Querdenker, Fake Debunking, Epoch Times: Inoculated Newsletter (17.3.2022)
📰News:
- Coda Story takes a look at the Epoch Times, the purveyor of Trumpian misinformation and anti-science conspiracies that already gained traction in Germany eyes expansion in the UK.
- Long Lead has a fantastic investigation into Querdenker, COVID-skeptics resisting Germany’s public health measures stormed the Reichstag.
- ProPublica reports that social media posts debunking purported Ukrainian disinformation are themselves fake. That doesn’t stop them from being featured on Russian state TV.
- Anti-vaccination movements are as old as vaccination itself, and Vox gives us an overview.
🎁Bonus:
Silicon Valley enabled Russian state propaganda. Now it’s too late.
There are steps Facebook and YouTube could have taken to limit RT and Sputnik’s reach years ago. They didn’t.
Issie Lapowsky
🔬Research:
Prebunking messaging to inoculate against COVID-19 vaccine misinformation: an effective strategy for public health
(2022). Prebunking messaging to inoculate against COVID-19 vaccine misinformation: an effective strategy for public health. Journal of Communication in Healthcare. Ahead of Print.
TikTok, the War on Ukraine, and 10 Features That Make the App Vulnerable to Misinformation
📲Tweet:
Reminder: Russian disinformation is like Mad Libs - the narrative template stays the same, but is updated for current context & Kremlin objectives. Russia's disinfo system is at max speed right now, Phase "Throw everything at the wall." Firehose of Falsehoods
— Clint Watts (@selectedwisdom) March 7, 2022
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