The thing about election denialism is it's not just a set of false beliefs — it's also a set of practices. And those practices include things like not certifying elections, trying to decertify elections, refusing to hand over election equipment, refusing to cooperate with routine audits.
In the entire film, I wanted to focus on just two things: One, Facebook's role in the rise of extremism and divisiveness, which includes, two, their unwillingness to fact-check political ads.
I think the legacy media is not equipped to deal with um uh a politics where just like one side is just like wrong like one side is just like saying things that are preposterously untrue.
The more siloed we are when it comes to science and policy, the more opportunity there is for really dangerous mistruths and false claims and conspiracies to fill that gap.
What I really wanted to figure out was this. How did a recent University of Chicago graduate create so many newsfocused accounts in such a short amount of time that continued to go viral? Who are the people watching these videos millions and millions of times? And what does it mean for our information economy, for the midterms, for the presidential elections that people were seemingly unknowingly consuming this content that was being created by people who were paid actors.
It wasn't that he was just reluctant to get himself vaccines or to get his future children vaccinated. It was that he had questions, concerns, misinformation buried deep down for which he needed an expert like myself to answer without scorn and without judgment.
It wasn't that he was just reluctant to get his self vaccines or to get his future children vaccinated. It was that he had questions, concerns, misinformation buried deep down for which he needed an expert like myself to answer without scorn and without judgment.
It wasn't that he was just reluctant to get himself vaccines or to get his future children vaccinated. It was that he had questions, concerns, misinformation buried deep down, for which he needed an expert like myself to answer without scorn and without judgment.
Scary stories sell They always have And the more often you hear something the more likely you are to believe that it's true And scary stories are really easy to sell to parents We are an anxious lot
The claims of persecution behind this refugee program are based on this wildly debunked far-right conspiracy about South Africa. That white farmers are being killed by gangs of black South Africans and that their land is being seized by the government.
The feeds on Instagram are often driven by algorithms and what you search. So here I am, I've been a physician for 20-plus years, I know the data on statins, and I'm starting to think maybe I don't need a statin. And then I'm getting more doctors' feeds that are saying you don't need to be on a statin.
Amid the barrage of messages and misinformation swirling online and on Capitol Hill, about what damage U.S. military sites incurred during the conflict with Iran, a Times analysis of satellite imagery shows 18 sites in seven countries were hit.
