January 18, 2021 / Last updated : January 18, 2021 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

Washington Post: The Trump administration bailed out prominent anti-vaccine groups during a pandemic

Washington Post: The Trump administration bailed out prominent anti-vaccine groups during a pandemic. “Five prominent anti-vaccine organizations that have been known to spread misleading information about the coronavirus received more than $850,000 in loans from the federal Paycheck Protection Program, raising questions about why the government is giving money to groups actively opposing its agenda […]
January 11, 2021 / Last updated : January 11, 2021 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

New York Times: False Reports of a New ‘U.S. Variant’ Came From White House Task Force

New York Times: False Reports of a New ‘U.S. Variant’ Came From White House Task Force. “Reports of a highly contagious new coronavirus variant in the United States, published on Friday by multiple news outlets, are based on speculative statements made by Dr. Deborah Birx and are inaccurate, according to several government officials.”
January 4, 2021 / Last updated : January 4, 2021 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

Snopes: Viral Post ‘How To Fight Covid at Home’ Provides Problematic Advice

Snopes: Viral Post ‘How To Fight Covid at Home’ Provides Problematic Advice. “We refer to repeatedly copy-and-pasted text shared across multiple digital platforms as ‘copypasta’ — a sort of chain email for the social media age. Copypasta has been a major feature of the COVID-19 pandemic and the misinformation associated with it, often claiming to […]
December 15, 2020 / Last updated : December 15, 2020 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

Toronto Star: What I’ve learned countering vaccine disinformation on social media

Toronto Star: What I’ve learned countering vaccine disinformation on social media. “I got my rude awakening when I became a mother in 2017. Parenthood was an entirely new phenomenon, so I joined several online parenting or ‘mom’ groups on social media. These groups were my first encounter with sensational, provocative and unscientific information. This is […]
December 10, 2020 / Last updated : December 10, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

USA Today: ‘We are talking about people’s lives,’ dire warnings of public health crisis as COVID vaccine misinformation rages

USA Today: ‘We are talking about people’s lives,’ dire warnings of public health crisis as COVID vaccine misinformation rages. “Hours after Margaret Keenan, a 90-year-old grandmother from the United Kingdom, became the first person to get the COVID-19 vaccine, anti-vaxxers claimed she didn’t exist, that she was dead and that she was part of a […]
December 2, 2020 / Last updated : December 2, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

CNN: Social media must prepare for flood of Covid-19 vaccine misinformation

CNN: Social media must prepare for flood of Covid-19 vaccine misinformation. “Nearly two years ago, public health experts blamed social media platforms for contributing to a measles outbreak by allowing false claims about the risks of vaccines to spread. Facebook pledged to take tougher action on anti-vaccine misinformation, including making it less prominent in the […]
November 28, 2020 / Last updated : November 28, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

ABC News Australia: You may have seen pictures of vaccine vials dated March 15 on social media. There’s a simple explanation

ABC News Australia: You may have seen pictures of vaccine vials dated March 15 on social media. There’s a simple explanation. “Low case numbers, eased lockdowns and the fast-approaching new year have prompted Australians to turn their attention to the likelihood of a return to some sort of pre-COVID normal and to the vaccines that […]
November 19, 2020 / Last updated : November 19, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

South Dakota Nurse: Dying COVID Patients Think It’s Fake (Daily Beast)

Daily Beast: South Dakota Nurse: Dying COVID Patients Think It’s Fake. “A South Dakota nurse whose tweets went viral over the weekend says the hardest part of her job is convincing some critically ill patients that they really do have COVID-19. ‘Their last dying words are, “This can’t be happening, it’s not real,”‘ Jodi Doering […]
November 17, 2020 / Last updated : November 17, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

Covid-19: Stop anti-vaccination fake news online with new law says Labour (BBC)

BBC: Covid-19: Stop anti-vaccination fake news online with new law says Labour. “Emergency laws to “stamp out dangerous” anti-vaccine content online should be introduced, Labour has said. The party is calling for financial and criminal penalties for social media firms that do not remove false scare stories about vaccines. It follows news of progress on […]
November 17, 2020 / Last updated : November 17, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

Poynter: The CoronaVirusFacts Alliance gets a global showcase at the Paris Peace Forum

Poynter: The CoronaVirusFacts Alliance gets a global showcase at the Paris Peace Forum. “The CoronaVirusFacts Alliance, a collection of 99 fact-checking organizations from over 70 countries that produced over 9,000 COVID-19 fact-checks in 43 different languages, received global recognition from the virtually assembled audience at the third annual Paris Peace Forum on Thursday.”
November 14, 2020 / Last updated : November 14, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

World Economic Forum: Are you an infodemiologist? Here are 7 tips on how to spot false information about the pandemic

World Economic Forum: Are you an infodemiologist? Here are 7 tips on how to spot false information about the pandemic. “‘Infodemiology’ – studying the flood of information about the pandemic and how to manage it – is something the World Health Organization wants us all to become well-versed in. And it has devised some simple […]
October 30, 2020 / Last updated : October 30, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

Yahoo Sports: Tom Brady claims on COVID-19 death toll, suicide deemed ‘false’ by PolitiFact

Yahoo Sports: Tom Brady claims on COVID-19 death toll, suicide deemed ‘false’ by PolitiFact. “On Tuesday, Tom Brady made a claim on Instagram that death by suicide has outpaced COVID-19 deaths in the last two months. PolitiFact, a website dedicated to combating misinformation and run by the Poynter Institute, looked into Brady’s claim and concluded […]