Tag: misinformation
Google is leading a vast, covert human experiment. You may be one of the guinea pigs
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On January 13 the Australian Financial Review reported Google had removed some Australian news content from its search results for some local users.
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Not sure about the Pfizer vaccine, now it’s been approved in Australia? You can scratch these 4 concerns straight off your list
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The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has yesterday provisionally approved Australia’s first COVID vaccine, the Pfizer vaccine, paving the way for its rollout to begin in mid-to-late...
Saturday Science Session: Facts_ Why they matter and how to check them – Part 1
The Logic of Science" style="3d" color="black"]Presents a series of grounded science based articles covering Evolution, Global Warming, Genetic Modified Organisms (GM's), Logic, Nature of...
3.2 billion images and 720,000 hours of video are shared online daily. Can you sort real from fake?
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Twitter over the weekend “tagged” as manipulated a video showing US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden supposedly forgetting which state he’s...
Now everyone’s a statistician. Here’s what armchair COVID experts are getting wrong
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If we don’t analyse statistics for a living, it’s easy to be taken in by misinformation about COVID-19 statistics on social media,...
Coronavirus anti-vaxxers aren’t a huge threat yet. How do we keep it that way?
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The first I heard of the “Plandemic” video was when a friend shared it on her Facebook. “I’m pro-vaccine,” was her accompanying...