A Renegade South Korean Church Sparks Outbreak
By Polygraph
Jeon Kwang-Hunpastor at Sarang Jeil Church“Our church took every preventive measure, but the (Moon) administration spread the coronavirus to prevent me from attending...
Belarus Prez Claims He Never Dismissed COVID-19, But Here’s Proof
By Polygraph
Aleksandr LukashenkoPresident of Belarus“We have never denied that coronavirus existed. This is the way mass media has presented it. How can we deny...
Bolivia’s Congress Says Chloride Dioxide Kills Coronavirus. It Also Kills People
By Polygraph
Bolivian Chamber of Deputies“Citizens, and residents of the Bolivian territory, may use the Chlorine Dioxide Solution, as an alternative means, to prevent or...
Misinformation is Everybody’s Problem Now
By Joan Donovan and Claire Wardle, for Items
Misinformation can be deadly. The Covid-19 pandemic has demonstrated that fact clearly and tragically. While the big tech companies have...
People who engage with false news are hyper-concerned about truth. But they think it’s...
By Tommy Shane, for NiemanLab
“On Google, searching for ‘coronavirus facts’ gives you a full overview of official statistics and visualizations. That’s not the case...
The pandemic has spawned disinformation campaigns that blend truth, lies, and sincere beliefs
By Kate Starbird, republished in NiemanLab
“While a single disinformation campaign may have a specific objective — for instance, changing public opinion about a political...
NATO’s approach to countering disinformation: a focus on COVID-19
By NATO
Introduction
COVID-19 has affected almost every person in every NATO state. It is vital that this global health crisis does not turn into a...
I’ve been talking to conspiracy theorists for 20 years – here are my six...
By Jovan Byford, for The Conversation
With prospects of a COVID-19 vaccine looking up, attention is also turning to the problem of anti-vax ideas. According to a...
Fake: Americans Testing Coronavirus Vaccine on Ukraine’s Military
Russian news sites as well as sites from the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics featured stories this week claiming that Americans have begun...
One group that’s really benefitted from Covid-19: Anti-vaxxers
By Laura Hazard Owen, for NiemanLab
The growing stream of reporting on and data about fake news, misinformation, partisan content, and news literacy is hard to...