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Best to not look at what twitter is now.

What’s so peculiar is that with each swirl down the toilet, there are people still asking…

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Granovetter, M. S. (1973). The Strength of Weak Ties. American Journal of Sociology, 78(6), 1360–1380. doi:10.1086/225469 Imagine, to begin with, a community completely partitioned into cliques, such that each person is tied to every other in his clique and to none outside. Community organization would be severely inhibited. Leafletting, radio announcements,or other methods could insure that everyone was aware of some nascent organization; but studies of diffusion and mass communication have shown that people rarely act on mass-media information unless it is also transmitted through personal ties (Katz and Lazarsfeld 1955; Rogers 1962)

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PR saturation and you.

2024-10-04

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Nose hype…

2024-09-26

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Nobody is old unless they’re older than N-of-1 Paul Offit.

2024-09-25

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don't wait for everybody - Chloe Humbert

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Don’t wait for the influencers.

Don’t Wait For Everybody – Episode 010

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Mark Zuckerberg’s insufferable letter on covid censorship.

2024-09-06

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Screenshot of Mike Hoerger’s twitter posts.

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Hyping for Godot.

2024-08-20

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Penalties possibly coming for fake reviews for products pushed on social media.

2024-08-17

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JAMA on instagram - Image text: Misinformation is a major problem. The spread of misinformation is a concern for US adults across age, gender, education, and partisanship. 86% of adults say the spread of false and inaccurate information generally is a major problem 74% of adults say the spread of false and inaccurate information about health issues is a major problem Percent who think the following are not doing enough or doing about the right amount to limit the spread of health misinformation: Almost 80% think Congress is not doing enough and over 10% think Congress is doing the right amount. Around 70% think the US news media is not doing enough and less than 20% think the US news media is doing the right amount. Over 60% think Social media is not doing enough and around 10% think Social media is doing the right amount. Over 60% think President Biden is not doing enough and 20% think President Biden is doing the right amount.

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Nobody is immune to misinformation.

2024-08-04

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Hypernormalisation Documentary, 2016, by Adam Curtis. ”The liberals were outraged at Trump. But they expressed their outrage in cyberspace so it had no effect. Because the algorithms made sure that they only spoke to people who already agreed with them. Instead ironically their waves of angry messages and tweets benefitted the large corporations who ran the social media platforms. one online analyst put it simply — angry people click. It meant that the radical fury that came like waves across the internet no longer had the power to change the world. Instead it became a fuel that fed the systems of power making them ever more powerful.”

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The problem of busy work activism.

2024-07-30

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Conflation of social media with free speech is disingenuous & inaccurate.

2024-06-26

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Don’t insert ads disguised as testimonial into any conversations anywhere!

2024-06-26

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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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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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A Long Hauler Redditor.

2024-04-30

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

2024-04-20

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Screenshot with a big X in red marker over the image of a youtube video at the point in the video 36 seconds in, and on the screen is the word colloidal silver in big letters and a screenshot of a PLOS ONE article or study titled “Evaluation of silver nanoparticles for the prevention of SARS-CoV-2 infection in health workers: in vitro and in viv” the video title is Nasal Sprays and Reducing the Risk of COVID Reinfection posted on the channel RTHM Health 787 subscribers 820 views Sep 18, 2023 RTHM’s Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Jennifer Curtin talks about nasal sprays and their impact on preventing or treating SARS-CoV-2. Dr. Curtin recommends colloidal silver in both nasal sprays and oral rinses and uses them for her own COVID risk reduction.

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Lefty zine promoting right-wing pseudoscience protocols of an expensive concierge clinic?

2024-04-10

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Screenshot of tweet, Joe Friday @justthefacts85 1:49 AM · Jun 24, 2022 These are just a few recent ones as I didn’t go back that far. I’m sure most posts, if not all, are lifted from others. (Last row reversed, sorry.) I don’t know if this is some kind of bot or what. Image attached to tweet are a series of screenshots showing Sammy4723 tweets verbatim copied from the original tweets as follows, TalkerTeacher don’t know who needs to hear this right now but it is perfectly normal to want to avoid catching a potentially debilitating disease during a world- altering pandemic anyone telling you different has an agenda that does not have your health and well-being in mind 8:55 AM 6/19/22 LaurentForan: In the future, students will read in their history book the chapter on the 2020s with shock and anger. “How can a ruling class consciously let a virus kill millions?” When they’ll learn that it was the logic of the profit system, they’ll understand the subsequent revolution. 6:20 PM 6/19/22, and AmySpiro: Israel confirmed more than 10,000 new COVID cases yesterday for the first time since early April. The positivity rate of all those tested yesterday is close to 40%. 2:11 AM 6/20/22

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Sammy4723, anonymous pandemic influencer sock puppet account.

2024-04-04

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