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Posted on: 2023-10-31

Who’s Behind The (Mis)Leading Report?

Reputable news sources demonstrate transparency in all aspects of their operation. They disclose their sources of funding, identify staff who produce their content and clearly indicate their sources of information. If they commit errors, they openly acknowledge and correct these errors. Our investigation shows Leading Report exhibits none of these characteristics. The two individuals who run the website and its X/Twitter account appear to hold no relevant credentials in health, medicine or journalism.
- Climate
Posted on: 2023-07-19
Authorities undertaking climate action targeted by viral “Climate lockdowns” narrative on social media

The increasing number of measures to limit greenhouse gas pollution that can be expected in the future will certainly present opportunities for future weaponization and misrepresentation. Writers, editors, and journalists should be aware of these manipulation tactics when discussing the aftermath of COVID-19 restrictions or future climate policies, knowing that some actors are trawling for any evidence to boost the manufactured ‘climate lockdown’ outrage.
Posted on: 2023-02-22

Misinformation superspreaders are thriving on Musk-owned Twitter

A study of accounts that have repeatedly published popular tweets linking to known misinformation shows that their collective popularity has significantly grown (on average, +42% interactions per tweet) since Elon Musk took effective control of the platform on 27 October 2022. These results appear to run afoul of Twitter’s commitments as a signatory of the EU Code of Practice on Disinformation.
Posted on: 2022-09-08

Germany-based network of websites and Facebook accounts amplify clickbait content to monetize web traffic via Google AdSense and e-commerce

The pages appear to build their audience by promoting clickbait content—including misinformation and conspiracy theories—generated within the network, while concealing the fact that they are part of the same network.
- Health
Posted on: 2022-04-26
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…
Posted on: 2022-04-15

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…
- Climate
Posted on: 2021-12-20
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.
- Health
Posted on: 2021-07-29
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.…
- Health
Posted on: 2019-02-15
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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Posted on: 2019-01-28
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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Who’s Behind The (Mis)Leading Report?

Authorities undertaking climate action targeted by viral “Climate lockdowns” narrative on social media

Misinformation superspreaders are thriving on Musk-owned Twitter

Germany-based network of websites and Facebook accounts amplify clickbait content to monetize web traffic via Google AdSense and e-commerce

Shedding light on LinkedIn’s enforcement of health misinformation policies: A pilot study

Following the misinformation URL trail to identify key spreaders: A case study on Twitter

Demonetization of climate change misinformation on Youtube: a quick check on the implementation of Google Ads’ new policy

Copypasta of an ICU doctor’s tweet stokes COVID-19 skepticism by mimicking bot-like behavior

Here is who repeated an unsupported claim about “a complete cure for cancer in a year”, misleading millions on social media

The Most Popular Health Articles of 2018, a Scientific Credibility Review

Training and using ChatGPT uses a lot of energy, but exact numbers are tricky to pin down without data from OpenAI

Will solar panels overrun farmland? The two are more likely to coexist

Climate vs. weather: a deep dive on the key differences

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