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Bruce Mirken
@BruceMirken@mas.to  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

My friend @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social was about to adopt her first child when she came across a website with scary statements about #vaccines. She was frightened, but she's also an epidemiologist, so she knew what to do. Please read her story: https://www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/anti-vaccine-misinformation-can-terrorize-new-parents-science-leads-truth
#science #vaccination #disinformation
Bruce Mirken
@BruceMirken@mas.to  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

My friend @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social was about to adopt her first child when she came across a website with scary statements about #vaccines. She was frightened, but she's also an epidemiologist, so she knew what to do. Please read her story: https://www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/anti-vaccine-misinformation-can-terrorize-new-parents-science-leads-truth
#science #vaccination #disinformation
William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

"A pro-Russian propaganda group is taking advantage of high-profile news events to spread disinformation, and it’s spoofing reputable organizations — including news outlets, nonprofits and government agencies — to do so."

~ Dana Nickel

N.B. My linking to any platform does not constitute an endorsement of that platform.

#Putin#Trump#Zelensky #Russia #Ukraine #disinformation
/16

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/17/russia-us-news-media-disinformation-campaign-00512173
William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

"According to misinformation tracker NewsGuard, the campaign — which has been tracked by Microsoft’s Threat Analysis Center as Storm-1679 since at least 2022 — takes advantage of high-profile events to pump out fabricated content from various publications, including ABC News, BBC and most recently POLITICO."

#Putin#Trump#Zelensky #Russia #Ukraine #disinformation
/17
William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Not unrelated to the Putin-Trump show of dominance (P) and submission (T): as kos reminds us,

"There is a genre of MAGA conservative so right wing, so brain dead, that they go through the immense hassle of moving themselves and their family to Russia—where gay and transgender people supposedly don’t exist, and … well, that appears to be the bulk of the motivation for fleeing."

#Putin#Trump#Zelensky #Russia #Ukraine
/15

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/8/18/2337788/-Meet-the-MAGA-Americans-who-moved-to-Russia-to-hilarious-results
William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

"A pro-Russian propaganda group is taking advantage of high-profile news events to spread disinformation, and it’s spoofing reputable organizations — including news outlets, nonprofits and government agencies — to do so."

~ Dana Nickel

N.B. My linking to any platform does not constitute an endorsement of that platform.

#Putin#Trump#Zelensky #Russia #Ukraine #disinformation
/16

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/17/russia-us-news-media-disinformation-campaign-00512173
Amir Khan
@amirbkhan@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

I published a new piece:
How the Powerful Use Doubt to Avoid Accountability

Uncertainty isn’t always organic. It’s often engineered.

From Big Tobacco, Surveillance Capitalism to Genocide in Gaza, the tactic is the same: Sow fear, doubt & confusion to protect power and profit.

Read more 👇
🔗 https://mangotek.eu/posts/the-playbook-of-doubt/

🎧 Inspired after listening to HumaneTech_'s podcast with Naomi Oreskes 👇
https://www.humanetech.com/podcast/weaponizing-uncertainty-how-tech-is-recycling-big-tobaccos-playbook

#Disinformation#SurveillanceCapitalism#Palestine#StopGenocide
Amir Khan
@amirbkhan@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

I published a new piece:
How the Powerful Use Doubt to Avoid Accountability

Uncertainty isn’t always organic. It’s often engineered.

From Big Tobacco, Surveillance Capitalism to Genocide in Gaza, the tactic is the same: Sow fear, doubt & confusion to protect power and profit.

Read more 👇
🔗 https://mangotek.eu/posts/the-playbook-of-doubt/

🎧 Inspired after listening to HumaneTech_'s podcast with Naomi Oreskes 👇
https://www.humanetech.com/podcast/weaponizing-uncertainty-how-tech-is-recycling-big-tobaccos-playbook

#Disinformation#SurveillanceCapitalism#Palestine#StopGenocide

Ulrike Hahn
Tim Chambers
Ulrike Hahn and 1 other boosted
DW Innovation
@dw_innovation@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

NewsGuard, a company that aims to help identify reliable news sources, has stopped using the labels 'misinformation' and 'disinformation' as they were politicized and partisan. They now explain whether a claim is '[...] explicitly false, AI-generated, unsubstantiated or manipulated'.

What do you think?

By Sophie Culpepper for @niemanlab.

👇
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/language-that-once-clarified-is-now-obscuring-newsguard-retires-the-labels-misinformation-and-disinformation/

#Misinformation#Disinformation
DW Innovation
@dw_innovation@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

NewsGuard, a company that aims to help identify reliable news sources, has stopped using the labels 'misinformation' and 'disinformation' as they were politicized and partisan. They now explain whether a claim is '[...] explicitly false, AI-generated, unsubstantiated or manipulated'.

What do you think?

By Sophie Culpepper for @niemanlab.

👇
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/language-that-once-clarified-is-now-obscuring-newsguard-retires-the-labels-misinformation-and-disinformation/

#Misinformation#Disinformation
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp last month

Such situations have prompted some former #judges to do something most generally do not—speak out. More than two dozen retired judges appointed by Republican & Democratic presidents have formed the #ArticleIII Coalition to push back on attacks & #disinformation about the #courts.

#Trump #law #judiciary#Constitution #democracy#SeparationOfPowers#Autocracy#AbuseOfPower
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp last month

Such situations have prompted some former #judges to do something most generally do not—speak out. More than two dozen retired judges appointed by Republican & Democratic presidents have formed the #ArticleIII Coalition to push back on attacks & #disinformation about the #courts.

#Trump #law #judiciary#Constitution #democracy#SeparationOfPowers#Autocracy#AbuseOfPower

Neville Park
Alex, the Hearth Fire
Neville Park and 1 other boosted
Cassian [main]
@cassolotl@eldritch.cafe  ·  activity timestamp last month

"A mere 0.1% of users share 80% of fake news. Twelve accounts – known as the “disinformation dozen” – created most of the vaccine misinformation on Facebook during the pandemic. These few hyperactive users produced enough content to create the false perceptions that many people were vaccine hesitant."

"Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us?", The Guardian, Sun 13 Jul 2025
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jul/13/are-a-few-people-ruining-the-internet-for-the-rest-of-us

Archive link: https://archive.ph/Eu57Y

#misinformation #disinformation #COVID19
Cassian [main]
@cassolotl@eldritch.cafe  ·  activity timestamp last month

"A mere 0.1% of users share 80% of fake news. Twelve accounts – known as the “disinformation dozen” – created most of the vaccine misinformation on Facebook during the pandemic. These few hyperactive users produced enough content to create the false perceptions that many people were vaccine hesitant."

"Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us?", The Guardian, Sun 13 Jul 2025
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jul/13/are-a-few-people-ruining-the-internet-for-the-rest-of-us

Archive link: https://archive.ph/Eu57Y

#misinformation #disinformation #COVID19