Pandemic conspiracy theories are being spread using Wayback Machine links of content already discredited by fact-checkers and even deleted
Since the onset of the pandemic, the Technology and Social Change Research Project at Harvard Kennedy's Shorenstein Center, where I am the director … Tweets: @aaronwall , @thedailybeast , @wrklsshrd , @utischool , @mantzarlis , and @xor Tweets: Aaron Wall / @aaronwall : its not enough to filter active websites, one must also delete the past to be able to rewrite it. https://twitter.com/... @thedailybeast : After Trump's “sarcastic” comment about injecting bleach to kill COVID-19, Senate Republicans accepted “the idea that the gullible, Facebook-addicted Trumpnotized political zombies in his movement are going to die either fast or slow,” says @therickwilson https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ... Sam Jeffers / @wrklsshrd : @BostonJoan @amelia_acker Great find. This would seem to have a fairly easy technical fix, no? FB (or other large platform) could check for orphaned content and massively downrank it by default. @utischool : Web archives are being used to spread COVID-19 disinformation on social media platforms. This article features new research from iSchool faculty Amelia Acker: https://www.technologyreview.com/ ... Alexios / @mantzarlis : the challenge with openly archiving known misinformation is that you are openly archiving known misinformation https://www.technologyreview.com/ ... Parker Higgins / @xor : This is super interesting research, but it's really two stories presented as one. That matters because the two problems have different solutions https://www.technologyreview.com/ ...