Semen smoothies to eating papad: How fake theories are weakening fight against Covid
4 years, 4 months ago

Semen smoothies to eating papad: How fake theories are weakening fight against Covid

India Today  

Don't wear a mask. Over the past few months, the world's fight against the coronavirus pandemic has been derailed by a flurry of conspiracy theories, hoaxes and misinformation. Follow coronavirus live updates From the time the virus emerged as a global threat, conspiracy theories and misinformation emerged online on various social media platforms. In the video, Immanuel suggested that facemasks are completely unnecessary and that she has cured hundreds of coronavirus patients with hydroxychloroquine, which seems to have become a Donald Trump favourite. Fight misinformation to stop Covid There are many more conspiracy theories and hoaxes about the coronavirus doing rounds online - some about vaccines or preventive cures.

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Miracle cures: Online conspiracy theories are creating a new age of unproven medical treatments
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Miracle cures: Online conspiracy theories are creating a new age of unproven medical treatments

The Independent  

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NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week
11 months ago

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week

Associated Press  

A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. In the days leading up to Wednesday’s panel on the topic, social media users began sharing a range of posts misrepresenting Disease X as real, and portraying it as an imminent threat to society. THE FACTS: News that migrants living in a temporary …

Op-Ed: The anti-vax movement was already getting scary. COVID supercharged it
2 years, 9 months ago

Op-Ed: The anti-vax movement was already getting scary. COVID supercharged it

LA Times  

Conspiracy theorists’ disinformation has led to the deaths of thousands of Americans every week by discouraging COVID-19 vaccinations. One study found that people who believe “9/11 truther” theories are more likely than average to also believe COVID-19 vaccines are dangerous. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an influential anti-vaxxer, said at a recent rally in Washington: “Bill Gates and his 65,000 satellites …

The gain-of-function Fauci COVID conspiracy theory: The full story of an ominous idea that has gripped Republicans.
54 years, 11 months ago

The gain-of-function Fauci COVID conspiracy theory: The full story of an ominous idea that has gripped Republicans.

Slate  

In early February, J.D. Vance, the Hillbilly Elegy author who is now running for Senate from Ohio, tweeted out his support for something called the “Public Health Protection Pledge.” Styled to look like an official certificate of completion, the pledge asserts that whoever signs it promises to “subpoena Dr. Anthony Fauci in order to investigate any corrupt activities to which …

Top US Scientist Backtracks on ‘Smoking Gun’ COVID Lab Leak Theory
3 years, 6 months ago

Top US Scientist Backtracks on ‘Smoking Gun’ COVID Lab Leak Theory

The Quint  

In an email to the LA Times, Baltimore wrote, “ should have softened the phrase ‘smoking gun’ because I don’t believe that it proves the origin of the furin cleavage site but it does sound that way. “I believe that the question of whether the sequence was put in naturally or by molecular manipulation is very hard to determine but …

Covid-19 has shown us what conspiracy theories can do
3 years, 8 months ago

Covid-19 has shown us what conspiracy theories can do

Live Mint  

Daniel Roberts hadn’t had a vaccination since he was 6. I guess I chose to believe the facts.” As the world struggles to break the grip of COVID-19, psychologists and misinformation experts are studying why the pandemic spawned so many conspiracy theories, which have led people to eschew masks, social distancing and vaccines. “People need big explanations for big problems, …

Articles Linking COVID-19 Vaccines To Death Seem To Be Driving Misinformation Online
3 years, 9 months ago

Articles Linking COVID-19 Vaccines To Death Seem To Be Driving Misinformation Online

NPR  

Articles Linking COVID-19 Vaccines To Death Seem To Be Driving Misinformation Online Ahead of congressional testimony from the heads of Facebook, Twitter and Google, a new NPR analysis finds that articles linking COVID-19 vaccines to death are driving misinformation online. New reporting from NPR out today shows that a specific type of story about vaccines has been spreading quickly online …

Misinformation on covid-19 and 5G spreads rapidly, just like the coronavirus
3 years, 11 months ago

Misinformation on covid-19 and 5G spreads rapidly, just like the coronavirus

Live Mint  

While 5G doesn’t cause covid-19, the rumours around it definitely spread as rapidly as the novel coronavirus, researchers have found out using the same epidemiological models that are employed to calculate the spread of infectious diseases. A team led by researchers from the Boston University School of Public Health, scientists from Harvard Medical School and École Polytechnique Fédérale examined the …

Trump says US Covid cases, deaths exaggerated
3 years, 11 months ago

Trump says US Covid cases, deaths exaggerated

Live Mint  

US President Donald Trump on Sunday said that the record-breaking numbers of new COVID-19 cases, nearly 300,000 in the past 24 hours, are exaggerated due to the Centers for Disease Control method of counting. "The number of cases and deaths of the China Virus is far exaggerated in the United States because of @CDCgov 's ridiculous method of determination compared …

'Fake News' About Covid-19 Vaccine has Become a Second Pandemic, Red Cross Chief Says
4 years ago

'Fake News' About Covid-19 Vaccine has Become a Second Pandemic, Red Cross Chief Says

News 18  

Covid-19 vaccines are fast approaching, but a second pandemic might impede efforts to recover from the first, according to the president of a global humanitarian aid group. Francesco Rocca, president of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, said in a virtual briefing to the UN Correspondents Association on Monday that governments and institutions needed to implement …

News orgs prove Trump’s outlandish claim wrong as they continue spotlighting coronavirus
4 years, 1 month ago

News orgs prove Trump’s outlandish claim wrong as they continue spotlighting coronavirus

