COVID Booster: Infodemics, synthetic drugs and convalescent plasma
Five things we learned about COVID-19 this week.
An infodemic is not a pandemicWhen SARS broke out in 2003, people coined the term ‘infodemic’ to describe the...
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Cosmos Briefing: The Decline of Truth
Has science played a role?
‘Truth decay’ is a subject that’s been growing in visibility; the shift away from an accepted and agreed set of facts...
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Hyped-up hills in lying landscapes
Deepfake geography is a potential threat to national security, but the technology can also be use...
In March 2021, Tom Cruise appeared to join TikTok. To casual viewers scrolling through their For You page, it looked ...
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What if instead of blaming readers of misinformation, we showed them how to tell the difference between facts and falsehoods?
Fake news can have fatal consequences, and the technology already exists to help the people most ...
People die because of misinformation. When hydroxychloroquine was publicised as a possible treatment for COVID-19, a ...
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Conversation
Less than half of Australian adults know how to identify misinformation online
A nationally representative survey shows that Australian adults need more help with understanding...
By Tanya Notley, Western Sydney University; Michael Dezuanni, Queensland University of Technology; Simon Chambers, We...
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Banning news links just days before Australia's COVID vaccine rollout?
Facebook, that’s just dangerous.
By Maryke Steffens, University of SydneyFacebook’s decision to ban media organisations from posting links to news...
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Conversation
The types of electoral misinformation
Here are five things you actually need to watch for.
By Kate Starbird and Jevin West, University of Washington, and Renee DiResta, Stanford UniversityWhen there's no ...
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Bots not a part of the vaccine chat
Study suggests influence on information flow not great.
The influence of bots on vaccine-related discussions on social media may be a lot smaller than we think and fear....
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Weeding out the political astroturf
AI uses content alone to detect co-ordinated campaigns.
Social media, in case you hadn’t noticed, is a great boon to activists of all forms. Got a message that you want to s...