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Covid - Misinformation is death World Wide WTF?
From: Jenifer (Zarknorph)
8/21/20
Fact checking
Why you shouldn't believe what anti-vaxxers say about death certificates and COVID-19
Anti-vaxxers have been using official advice from the WA Coroner's Court on assuming the cause of death as COVID-19 as evidence the death rate for the disease is being overstated. But experts point out this is normal practice in line with other causes of death.
Read more from www.abc.net.auFrom: 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.
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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.
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