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02.03.2022 / 17:17

Spot the bot: How to navigate fake news about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

As Russian troops descended on Ukraine, the internet lit up with footage said to be from the region — destroyed buildings, planes lighting up the night sky, and air raid sirens ringing in the background of live streams.

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Coronavirus: Anti-vaccine posters pop up on mailboxes in Kingston suburb

COVID-19 vaccines.“These vaccines are extraordinarily safe,” says Dr. Gerald Evans, chair of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Queen’s University.“The chances of having a severe reaction to the vaccine within 15 minutes is somewhere between one and three per one million doses given.

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COMMENTARY: Battling an ‘infodemic’ a real concern as COVID-19 vaccine nears

COVID-19 has taken the lives of over 1.4 million people worldwide. But we are now closer than ever to a vaccine.With Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca leading the pack in COVID-19 vaccine development, there is glimmering hope for the near future.

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Facebook says it will ban advertisements discouraging public from getting vaccinated

Facebook Inc will start banning ads that explicitly discourage people from getting vaccinated, the world’s largest social media company said on Tuesday, as it also announced a new flu vaccine information campaign.Ads advocating for or against legislation or government policies around vaccines, including a COVID-19 vaccine, will still be allowed, the company said in a blog post. It will begin to enforce the new global policy in the next few days.

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Misinformation is spread as fast as coronavirus. It will ‘take a village’ to fight it

coronavirus, and similarly, experts are searching for a solution to misinformation.Both have spread rapidly. Both are dangerous and transmittable.

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Coronavirus misinformation is spreading — what is Canada doing about it?

coronavirus is acting as an accelerant to misinformation. Concerns from experts about its consequences are accelerating just as fast.As the World Health Organization said in February, COVID-19 is more than just a pandemic — it’s an “infodemic,” one that has made it “hard for people to find trustworthy sources and reliable guidance when they need it.”Both online and offline, experts agree misinformation is spreading rapidly.

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Edmonton’s Caulfield brothers battle COVID-19 misinformation with art, science

Timothy Caulfield’s latest project in the fight against fake news invites people to take a pause and think, before sharing. University of Alberta prof’s show debunking health myths picked up by Netflix The brothers said it’s part of a broader project to combat misinformation.“We really want to come at this issue from every angle we possibly can,” Timothy said.

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Facebook groups shift from attacking coronavirus restrictions to Black Lives Matter

Facebook groups that took root across the country in April to organize protests over coronavirus stay-at-home orders has become a hub of misinformation and conspiracies theories that have pivoted to a variety of new targets. Their latest: Black Lives Matter and the nationwide protests of racial injustice.These groups, which now boast a collective audience of more than 1 million members, are still thriving after most states started lifting virus restrictions.And many have expanded their focus.

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COMMENTARY: A pandemic misinformation law is the wrong response to a real problem

A couple of weeks after reports first emerged that China was likely underreporting its number of COVID-19-related deaths, the Chinese government has finally come out and confirmed what a lot of people already suspected.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0