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Apr 25, 2023 - This updated COVID-19 Misinformation Playbook from the Online News Association is designed to help journalists and newsrooms quickly pinpoint COVID-19 facts...

Background: Social media is widely used as a source of news and information regarding COVID-19. However, the abundance of misinformation on social media...

Background: Crowdfunding is increasingly used to offset the financial burdens of illness and health care. In the era of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated...

Contrary to a poorly researched Wall Street Journal commentary, the new COVID vaccines have been tested appropriately and, like their predecessors, will likely...

Canadian regulator faults nurse for nearly identical claim as then-CDC director about viral loads. Washington judge ignores likelihood of success on merits as...

Tony Burchard, president of the Virginia Hospital Center Foundation, discusses fighting COVID health misinformation

Jan 31, 2023 - Without social media regulation and strong education, you’re just left ‘bailing water with a teaspoon’ when it comes to COVID-19 misinformation, says...

Santa Clara County officials are warning residents of text messages that falsely claim to have extra doses of the COVID vaccine.

Megha Sundriyal, Ganeshan Malhotra, Md Shad Akhtar, Shubhashis Sengupta, Andrew Fano, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Proceedings of the Workshop on Combating Online...

Katherine Wu discusses combating vaccine misinformation.

Background: Social media is widely used as a source of news and information regarding COVID-19. However, the abundance of misinformation on social media...

Background: During global health crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic, rapid spread of misinformation on social media has occurred. The misinformation...

Fibs about the pandemic are almost as transmissible as the disease itself. Learn with the AMA what to say in the exam room and online to slow their spread.

A new United Nations initiative aims to push back against the tide of lies and hate that has risen in tandem with the COVID-19 pandemic.

Misinformation about COVID vaccines is still playing a big role in keeping people from getting the shots.

Anti-vaccine propaganda and misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine threaten public health. This interview unpacks those issues.

YouTube will offer creators a way to rejoin the streaming platform if they were banned for violating COVID-19 and election misinformation policies that are no...

Facebook is facing its toughest challenge yet: an election complicated by a pandemic, a deeply divided nation lured by conspiracy theories and alternate...

Covid misinformation on Facebook is killing people - Biden

Facebook is adding some new measures to stop the spread of potentially dangerous COVID-19 misinformation.

Spotify CEO Daniel Elk is introducing 'content advisories' following concerns about COVID misinformation on 'The Joe Rogan Experience'.

What a difference that "mis-" prefix makes: News outlets cover a rash of covid misinformation across the country, including how misinformation (instead of...

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which hands out government funds for noncommercial media, is awarding more than a quarter million dollars in emergency...

Background: Misinformation about COVID-19 is common and has been spreading rapidly across the globe through social media platforms and other information...

"Can the social media companies be more helpful on these issues?"

Republican lawmakers threatened to disband the Tennessee medical board because of its policy against COVID falsehoods.

After a year that saw the UK host the Cop26 summit, experts have raised concern over an increase in climate misinformation.

The prevalence of health misinformation on social media could significantly influence individuals' health behaviors. To examine the prevalent topics,...

Bibliographic details on Misinformation and Polarization around COVID-19 vaccines in France, Germany, and Italy.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Claire Wardle, U.S. director of the non-profit First Draft News, about online misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines.

The social network also put warning labels on another 98 million posts across Facebook and Instagram

The Biden administration on Thursday slammed Facebook for not working hard enough to censor misinformation about COVID-19 and its vaccines.

Biggest challenge: Putting a warning label on Tucker Carlson's forehead.

Facebook is adding informational labels to posts about vaccines as it expands efforts to counter COVID-19-related misinformation.

San Diego County was the first to declare a public health crisis over misinformation about COVID-19.

The company said Trump Jr.'s account would be limited for 12 hours. It said the president's son put out a tweet with "misleading and potentially harmful"...

Justice Sonia Sotomayor falsely claimed the omicron variant was just as deadly as delta, and that 100,000 children are on ventilators due to COVID.

The work presented in this paper makes multiple scientific contributions with a specific focus on the analysis of misinformation about COVID-19 on YouTube....

COVID-19 disinformation and misinformation campaigns continue to proliferate around the world, with potentially harmful consequences for society.

Aug 4, 2021 - Facebook has banned researchers from NYU who are studying the misinformation running rampant on the social media platform.

How to spot and avoid falsities in wellness community online; plus, how COVID had a surprisingly positive effect on one school.

Videos that claim a COVID-19 vaccine will 'kill people or cause infertility' or result in vaccine-takers getting microchipped will all get removed.