Fake News

Misinformation may be fueled by "wellness influencers", beginning with anti-vaccine information after COVID. After the pandemic, some influencers attempted to remain relevant by spreading climate misinformation to younger followers. The climate misinformation also includes mistrust of authorities…

Researchers have collected over 12,000 Youtube from 2018 to 2023 in an effort to track the spread of climate misinformation on the platform. The data was taken from 96 YouTube channels and analyzed by AI to categorize the videos as "old" or "new" denial of climate change. The report published found…

The World Economic Forum has declared artificial intelligence misinformation the biggest threat to the global economy. The forum stated in its 2024 report that including climate change and extreme weather events, misinformation related to politics and elections pose a significant threat by…

A mobile game called Cranky Uncle, first released in 2020 and repurposed in order to combat climate change and vaccine misinformation, is being rolled out. The game teaches players how to identify various methods used to spread misinformation and the players then utilize the tools in order to…

Twitter has announced that they will stop flagging tweets and suspending twitter accounts for COVID-19 misinformation. Twitter previously had a COVID-19 specific “five-strike” system for accounts spreading"demonstrably false or misleading" content that could potentially "lead to significant risk of…

Social media platforms are full of fake news and misinformation that can cause serious consequences like mask rejection. Macaquarie University's development team has created a model of algorithm in pursuit to reduce the spread of fake news. The model identifies user's reading interests and shifts…

According to the Kaiser Family Foundation survey, 71% of unvaccinated respondents claim that booster shots are signs that vaccines are ineffective. The divide in attitude continues as it becomes clearer just how differently vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals view the pandemic. The split in…

With over 500,000 dead from the Coronavirus, it is critical to vaccinate as many people as possible in order to achieve herd immunity to prevent more deaths and to allow life to return to normal. As of today, 3 vaccines in the US (Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson) have been granted emergency…

The spread of coronavirus is undoubtedly intertwined with the spread of speculation around its origins. In the face of ambiguity and great uncertainty, the world turned to college professors with no evidence or training in virology and anonymous social media users, posing as high-level intelligence…

Facebook has banned the Myanmar military television network page following a military coup on Monday that put Gen. Min Aung Hliang in power. The situation is sensitive since Facebook failed to stop a  torrent of posts in 2018 encouraging genocide in Myanmar.  The company stated that they will be…

The journalists at CNN have found that President Trump has made at least 66 false or misleading claims from this past Friday to Sunday. These claims were primarily from his campaign's rally speeches in many states, including Florida, Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Nevada. The journalists outline…

To reduce the circulation of unfounded information from the far-right online movement, TikTok has imposed a crackdown where users who spread QAnon-related content will have their accounts deleted from the app. This action taken against the QAnon conspiracy theory has also been mirrored in newly…

QAnon is an online conspiracy cult that has been massively spreading across major social media platforms this past year. This "virtual cult" started off on the anonymous message board website, 4chan, releasing theories about Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. Election. Now, QAnon is a global…

Following the news that President Donald Trump contracted the coronavirus, his physician, Dr. Sean Conley, relayed a message to the public that the president's conditions were improving and that he no longer had a fever. However, not long after, the chief of staff of the President, Mark Meadows,…