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In 2020, as the Covid-19 pandemic rampaged across the globe, the World Health Organization declared that we had plunged into a second, simultaneous catastrophe: an infodemic. This global crisis was characterized by the rapid spread of false information, or misinformation, mostly in digital spaces. The fear was that such inaccuracies would leave the public unmoored, …

Removing cancer treatment misinformation When cancer patients and their loved ones are faced with a diagnosis, they often turn to online spaces to research symptoms, learn about treatment journeys, and find community. Our mission is to make sure that when they turn to YouTube, they can easily find high-quality content from credible health sources. In …

This article first appeared in the “4 Our Future” Newsletter. To sign up, click here — or use the sign up form at the bottom of this article. We do not live in a world of hate — but these days, it certainly feels that way. It’s impossible to go one day without seeing or …

WYCKOFF, N.J. (WCBS 880) — A New Jersey teenager has created her own website to set the record straight when it comes to living a healthy lifestyle. Ove a year ago, Indian Hills High School junior Valeri Guevarra made a New Year’s resolution to be healthier. To start her journey, she consulted the internet, where …

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey will emphasize the company’s newest initiatives for battling misinformation and the need to build trust with users during his testimony before Congress. It’s the executive’s fifth time testifying, including his November appearance in the wake of the 2020 election. That time, Dorsey eventually got around to defending the company’s efficacy in …

Members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee are expected to press Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey about their platforms’ efforts to stem baseless election fraud claims and vaccine skepticism. Opaque algorithms that prioritize user engagement and promote misinformation could also come under scrutiny, a committee memo …

The vaccines authorized for emergency use do not contain the live virus that causes COVID-19, so it cannot make you sick with COVID-19. The vaccines are made with mRNA technology which works by teaching your immune system how to recognize and fight the virus that causes COVID-19.  Sometimes when this happens, the process can cause symptoms …

The news: Facebook announced on Tuesday that it will remove “any Facebook Pages, Groups and Instagram accounts representing QAnon, even if they contain no violent content.” QAnon, the pro-Trump conspiracy theory centering on the belief that the president of the United States is at war with a secret satanic pedophile ring run by liberals, has …

Actor Martin Balsam plays a traveling snake oil salesman in the 1970 movie, “Little Big Man” CBS Photo Archive/Getty With more people than ever turning to the internet as their primary news source, and companies such as Facebook doing so little to curate its content, misinformation is flourishing. As Carl Bergstrom, a University of Washington researcher …

Facebook will begin showing notifications to users who have interacted with posts that contain “harmful” coronavirus misinformation, the company announced on Thursday, in an aggressive new move to address the spread of false information about Covid-19. The new policy applies only to misinformation that Facebook considers likely to contribute to “imminent physical harm”, such as …