misinformation

“Fake news” has gone from a hot buzzword popularized during the 2016 presidential campaign to an ever-present phenomenon known more formally as misinformation or disinformation.Whatever you call it, sowing FUD — fear, uncertainty and doubt…

Dr. Daniel Stock, a state doctor, made a litany of false claims about the coronavirus in front of a local school board in central Indiana this month. He announced that the recent surge in cases had shown that the vaccines were…

In the past few weeks, the vast majority of the most highly engaged social media posts containing coronavirus misinformation were from people who had risen to prominence by questioning the vaccines in the past year.In July, the right-wing…

One radio show that appears to have been part of this effect is Coast to Coast AM, which airs on 640 local stations and reaches nearly three million listeners a week. His host, George Noory, has had Dr. Tenpenny interviewed Robert Kennedy…

For the past ten years, Dr. Mercola built a huge company to promote natural health regimens, spread and benefit from anti-vaccination content, said researchers who studied its network. In 2017, he filed an affidavit claiming his net worth…

SAN FRANCISCO - Twitter announced Monday that Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene would be suspended from her duty for 12 hours after posting news that violated her policy on disclosing misleading information about the coronavirus.Ms.…

"The suggestion that we did not allocate resources to combat Covid misinformation and aid vaccine roll-out is simply not supported by the facts," said Dani Lever, a Facebook spokeswoman. “With no standard definition of vaccine…

Facebook on Saturday refuted statements by President Joe Biden that social media platforms "kill people" by allowing misinformation about coronavirus vaccines on their services, arguing that vaccine adoption has indeed increased among its…

Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, founding director of the Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases at Boston University, told CNBC that from a medical standpoint, she agrees with President Joe Biden's claim that platforms like Facebook are killing…

President Biden's surgeon general used his first formal piece of advice to the United States on Thursday to deliver a broadside against tech and social media companies that he accused of not doing enough to spread dangerous health…