⚡It's not Propaganda, it's Ampliganda⚡, Americans Worry about Disinformation: Inoculated Newsletter (14.10.2021)
It's not Propaganda, it's Ampliganda, Americans Worry about Disinformation, Inoculated Newsletter (14.10.2021)
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📰News of the week:
- Do we need a new term to describe misinformation? How about ampliganda?
2. In the UK, anti-vax protesters live-streamed themselves outside school gates claiming the covid jab causes cancer, infertility and death, Schools Week says.
3. In spaces where expectant mothers seek fellowship online, panic, frustration, and the predatory nature of anti-vaccine rhetoric are stark, the Sword and the Sandwich newsletter reports.
4. A survey finds that three-quarters of Americans worry at least somewhat that they have been exposed to misinformation, but only about half are similarly concerned that they’ve spread misinformation, even unintentionally.
5. ‘I hope you die’: how the COVID pandemic unleashed attacks on scientists, Nature reports.
6. Google announced a new policy Thursday prohibiting the monetization of content that contradicts the scientific consensus on climate change, according to The Hill. Is Disinformation next?
⬆️ Re-up of the week:
Peter Pomerantsev
🎁Bonus read of the week:
Ashley May, USA TODAY
📝 Opinion of the week:
NYT: What Is Facebook Worth to Us?
📲Tweets of the week:
Hello everybody! Your friendly neighborhood debunkers -- that's us -- just wanted to remind everyone again that weaponized disheartenment is a form of disinformation, and when it's being pre-emptively leveled at our institutions everyone should side-eye the people pushing it.
— Brooke Binkowski (@brooklynmarie) October 8, 2021
Has anyone called out @amazon on the proliferation of conspiracy theories in their book section? If you search for almost any topic that's surrounded by conspiracies, Amazon gives you very conspirational stuff in its top results. Screenshots on covid-19 and 9/11 here + more in 🧵 pic.twitter.com/mA7e8jIC9I
— Aleksandra Urman (@AUrman21) October 12, 2021
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