#Infodemic

Andreas Schleicher

SchleicherOECD

Disinformation, fake news and literacy skills – A threadWe’ve just released a #OECDPISA report on digital literacy skillsAs we tackle #COVID disinformation, the “infodemic”, here’s what this report tells

World Health Organization (WHO)

WHO

We are all being exposed to a huge amount of #COVID19 information on a daily basis, and not all of it is reliable.Here are tips for telling the

Bloomberg Opinion

bopinion

For most people, a vaccine against the coronavirus can’t come soon enough. So it’s encouraging that there are:100 vaccine candidates in 12 countries8 already in clinical trialsYet there’s still a

Shephali Bhatt

ShephaliBhatt

Creating a thread on all the Covid- and Lockdown-related stories I've done (so far), chronicling the pandemic's impact on Consumer Tech & Culture. 1. Rise of Data Influencershttps://twitter.com/ShephaliBhatt/status/1246660196492

A.M.

bhalomanush

Every media outlet is doing a best-of-list of books of 2020. It's a shame that few of them include even a SINGLE popular-science book (and NY Times has only one

lib in the time of corona

baiocchimatthew

1/ jumping to the meat of the argument: libraries can be essential without being considered first responders. libraries are nothing without their library staff.think of it like a day at

World Health Organization (WHO)

WHO

Media briefing on #COVID19 with @DrTedros. #coronavirus https://www.pscp.tv/w/cVyXJzI2MTAyMHwxeW9LTWFNWXpNbEtR6VNSbyrH4YTMWuKjXbyd-clEpeDN2KxaVqDKzI4E3YY= "Tomorrow marks 100 days since WHO was notified of the first cases of “pneumonia with unkn

Dr. Tara C. Smith

aetiology

I wrote about the pending epidemic in rural America back in May. I think it's safe to say it's now here; a thread.https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2020-05-06/pandemic-will-soon-test-rural-america An enormous chu

Livia Gerber

GerberLiv

Time to Zoom! On now: Distinguished Prof Ingrid Piller @Lg_on_the_Move presents on the latest #Multilingua Special Issue:"Linguistic diversity in a time of crisis: #Language challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic" -

Harriet Allner 💸📚✨

TheScribbleBug

Attended a super interesting webinar today all about "pandemic culture" - looking at the impact of social isolation, the role of 24/7 media coverage, what brands can do and what

Lucas Graves

gravesmatter

Thread: This informative @wired piece has a good take (but see below!) on Twitter's unexpected fact-check of Trump's one-bazillionth misleading tweet: basically, kudos for a gutsy move but "the execution

Malex

markpalexander

From calling crash out Brexit an Australia deal to faked videos of victims in protests we are all exposed and influenced by misinformation much more than we realise. We need

#FightBack Forbidden Knowledge TV ⭐⭐⭐

FKTVis

D4: DENY, DEGRADE, DISRUPT, DECEIVE => D5 IS DESTROY"The company that funded all of this misinformation - that same company had also paid $100 million to all those people we

Pauli Ohukainen, PhD

POhukainen

Kuten on nyt hyvin tiedossa, Venäjän suunnalta on odotettavissa kiukuttelua. Yksi näkökulma on mahdollinen #informaatiovaikuttaminen, mutta sen tarkempi käsitteellistäminen ja laadullinen tarkastelu on jäänyt vähemmälle. Se on sii

Alexander Samuel

AlexSamTG

Voici un thread sur les effets des fausses informations en période de pandémie, avec une petite revue rapide des études que j'ai pu trouver à ce sujet. Il est un

Melissa Ryan

MelissaRyan

New from me. And it's important. Conspiracies like Plandemic endanger healthcare workers. Here's how.https://medium.com/@melissaryan/how-plandemic-endangers-healthcare-workers-982dce6676f7 By now you've probably seen the Plandemic video o