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Disinformation Vaccines

March 24, 2024November 13, 2020 by Dave
Disinformation

What strategies can be adopted to successfully counter misinformation, is there an effective vaccine that will immunize you against the lies?

Categories Critical Thinking, fake news, Fake News, Skepticism, society Tags disinformation, prebunking, vaccines Leave a comment

Postal Voting – The Evidence

May 20, 2024October 29, 2020 by Dave
postal votes

Are claims of widespread fraud via postal voting credible? You really don’t need me to tell you this – No, Trump’s claim is BS.

Categories Fake News, politics, society Tags election, electoral fraud, politics, postal votes Leave a comment

QAnon Watch: 2 Oct Update – #QAnon

June 28, 2023October 2, 2020 by Dave
QAnon

QAnon Watch: 2 Oct – Notes on some further insights into the QAnon cult that have popped up during past week.

Categories conspiracy, Fake News, fake news, media, Mythology, nutters, Skepticism, society Tags conspiracy, QAnon Leave a comment

QAnon watch – a brief update

August 9, 2023September 25, 2020 by Dave
QAnon

QAnon Watch – Notes on some further insights into the QAnon cult that have popped up during past week. There has been some very good writing.

Categories conspiracy, Fake News, fake news, kooks, media, nutters, politics, religion, Skepticism, society Tags QAnon Leave a comment

Did Covid leak from a lab?

December 23, 2023September 17, 2020 by Dave
covid

Misleading Telegraph headline claims scientsts investigating covid leaking from a lab – that is not what is going on.

Categories Fake News, Health, media, Medicine, science, society Tags covid, COVID-19, Lancet covid19 commission, media Leave a comment

Facebook handling of Misinformation deliberately inept

December 7, 2020September 7, 2020 by Dave
facebook

Facebook and other social Media platforms have proven they do not care and listen only to advertisers and the threat of regulation. #TimeToAct

Categories consumer, Fake News, society Tags CCDH, Facebook, fake news, report Leave a comment
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