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News Articles: misinformation

Activists attending a meeting of the Chatham County Election Board call for replacing voting machines with paper ballots, Monday, July 10, 2023. (Craig Nelson)

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  • Politics

Unplug Chatham County’s voting machines, activists demand

In a sign of tumult to come in next year’s elections in Georgia, more than a dozen Chatham County voters took the lectern at a board of elections meeting to demand it scrap the county’s voting machines.

July 11, 2023
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By:
  • Craig Nelson
Under Twitter CEO Elon Musk, the company has stopped its previous practice of limiting the spread of tweets from Russian, Chinese and Iranian government media accounts.

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  • Business

Twitter once muzzled Russian and Chinese state propaganda. That's over now

The company used "visibility filtering rules" in order to curtail propaganda and misinformation. Under Elon Musk, those guidelines have been discarded.

April 24, 2023
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By:
  • Dara Kerr
La información falsa dirigida a la comunidad latina está creciendo.

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  • Health

Médicos y defensores denuncian un aumento de la desinformación sobre el aborto

La información falsa dirigida a la comunidad latina está creciendo. Gran parte de ella está diseñada para impulsar a los votantes o desalentar a las mujeres embarazadas a buscar atención medica.

November 29, 2022
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By:
  • Maria Godoy
Misinformation about abortion targeting Latinas is spreading online.

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  • Health

Doctors and advocates tackle a spike of abortion misinformation – in Spanish

False information targeting the Latino community is surging. Much of it is designed to galvanize voters or discourage pregnant women from seeking care.

November 03, 2022
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By:
  • Maria Godoy
Ivermectin has developed an enormous following over the course of the pandemic – in part because of a small cadre of fringe doctors who promote it as an alternative to COVID vaccines, despite early studies which didn't support it as a treatment.

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  • Health

Doubting mainstream medicine, COVID patients find dangerous advice and pills online

A 75-year-old woman became enmeshed in conspiracy theories about COVID. After she got infected, she rejected effective treatments and sought out black market drugs instead.

July 19, 2022
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By:
  • Geoff Brumfiel
Twitter is the latest social platform to grapple with the misinformation, propaganda and rumors that have proliferated since Russia invaded Ukraine

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  • Technology

Twitter aims to crack down on misinformation, including misleading posts about Ukraine

Twitter is stepping up its fight against misinformation with a new policy cracking down on posts that spread potentially dangerous false stories.

May 19, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Georgia State Capitol

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  • News

A mental health bill in Georgia shows how conspiracy theories are affecting politics

In a time where Democrats and Republicans don't agree on much, the issue of mental health reform was top of mind when Georgia lawmakers crafted a bill that had the backing of experts, advocates and both political parties. But opposition born of disinformation nearly derailed it.

April 21, 2022
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By:
  • Stephen Fowler
A new report from a watchdog group finds that the platform only labeled about half of the posts promoting articles from the world's main publishers of climate denial.

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  • Climate

Facebook fell short of its promises to label climate change denial, a study finds

A watchdog group says Facebook only labeled about half of posts promoting articles from the world's main publishers of climate denial. Facebook says it was still rolling out its system at the time.

February 24, 2022
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Joe Rogan, the comedian, TV commentator and podcaster, reacts during an Ultimate Fighting Championship event in May 2020.

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  • Technology

What the Joe Rogan podcast controversy says about the online misinformation ecosystem

More than a thousand health professionals are calling on Spotify to crack down on COVID-19 falsehoods aired on the podcast of the company's most popular host.

January 21, 2022
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By:
  • Shannon Bond
People line up to receive a rapid COVID-19 test in an agricultural community in Immokalee, Fla., where the poverty rate is over 40%. Partners in Health is working with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers to test, educate and vaccinate the community during the pandemic.

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  • Global Health

Rich nation, unequal health care: Why a charity that's helped Haiti is aiding the U.S.

The charity Partners in Health aims to improve health services in lower income places like Haiti and Rwanda. Now it's setting up a permanent presence in the U.S. with an $11 million federal grant.

December 18, 2021
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By:
  • Maria Godoy
Dr. Lee Merritt is a orthopedic and spinal surgeon who spreads misinformation about COVID-19. She is affiliated with a prominent right-wing group known as America's Frontline Doctors.

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  • Health

A doctor spread COVID misinformation and renewed her license with a mouse click

Lee Merritt is a back surgeon with a long history of spreading COVID misinformation. But she renewed her medical license last month.

November 04, 2021
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  • Geoff Brumfiel
Diana Callahan

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  • Health Care

How misinformation about vaccines is killing Georgians

Families across Georgia are navigating the COVID-19 pandemic. Some staunchly believe inaccurate information shared on social media. And they refuse to get vaccinated, even after surviving the disease. 

October 20, 2021
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
YouTube has announced immediate bans on false claims that vaccines are dangerous and cause health issues such as autism, cancer or infertility.

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  • Health

YouTube Is Banning All Content That Spreads Vaccine Misinformation

The site announced that videos that contain vaccine misinformation will be removed.

September 29, 2021
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By:
  • Sharon Pruitt-Young
Some leading Democratic lawmakers are accusing Amazon of profiting off the spread of COVID-19 and vaccine misinformation.

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  • Technology

An Anti-Vaccine Book Tops Amazon's COVID Search Results. Lawmakers Call Foul

Democratic lawmakers are pressing the e-commerce giant about what it's doing to stop its systems from recommending books and other products with falsehoods about the pandemic and vaccines.

September 09, 2021
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By:
  • Shannon Bond
Mayor Keisha Bottoms stands at a podium sharing the latest on COVID-19 and the COVID crime wave.

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  • News

Mayor Bottoms Addresses Crime and COVID-19 Crises

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms spoke in a press conference Tuesday morning about how COVID-19 is causing a spike in crime which the city hasn’t seen in decades, including a recent stabbing murder of a woman and her dog in Atlanta's Piedmont Park.

August 04, 2021
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By:
  • Amanda Andrews
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