All the platforms with their black box manipulative algorithms are problematic.
Tag: disinformation
What to expect by what we already had in a Trump admin CDC.
I think a lot of people have memory holed just how bad the Trump administration was even before the pandemic.
Community notes is not freedom and social media algorithms do not make for a community center.
Almost any flawed org, coffee klatch, or chat group is going to have more social ROI and less disinformation than mixing it up with fake accounts and targeted marketing on the big platforms.
Even Trump voters didn’t sign up for invading Greenland, right?
The whole Greenland thing should be dropped. Nobody voted for this.
Far from being satisfied, winning just emboldens the violent Trumpies.
The idea that you can satiate people determined to create havoc and harm is ridiculous on its face. In the wake of the election in 2016 I witnessed harassment myself almost immediately.
Stephen Miller behind a lawsuit for an anti-vax activist seeking to silence internet researchers.
“a remarkably unprecedented state of affairs like that is an astonishing breach of norms”
Anti-mandate IS anti-vax, once more, this time with feeling.
And, in fact, being against public health mitigation efforts at all is actually anti-vax because NPIs (Non-pharmaceutical Interventions) are actually needed to support the vaccines.
Fossil fuel PR operative claims Harris lost Pennsylvania because people want more burning coal.
Write your reps and tell them how their constituent voters are not these big coal burning fans.
Don’t fall for AI hype
ECB has warned that the AI boom may be an asset price bubble that’s putting integrated global equity markets at risk.
Jay Bhattacharya is unqualified to lead the NIH — still promoting bogus covid cures in 2024
This person must not be installed in a position where he will jeopardize the health of Americans with his fringe pseudoscience ideas.
Ohio wants to force doctors to give quack cure to kids with covid.
The knock on effects of this would probably be many and very problematic.
FBI hopeful Kash Patel promoted misinfo fueled covid product.
The marketing claim promoting this quacky covid product is that it can “reverse” the effects of covid vaccines is based on misinformation claiming wrongly that the vaccines are giving people some type of damage based on things that don’t even make sense.
The problem with going to social media for “information”.
Yes, this is something I hear about regularly, people saying how they’re relying on social media sources for “good information” and seeking it nowhere else.
Right-wing voices intent on spreading bird flu & misinformation.
Various right-wing covid minimizers are pushing all sorts of misleading things about the very real threats of H5N1.
Hinting atrocities.
I just keep racking up instances where I see things going on in the US that are eerily familiar to things I’ve read about Rwanda. Seems problematic.
Jessica Pants On Fire
Why I don’t share this influencer’s content, and I don’t think you should either.
Lots of stuff presented as “public health” is not.
Is it a product cult or MLM? Is it just some PR operation? Are they providing effective strategies and information or just wasting a lot of time? There may indeed be different paths and approaches that people want to take with things, but the problem is that it’s not always clear what you’re getting into […]
Tis the season people lie to friends & family about testing positive.
Tis the season people lie to friends & family about testing positive.
Radios are a good thing to have. Devices that require cell service are cell phones and are not the same as radios.
I keep seeing commercials for “rapid radios” where they are trying to pitch these “walkie talkie” type devices as radios that can reach across the country. This is misleading nonsense.
Communities have been, and continue to be, manipulated.
Public health isn’t about a niche group with special or secret practices, and community care shouldn’t be gate kept away from people who for whatever reason haven’t been afforded information or opportunity.