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5 Ways to Manage Your Doomscrolling, Besides Turning Your Phone Off
Doomscrolling, according to Merriam-Webster, is “the tendency to continue to surf or scroll through bad news, even though that news is saddening,
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Twitter Will Add Warning Label to Tweets it Deems ‘Viral Misinformation’
Twitter recently announced its new “crisis misinformation policy” which will seek to suppress posts the company deems “viral misinformation.”
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Twitter debuts new 'crisis misinformation policy'
Twitter rolled out a new global "crisis misinformation policy" on Thursday that the company says will combat misinformation during
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Bryan Caplan on "Misinformation About Misinformation"
Economist Bryan Caplan is one of the world's leading experts on political ignorance and irrationality, author of the much-cited book, The
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Former Fox News reporter demands people be jailed over 'misinformation' while attacking Tucker Carlson
Reporter Carl Cameron was a staple of Fox News' political reporting for more than two decades. He left Fox News in 2017 after joining the network at
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Ukraine’s information war is winning hearts and minds in the West
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has dominated headlines since late February 2022. The war struck a nerve among Western audiences, evoking a high
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‘Medical intuitives’ on Tiktok are claiming that ‘healing frequencies’ can cure people from parasites
A growing number of TikTokers are combining clairvoyance with medicine, with 'medical intuitives' going viral on the app by claiming that certain
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White House told a lie about vaccines that was so outrageous that even CNN and WaPo called them out: 'Delete this'
The White House was slammed for a statement about vaccines that spread disinformation. The statement was so blatantly false that even fact-checkers
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White House told a lie about vaccines that was so outrageous that even CNN and WaPo called them out: 'Delete this'
The White House was slammed for a statement about vaccines that spread disinformation. The statement was so blatantly false that even fact-checkers
Do browser extensions keep anyone away from fake news sites? Maybe a tiny bit
As more companies and platforms adopt ways to figure out whether fact-checking, flagging questionable content, or some other form of alert works best
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‘It is obscene what the internet can make people believe’: Cocaine Gate hits Johnny Depp and Amber Heard trial
Social media users have made a spectacle out of the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard trial. Now, Twitter users are in a frenzy debating a clip of Heard
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Elon Musk says relaxing content rules on Twitter will boost free speech, but research shows otherwise
Elon Musk’s accepted bid to purchase Twitter has triggered a lot of debate about what it means for the future of the social media platform, which
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Taking Away Your Right to Choose
Would you allow the State to decide what is misinformation and what isn’t, to suppress speech it considers “dangerous”? Well that is exactly
Pro-Marcos 'misinformation' targets Robredo, main rival in PH polls
THE son and namesake of the Philippines' late dictator Ferdinand Marcos is on track to win Monday's presidential poll, after a massive misinformation
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Propagandist Warns Elitist May Not Censor Information
Propagandist Bill Gates is warning that elitist billionaire Elon Musk could “fail” to censor “misinformation” on Twitter after the