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Toxic Twitter - a toxic place for women amnesty.org/en/latest/resear…
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When supply outweighs demand: how to maintain vaccine demand google.co.uk/amp/s/www.theve…
"We found the use of social media to organise offline action to be highly predictive of the belief that vaccinations are unsafe, with such beliefs mounting as more organisation occurs on social media."
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"In addition, the prevalence of foreign disinformation is highly statistically and substantively significant in predicting a drop in mean vaccination coverage over time."
Did you know that you can spot a Twitter bot by its behavior? (Taken from the Knight Foundation) (1/6)
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Many still believe that fake news is spread by thousands of small, independent sites. Yet fake and conspiracy news is highly concentrated. Just a few large fake news outlets or big conspiracy sites received most links to questionable content. (5/6)
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Disinformation on social media comes overwhelmingly from a couple dozen popular conspiracy sites. In the study, 79.3% of the tweets that link to fake and conspiracy news are concentrated on just 24 outlets. (6/6)
Human vs automated activity on Twitter.
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New mask guidance from the CDC. These exceptions: "All travelers are required to wear a mask on all planes, buses, trains, and other forms of public transportation" and in health care settings, correctional facilities and homeless shelters. bit.ly/3xuQXvN
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This is so important: "[Disinformation] spreaders omit key context or details and hope readers will have an emotional reaction without thinking too hard about the veracity of what they’re reading."
Women come to moms’ groups for the reassuring memes about how hard and lonely parenting can be, and they stay for the righteous indignation about the government presuming that it knows what’s best for their families. motherjones.com/politics/202…