#Disinformation

Rep. Eric Swalwell

RepSwalwell

You know what kind of man @TuckerCarlson is? (THREAD). After protestors vandalized his house a few years ago, I tweeted that was wrong. I took heat. Didn’t care — that

Seth Abramson

SethAbramson

(THREAD) In just 90 minutes on Tuesday, the media broadcast more disinformation about COVID-19 and a host of other topics—by putting Trump on-air live—than the Proof trilogy could dispel in

K. Taylor, Ph.D., M.S. #BlackInMicro Week

KYT_ThatsME

When I first decided to start #BlackInMicro Week, I mostly just wanted to see other virologists and keke with my friends. But as I really sat down to think about

Bryan MacDonald

27khv

This tweet, which has been shared 8,500 times + (and counting) is basically disinformation. The data is freely available online & has been for months. You can search it yourself

HaiTao Yang

HaiTaoYang9

When a video of schools in China was labeled Japan: 1.2M views + 10K likesWhen someone said it was actually China: 400K views + 1K likes + 100K hate comments.Best

Mac Sloth

macsloth

Dear .@CNN Of course, I don't expect my opinion to matter to a major network, but here goes anyway. I don't think I'm alone when I say that the entire

christie

yeetismurder

it is so frightening that people with an initially good-natured concern for abuse victims are being sucked into believing hyperbolic far-right conspiracists due to the fact that truth is being

Dr. Ken Milne - EBM and Rural

TheSGEM

For my #foamed friends who do #SciComm “Scientists and physicians must be at the vanguard of the pushback against these dangerous falsehoods—our societal well-being depends on it.”https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/10/7/e035626#T2 Not a

PRGuy

PRGuy17

Fascinating #MediaWatch tonight about the bots and trolls artificially driving up anti-Andrews sentiment (#DictatorDan) on social media. If you missed it, please watch it. Gives a great understanding of why

Patrick Hurley

patrick_hurley

On Monday, I set up a consortium of charities and social enterprises to run a campaign against disinformation, frauds and conspiracy theories around coronavirus.Earlier today, it was refused funding.https://twitter.com/jimwaterson/status/124614632461

richard horton

richardhorton1

Just for the record: the UK government is deliberately rewriting history in its ongoing COVID-19 disinformation campaign. My Jan 24 tweet called for caution in UK media reporting. It was

Aaron Maté

aaronjmate

Russiagate disinformation isn't just paranoid & deranged, it's racist. Here @DanaBashCNN asks @AdamSchiff whether "Russia is trying to fuel" Black Lives Matter protests. Schiff responds that Russia "exploited"

Marianna Spring

mariannaspring

NEW Trump alleged "fraud" even while votes were still being counted - the culmination of a strategy months in the making.Voting disinformation spread online from April - and conspiracies

Will Wilkinson 🌐

willwilkinson

This thought is both tired and exhausting, but ... before 2015, never in my wildest dystopian flights of fancy would I have imagined it possible that we'd ever have a

Dena Grayson, MD, PhD

DrDenaGrayson

BREAKING: US intel warned the WH last year that Rudy Giuliani was the target of a #Russianintelligence influence op to smear @JoeBiden.SIGINT revealed that *Giuliani interacted with #Russian intelligence* during

Michael McFaul

McFaul

So what happens in November if Trump claims that "Chinese disinformation" or "Chinese Communist Party hacking" caused him to lose a few swing states & he wont therefore recognize the