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Disinformation in Spain, Heidi Larson, Social Media and EU Vaccine Hesitancy: Our (first ever!) Quarterly Press Review -Episode 9
Disinformation in Spain, Heidi Larson, Social Media and EU Vaccine Hesitancy: Our (first ever!) Quarterly Press Review
The Inoculation Episode 8 - Russian Vaccine Disinformation and the Collapse of Slovakia's Government
An elaborate media network promotes Russia’s Sputnik vaccine. But what happens when an EU country decides to use Sputnik?
The Inoculation Episode 7 - On the Fence/ Co-production with Are We Europe
In this collaborative episode between Are We Europe and The Inoculation, we look into how parents find their way with so much confusing information online, and what approach to vaccine hesitancy works.
The Inoculation Episode 6 - Sputnik vs. the West
In this episode, we took a look at how the Russian government and its media networks used their power and reach to discredit Covid vaccines made by Western companies and how it boosted its own Sputnik V Covid jab -- and how this might backfire. Experts say that attributing anonymous
The Inoculation Episode 5 - Disinformation, Misinformation, Propaganda: What’s the Difference?
Disinformation, misinformation, propaganda: While reading the transcript of a an interview with a disinformation researcher,
The Inoculation Episode 4 - Who spreads misinformation and why
Daiva and Eva talk to Dr Aliaksandr Herasimenka, a postdoctoral researcher at the Computational Propaganda Project at the Oxford Internet Institute.
The Inoculation Episode 3 - Vaccine communication — how to avoid common mistakes
After a series of delivery hiccups and reports of some frontliners not showing up for their jabs, Europe - and other regions - tensely awaited the European Medicines Agency's assessment [https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/covid-19-vaccine-astrazeneca-benefits-still-outweigh-risks-despite-possible-link-rare-blood-clots] on the safety of the AstraZeneca vaccine. Its rollout was
The Inoculation Episode 2 - Countering misinformation in Slovakia
The Inoculation's team has lately been looking into misinformation. Together with colleagues in Latvia and Estonia, we investigated misinformation in the Baltic States for a story published in Re:Baltica [https://en.rebaltica.lv/2021/02/who-spreads-the-vaccine-lies-in-the-baltics/]. In this episode of our podcast, we look at how authorities
The Inoculation Episode 1 - Estimating the size of anti-vaccination movements
Are 'vaccine hesitancy', 'vaccine skepticism' and 'anti-vaccination sentiment' synonyms? Do people who say they doubt vaccine safety always refuse vaccines? In this episode Eva and Daiva discuss the challenges researchers face when trying to estimate the size of the anti-vaccination movement and the number