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News Articles: misinformation

A KFF poll found parents who believed a false claim about measles were more likely to skip or delay childhood vaccinations.

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  • Health

Like measles, misinformation is spreading, poll finds

With the U.S. now reporting more than 800 measles cases, a new poll from health policy research group KFF finds that many people are being exposed to false claims about measles and the measles vaccine.

April 23, 2025
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  • Maria Godoy
Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State, listens as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol continues to reveal its findings of a year-long investigation, at the Capitol in Washington, June 21, 2022.

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  • News

US officials say video falsely depicting voter fraud in Georgia linked to ‘Russian influence actors’

A video that purports to show election fraud in Georgia by a man who claims to be from Haiti is fake and the work of “Russian influence actors,” U.S. intelligence officials said Friday.

November 01, 2024
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  • Associated Press
A voter fills out her ballot for the Michigan primary election in Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich., Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024.

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  • News

Election officials are fighting a tsunami of voting conspiracy theories

With less than two weeks before Election Day, a resurgence of misinformation and conspiracy theories about voting is forcing state and local election officials to spend their time debunking rumors and explaining how elections are run.

October 24, 2024
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  • Associated Press
Tesla Supercharging stations are seen in a parking lot on September 16, 2024 in Austin, Texas. Electric vehicles have significant environmental advantages over similar gas-powered vehicles, but the percentage of Americans who believe that has gone down slightly over the last two years.

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  • Business

EVs are cleaner than gas cars, but a growing share of Americans don't believe it

Electric vehicles are caught up in the culture wars. Data from Ipsos shows the percentage of Americans who believe EVs are better for the environment than gas cars has dropped 5 points since 2022.

September 23, 2024
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  • Camila Domonoske
Elon Musk says he will fight charges of violating Europe's Digital Services Act. Musk during a visit at the Vivatech technology startups and innovation fair in Paris, on June 16, 2023 and (R) the new Twitter logo rebranded as X, pictured on a screen in Paris on July 24, 2023.

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  • Business

EU takes Elon Musk's X to court over blue checks and ads

The European Union has charged Elon Musk’s X with violating new regulations for social media platforms. Musk faces hefty fines over delivering misinformation.

July 12, 2024
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  • Bobby Allyn

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  • Research News

How do you counter misinformation? Critical thinking is step one

An economic perspective on misinformation

April 30, 2024
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  • Greg Rosalsky
Supporters attend a campaign rally for Taiwan's main opposition party, Kuomintang, ahead of this month's presidential election, in Taipei on Dec. 23.

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  • World

Taiwan deals with lots of misinformation, and it's harder to track down

As Taiwan heads to an election, false information on social media has been picked up by TV networks — much of it appearing to originate from Taiwan itself.

January 11, 2024
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  • Emily Feng
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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Rachel Treisman
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