By Elizabeth Dwoskin The barrage of false images, memes, videos and posts — mostly generated from within the region itself — is making it difficult…
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By Didi Rankovic UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres last week addressed a high-level meeting in New York City to detail the ideas around preparing for “the next pandemic.”…
By Didi Rankovic The idea of a pandemic was just recently seared into everybody’s minds (rightly so, given the level of disruption caused by…
Food and beverage industry lobbyists paid dozens of registered dietitians with millions of social media followers to promote aspartame and sugar, The Washington Post found.…
By ATHENA THORNE In addition to writing for PJ Media, I also help out with editing duties behind the scenes. We PJ editors try to…
By James Howard Kunstler “The word misinformation literally just means being wrong, and disinformation is lying. That’s all they mean. There’s no extra meaning to…
By Jose Nino In an interview with CNN earlier this month, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker declared that individuals have the right to free speech. But there’s a…
Under New ‘Medical Misinformation’ Policy, YouTube Will Delete Content That Contradicts WHO Guidance
Under New ‘Medical Misinformation’ Policy, YouTube Will Delete Content That Contradicts WHO Guidance
By Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D. In what one critic described as a “substantial escalation” in YouTube’s “crusade against … medical misinformation,” the social media video platform…
By DAVID KLEPPER AND ALI SWENSON WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump and his supporters are reacting to a third indictment against him with a now-familiar playbook: deflecting with unrelated…
By Clay Waters The initial New York Times review of Sound of Freedom, a thriller based on child-trafficking-buster Tim Ballard, was negative but nonpolitical. But now that Donald Trump…
By ELLA LEE An order limiting the Biden administration’s communication with social media companies could make it harder to curb disinformation as the 2024 election nears. A…
By Caden Pearson Rep. Jason Smith says Hunter’s lawyer is trying to “chill investigation” and intimidate whistleblower Hunter Biden’s attorney on Friday accused House Republicans…
By DAVID KLEPPER WASHINGTON (AP) — The cherry tree folklore is too good to be true, but it’s no lie that George Washington had a thing for…
By Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D. An academic researcher with a background in communication, political science and American studies — but no science or medical background —…
A new World Health Organization initiative asks member states to combat what the agency calls an ‘infodemic’ — an overabundance of information, “accurate or not,”…
By JASON COHEN Foundations with large endowments and a history of bankrolling leftist causes are partnering to finance a new global group of researchers…
by Jacob M. Thompson “When people believe, and act on, misinformation the public’s health suffers,” the FDA says. On May 22nd the United States…
By Topwar On the night of May 22, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation delivered a series of powerful strikes against military facilities on…