Oh Facebook, Don't Be Like That; Was Colin Powell's Death Weaponized by Anti-Vaxxers?: Inoculated Newsletter (21.10.2021)

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📰News of the week:

1. Was Colin Powell's death weaponized by anti-vaxxers?
2. Oh Facebook, how many times are you going to mislead us? You said you were going to remove all the disinformation, this report says you didn't.
3. Does Germany have a novel plan to combat disinformation?
4. A massive, US-based disinformation network profiled in a recent Ars Technica feature, was run by Mike Adams, who goes by "the Health Ranger" at the site NaturalNews.com.

⬆️ Re-up of the week (nature, 2018)

The biggest pandemic risk? Viral misinformation

A century after the world’s worst flu epidemic, rapid spread of misinformation is undermining trust in vaccines crucial to public health, warns Heidi Larson.

NatureHeidi J. Larson

📝 Longform of the week:

A Data Sleuth Challenged A Powerful COVID Scientist. Then He Came After Her.

Elisabeth Bik calls out bad science for a living. A feud with one of the world’s loudest hydroxychloroquine crusaders shows that it can carry a high price.

BuzzFeed NewsStephanie M. Lee

🎁Bonus read of the week:

The dark side of wellness: the overlap between spiritual thinking and far-right conspiracies | Health & wellbeing | The Guardian

Extreme right-wing views and the wellness community are not an obvious pairing, but ‘conspirituality’ is increasingly pervasive. How did it all become so toxic? By Eva Wiseman

The Guardian

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