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Investigating how science-related disinformation spreads around the world
The Infodemic: Junk science in France; the Uyghur lockdown; rising tensions in Belarus
22 Jun, 2020
The Infodemic—Fake news of a vanquished virus alarms Mexico; Covid-19 awakens Europe to its foreign disinformation threat
19 Jun, 2020
The Infodemic: Pseuodohealth shops struggle during pandemic; Siberian city says pollution saved it from coronavirus
15 Jun, 2020
The Infodemic: nursery rhyme outrage; backlash against Germany’s Fauci; caste-based hate crimes on the rise in India
12 Jun, 2020
The Infodemic: Fake images in Ecuador; predictions in India too good to be true; Armenia runs out of hospital beds
8 Jun, 2020
The Infodemic: Japanese official’s racist COVID hot-take; Facebook labels “state-controlled” media; French doctors present anti-vax gift to Africa
5 Jun, 2020
The Infodemic: Bolsonaro welfare lies; LGBTQ shaming in Putin’s referendum
3 Jun, 2020
The Infodemic: Authoritarians cheer America’s moral decline; Moscow cancels Musk
1 Jun, 2020
The Infodemic: Conspiracy in Nigeria; fake train subsidies in India, and why Dominic Cummings can’t trend on Twitter
30 May, 2020
The Infodemic: The problem with Twitter’s Trump fact-check, abortions in the post-Covid world and why gaming platforms work well for conspiracists
27 May, 2020
The Infodemic: Islamophobia escalates during Covid-19; the real harm of Trump’s health advice
22 May, 2020
The Infodemic: How Facebook helped the Plandemic spread, Cameroon’s missing president and the first fruit of China’s facemask diplomacy in Serbia
20 May, 2020
The Infodemic: Russia and EU accuse each other of spreading misinfo; Bolivian president turns to pseudoscience; Islamophobic Covid-19 disinfo spreads
18 May, 2020
The Infodemic: Rumors in Wuhan; WHO’s troubles in Africa; the pseudo-remedy gadget that politicians love
15 May, 2020
The Infodemic: The not-so-fake news of the second wave, big lesson from Sweden and the story of Doctor Dick Longballs
13 May, 2020