Hedge, Principia Scientific, IceAgeNow, Alien-Star…
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False claim that global warming is natural propagates in a climate misinformation echo-chamber
The diagram below shows that the articles mostly rely heavily on each other—like in an echo chamber—with very few outside sources included in the reporting. A first wave of “reporting” appeared in The Spectator, The Daily Caller, The Daily Wire, and Breitbart, which were then largely copied and pasted in a second wave of posts with larger audiences…
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How the blogosphere spread and amplified the Daily Mail’s unsupported allegations of climate data manipulation
Early last month, British tabloid the Daily Mail published an article accusing the former director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration…