Internal docs show how antivax activists flooded vaccine content on Facebook with negative comments, despite Zuckerberg's push to promote COVID-19 vaccines
Internal company documents suggest that the company plays down awareness of its flaws. Kara Swisher / New York Times : The Endless Facebook Apology Katie Canales / Insider : Apple reportedly threatene...
WHO grants Wikipedia free use of its published data, allowing it to be reposted widely in almost 200 languages and starting with COVID-19 information
making its work openly available for reuse, resharing, and importantly, for translations. #openaccess https://www.nytimes.com/... Anusha / @anushaa100 : So proud of this collaboration between @WHO and...
Investigation by BBC and ISD think tank into the COVID-19 “infodemic” on Facebook finds right-wing misinformation had far more interactions than the WHO and CDC
“What if [they] are trying to kill off as many people as possible” reads one Facebook post. Tweets: @carljackmiller , @bbcclick , @carljackmiller , @carljackmiller , @carljackmiller , @carljackmiller ...
Research: the number of coronavirus-related domains has grown to 68K+ this year; coronavirus.com, reportedly owned by GoDaddy, currently forwards to WHO's site
Brandy Zadrozny / NBC News : Tweets: @brandyzadrozny Tweets: Brandy Zadrozny / @brandyzadrozny : The man behind Ebola dot com is hoping for a similar payday for several coronavirus websites. I talked...
Research: the number of coronavirus-related domains has grown to 68K+ this year; coronavirus.com, reportedly owned by GoDaddy, currently forwards to WHO's site
“People have this idea that you shouldn't profit on the tragedy,” one domain seller said. “I think that's kind of a superstition.” Tweets: @brandyzadrozny Tweets: Brandy Zadrozny / @brandyzadrozny : ...
WhatsApp announces two initiatives to combat COVID-19 misinformation: an Information Hub in partnership with WHO and others, and a $1M grant to Poynter
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WhatsApp announces two initiatives to combat COVID-19 misinformation: an Information Hub in partnership with WHO and others, and a $1M grant to Poynter
but is was fake. How @WhatsApp is now the misinformation frontline https://www.politico.eu/... w/ @JanoschDelcker & @zosiawanat See also Mediagazer
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...