Some Black medical professionals who are voluntarily countering misinfo on Clubhouse about COVID-19 and its vaccine say they have been harassed and bullied
- Conspiracies flourish on app including about vaccines and 5G — 'Hey, I was skeptical too, but here's where I am now' Tweets: @mattyglesias , @williamturton , @williamturton , @ericgeller , @jilli...
A look at 493 COVID related iOS apps across 98 countries including each app's permissions requests, developer location and embedded SDKs, sorted by categories
Health and Fitness - Pandemic: The Next App Store Genre? — Since the Coronavirus pandemic began, a host of Covid-19 applications have emerged. Tweets: @d1gi , @rachelcoldicutt , @seanmmcdonald , @ju...
Baseless YouTube conspiracy videos, embraced by CCP media and uploaded to WeChat, Weibo, claim a US Army reservist started the pandemic and are ruining her life
Maatje Benassi, a US Army reservist and mother of two, has become the target of conspiracy theorists who falsely place … Tweets: @cnni , @hadas_gold , @seldo , @cnnnewsroom , @jesselehrich , and @jjma...
Medium's opaque moderation of user-created content related to COVID-19 has allowed misinfo to spread, making it harder to tell fact from fiction on the platform
The platform empowers voices — and misinformation — On March 20th, an article about the novel coronavirus started to spread. Tweets: @zoeschiffer , @reckless , @niemanlab , and @knguyen Tweets: Zoe ...
Some couples, faced with orders to shelter in place to avoid COVID-19, are getting married at home with friends and relatives watching on Zoom
As the coronavirus pandemic continues, socially distanced weddings are moving online — The day — her day — was finally here. Tweets: @thekylehardy , @sokane1 , @tomwarren , @zoeschiffer , @dannypage...
Facebook internal report: US users are reading more COVID-19 content from “higher-quality” sources based on its ranking of top publishers adopted last year
> Is Facebook really a “news powerhouse” again, thanks to coronavirus? (No more than it was before) https://www.niemanlab.org/... Tom Gara / @tomgara : The top four news publishers on Facebook right n...
As coronavirus forces many activities online, the often-invisible digital divide in the US is exposed, with 21M Americans lacking access to high-speed internet
Margaret Harding McGill / Axios : Tweets: @axios , @franochillo , and @margarethmcgill Tweets: @axios : 🖥 DIGITAL DIVIDES: The crisis is offering vivid case studies of real world, everyday harms that...
As coronavirus forces many activities online, the often-invisible digital divide in the US is exposed, with 21M Americans lacking access to high-speed internet
As the coronavirus pushes more human activities online, it's forcing a reckoning with the often-invisible digital divide. Tweets: @axios , @margarethmcgill , and @franochillo Tweets: @axios : 🖥 DIGITA...
Mark Zuckerberg details how Facebook and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative are responding to COVID-19: free ads for WHO and other health orgs, misinfo flagging, more
block #disinformation exploiting #coronavirus emergency — study how anonymized #FB data can help show how #COVID19 virus is spreading But can Zuck & team catch enough #Corona hoaxes going in 100s of l...
Amid virus outbreak, authorities in China are using its vast surveillance network to identify potential carriers, ostracizing even those without the symptoms
The authorities hunt for people from Wuhan, the center of the outbreak, encouraging citizens to inform on others. Tweets: @paulmozur , @sugabelly , @jotted , @amyyqin , and @liyuan6 Tweets: @paulmozur...