Tag: misinformation

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“Early Treatment” is a right-wing buzzword

2024-06-13

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Mechanical Turk hoax - image is drawing of the mechanical turk with a person hidden inside the machine to operate it. Image credit: Racknitz, Joseph Friedrich zu. 1789. Ueber Den Schachspieler Des Herrn Von Kempelen Und Dessen Nachbildung. Leipzig [u.a.]: Breitkopf.

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AI hype is just going to turn out to be the modern day mechanical turk scam.

2024-06-01

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Postcard with postcard stamp postage and addressed to President Joe Biden at the White House in Washington DC. Written text reads: May 29th 2024, Dear Joe Biden, It should not be legal to buy and sell healthcare data of patients. Data brokers should not be selling mental health data. Why aren’t these data brokers charged with selling stolen property? Why is it legal? Chloe Humbert in Scranton PA.

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Your healthcare data is out there. Your mental healthcare data is out there.

2024-05-31

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Some will “say anything” when it comes to diseases misinformation.

2024-05-31

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Image is a partial screenshot of the Full Measure video on Youtube Transcript shows the following closed captioning text: quote “ACCORDING TO A NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH STUDY, UP TO 25% OF ADULTS ARE STRICKEN WITH LONG COVID SIX MONTHS AFTER INFECTION. SYMPTOMS INCLUDE RETINA DETACHMENT, ATRIAL DEFIBRILLATION, AND OTHER ART PROBLEMS, BLOOD ISSUES, WEAKNESS, NERVE PAIN, AND MORE.” unquote. It has omitted the sentence spoken in the voiceover of the video, quote “Which could also be long vax if they were vaccinated.” unquote.

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A Full Measure Transcript of Omission

2024-05-29

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If you don’t write to your elected representatives, they just assume that you’re going to vote for them no matter what they do or at least that you don’t care about what they’re doing enough to be motivated to vote against them... Write your reps. Do it now. tinyurl.com/writingreps

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Are they really planning an anti-vax military retiree interahamwe in America?

2024-05-28

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Image is a graph the header reads Awareness and belief in health misinformation Misinformation is pervasive, but trust in health misinformation is less so. Percent who have heard or read false claim (only 5 of 10 claims shown) Percent who say false claim is definitely or probably true. Over 60% heard this false claim, and over 30% believe this false claim is true that The COVID-19 vaccines have caused thousands of sudden deaths. Over 60% heard this false claim, and nearly 25% believe this false claim is true that The MMR vaccines have been proved to cause autism in children. Over 50% heard this false claim, and over 25% believe this false claim is true that The COVID-19 vaccines have been proved to cause infertility Almost 50% heard this false claim, and over 30% believe this false claim is true that Ivermectin is an effective treatment for COVID-19. Over 40% heard this false claim, and 20% believe this false claim is true that More people have died of COVID-19 vaccines than of COVID-19 virus.

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Healthcare misinformation is a big problem, but we’re probably not going to solve this on social media alone.

2024-05-28

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Less than optimal organ transplants are preferable to death.

2024-05-20

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Posting and reposting sick burns that look like endorsements on social media.

2024-05-17

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Anti-mask was always a dark money campaign. Mar 28th, 2024 wat3rm370n on tumblr Image Alt Text: The disinformation didn’t just happen, it was deliberate. Teams Human. State Government Leadership Foundation openly bragged on social media about an advertising campaign that specifically targeted liberals to persuade them of the lie that masks supposedly do more harm than good.16 There is evidence that mask requirements are beneficial. But the State Government Leadership Foundation appears to have used old school advertising and simple repetition that uses the mere exposure effect, where people come to believe something simply because it seems familiar after hearing it a lot.17 teamshuman.substack.com/p/anti-mask-woke-washing Dark money from big corporations funded a right-wing think tank to do a deliberate advertising propaganda campaign to convince liberal Democrats that masks are bad. ProPublica headline: Buying Your Vote Big Corporations Put Up Seed Funding for Republican Dark Money Group IRS files show that some of the biggest companies in the country provided more than a million dollars a decade ago to launch a Republican dark money group. by Justin Elliott Feb. 14, 2013, 8 a.m. EST Tweet from State Government Leadership Foundation brags about an anti-mask advertising campaign targeting liberals.

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The pandemic era is now, and mask bans are unethical.

2024-05-17

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Conservative pundit influencer Dave Rubin incites fear and possible aggression toward people who wear respirator masks.

2024-05-16

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Scruples?

2024-05-15

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Image starts with a red flag emoji and the text reads: Sabotage works best when it looks like incompetence.

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Let’s not pretend that depressing voter turnout isn’t sabotage.

2024-05-14

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FDA VRBPAC covid vaccine public comment, date extended

2024-05-11

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Image is a screenshot of a youtube video called Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson April 7, 2024 — COVID Concerns, the transcript is to the right of the screen and some of the text is highlighted with marker in yellow that says quote “Together, Doctors Vaughn and Kory” and there’s a red marker arrow pointing from their names to two people on the video being interviewed by Attkisson in a room with lights on a boom, and a lamp on an end table lit in the corner. Jordan Vaughn is seated at the left with his hands folded, wearing a sport coat and light color pants and he’s watching Pierre Kory’s face as Kory is speaking. Kory is dressed in a dark black suit jacket with prominent shoulders, and black pants.

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Vaughn, what team is he actually on?

2024-05-08

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Bassist leaves The Pixies under cloud of gossip about supporting an anti-vax covid denier who attended Jan. 6th.

2024-05-07

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A Long Hauler Redditor.

2024-04-30

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If it sounds too good to be true, stop and review.

2024-04-29

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Lauren Boebert is NOT claiming “vaccine injury”.

2024-04-29

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Image is purple with images of fold-flat KN95 masks, the text reads INFECTION IS NOT INEVITABLE - Gathering with precautions saves lives and extends community care to all. #SeeYouSafer seeyousafer.org

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I don’t trust my safety to science hype in the pop culture press.

2024-04-28

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The campaign against child vaccination and in favour of widespread infection with contagious diseases is the same project.

2024-04-24

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Normalize asking people if they’re being paid to promote products and services!

2024-04-20

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