CNN  

CNN Business — A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. Wednesday’s WaPo A1 features a map accompanied by a headline that warns, “Surge shows no sign of easing.” CNN’s homepage is featuring a story with a headline that reads, “Coronavirus hospitalizations in US reach an all-time high with more than 60,000.” And NYT’s homepage focuses …

‘Enough Of The Lies’: Joe Biden Is Done With Donald Trump’s COVID-19 BS In New Ad
4 years, 1 month ago

‘Enough Of The Lies’: Joe Biden Is Done With Donald Trump’s COVID-19 BS In New Ad

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING President Donald Trump’s monthslong lies about the coronavirus pandemic are the focus of a new ad from Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s campaign. The 51-second clip begins with footage of Trump in January claiming COVID-19 will simply “disappear.” Subsequent footage shows Trump repeatedly downplaying the threat of the virus, while acknowledging its danger in private. The United States …

Coronavirus Infodemic: People Falling for Conspiracy Theories, Hoaxes More Reluctant to Vaccines
4 years, 2 months ago

Coronavirus Infodemic: People Falling for Conspiracy Theories, Hoaxes More Reluctant to Vaccines

News 18  

Up to a third of people in certain countries may believe coronavirus misinformation and in turn, be less open to immunisation, scientists said Wednesday, warning that development of a vaccine “might not be enough”. Researchers in Britain and the Netherlands conducted surveys in the UK, United States, Ireland, Mexico and Spain and found that while most people rejected Covid-19 conspiracy …

Donald Trump fears coronavirus: Urgency US president showed in seeking treatment puts paid to lies about pandemic
4 years, 2 months ago

Donald Trump fears coronavirus: Urgency US president showed in seeking treatment puts paid to lies about pandemic

Firstpost  

The facts of Trump’s experience with coronavirus, including how how quickly it sickened him to the point of requiring intensive medical care, are the best tools to fight the misinformation campaign against COVID-19 Something momentous happened late last week, a brief pinprick of clarity piercing through the haze: President Donald Trump finally showed Americans the truth about the coronavirus. But …

Misinformation spikes as Trump confirms COVID-19 diagnosis
4 years, 2 months ago

Misinformation spikes as Trump confirms COVID-19 diagnosis

Associated Press  

CHICAGO — News Friday that President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump had tested positive for COVID-19 sparked an explosion of rumors, misinformation and conspiracy theories that in a matter of hours littered the social media feeds of many Americans. Other social media users were suggesting that Trump’s diagnosis is a hoax aimed at generating sympathy among voters or …

Trump Testing Positive for Covid-19 Reminds Twitter of When He Called it a 'Hoax'. But Did He?
4 years, 2 months ago

Trump Testing Positive for Covid-19 Reminds Twitter of When He Called it a 'Hoax'. But Did He?

News 18  

On Friday, the world woke up to some shocking news. I also hold extreme resentment and anger to a man who sat idly by as all of us, including myself, lost friends and loved ones as he insisted 1) it was a hoax 2) it would magically disappear and 3) that people who wore masks were fools.— Josh Gad October …

Hydroxychloroquine is a poor coronavirus treatment but a perfect parable for our times
4 years, 4 months ago

Hydroxychloroquine is a poor coronavirus treatment but a perfect parable for our times

ABC  

The group had all the trappings of medical authority. Since March 1, public posts containing the word "hydroxychloroquine" have received at least 55 million "interactions" on Facebook — a measure that includes reactions, shares or comments. And in the months since, President Trump and members of his administration have repeatedly returned to the hydroxychloroquine narrative despite the protests of White …

Hydroxychloroquine: Trump defends disproved Covid-19 treatment
4 years, 4 months ago

Hydroxychloroquine: Trump defends disproved Covid-19 treatment

Live Mint  

President Donald Trump issued a stout defense Tuesday of a disproved use of a malaria drug as a treatment for the coronavirus, hours after social media companies moved to take down videos promoting its use as potentially harmful misinformation. Trump, his son Donald Trump Jr., and others shared video of the event on Facebook and Twitter, prompting both companies to …

Warnings against anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid-19 patients were politically motivated: Donald Trum
4 years, 4 months ago

Warnings against anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid-19 patients were politically motivated: Donald Trum

Live Mint  

US President Donald Trump said the medical community’s widespread warnings against using the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid-19 patients were politically motivated to damage him. Trump had shared a video of people dressed in white lab coats who called themselves “America’s Frontline Doctors” staging a press conference about the virus. “He’s got a pretty good approval rating, so just …

Trump again pushes unproven hydroxychloroquine as Covid-19 treatment
4 years, 4 months ago

Trump again pushes unproven hydroxychloroquine as Covid-19 treatment

Live Mint  

WASHINGTON: A week after appearing to project a more serious tone about the coronavirus, President Donald Trump is back to pushing unproven claims that an anti-malaria drug is an effective treatment and challenging the credibility of the nation's leading infectious disease expert. The president also shared a post from the Twitter account for a podcast hosted by Steve Bannon, a …

Getting a coronavirus test? Don't believe the myths and conspiracy theories about how PCR test kits work
4 years, 5 months ago

Getting a coronavirus test? Don't believe the myths and conspiracy theories about how PCR test kits work

ABC  

Melbourne is in the midst of a testing blitz to control the latest coronavirus outbreak. "PCR tests are used in Victoria and are one of the most common ways to test for coronavirus," he said. Another version of the misinformation shared in Australian conspiracy-theory Facebook groups incorrectly claims PCR tests can "break the blood-brain barrier" and allow "bacteria & other …

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