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Covid - Misinformation is death World Wide WTF?
From: Jenifer (Zarknorph)
9/4/20
Fact Check
How 'freedom day' protesters have been using misleading archival images to further their cause
Anti-lockdown advocates have been planning a protest for this weekend, using images of packed streets which they say are of a similar recent protest in Berlin. But fact checkers have found them to be sometimes decades old images from the internet.
Read more from www.abc.net.au- Edited September 4, 2020 2:48 am by Jenifer (Zarknorph)
From: Jenifer (Zarknorph)
9/14/20
Analysis - Fact Check
Five coronavirus statistics 'armchair experts' keep getting wrong
It's easy to be taken in by misinformation about COVID-19 statistics on social media, especially if we don't have the right context, writes Jacques Raubenheimer.
Read more from www.abc.net.auFrom: Jenifer (Zarknorph)
1/19/21
Florida COVID-19 whistleblower turns herself in on felony computer charge
A former Florida public health whistleblower who says she was fired because she refused to manipulate COVID-19 data turned herself in to face a felony computer offense and was released on bail on Monday, Florida officials and media said.
Read more from U.S.From: Jenifer (Zarknorph)
1/24/21
Sri Lanka's health minister who drank 'magic potion' to fight COVID-19 tests positive
Pavithra Wanniarachchi, who promoted an unscientific 'COVID syrup' as a life-long inoculation against the virus, tests positive for coronavirus.
Read more from www.abc.net.auFrom: Jenifer (Zarknorph)
1/27/21
bml00 said:Ms WANNASCRATCHIT
I laughed at that... aw crap, I'm a racist!
From: Jenifer (Zarknorph)
3/2/21
Five strikes and you're out: Twitter clamps down on COVID-19 misinformation
Twitter will apply warnings to tweets that contain misleading information about COVID-19 vaccines and implement a strike system that could see users permanently banned for repeat violations.
Read more from www.abc.net.auFrom: Jenifer (Zarknorph)
3/5/21
'Completely untrue': Experts debunk misinformation that mRNA vaccines 'genetically modify' humans
Misinformation around the COVID-19 vaccine is being shared on Chinese social media and within non-English speaking communities. But how seriously are they taking these claims?
Read more from www.abc.net.auFrom: 8645 (RedBV)
3/5/21
An example of some of the nutty stuff that some folks try ta pass off . . . personally think many of the originators know it is bunk . . . but do so to activate the gullible ta spread the junk . . .