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- A Dutch Psychologist Wants to Vaccinate You Against Fake News https://www.wired.com/story/this-psychologist-wants-to-vaccinate-you-against-fake-news/ 2 comments
- Calls for a new ‘digital vaccination’ for children to tackle fake news and disinformation https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/news/calls-new-digital-vaccination-children-tackle-fake-news-and-disinformation 47 comments technology
- It's possible to 'vaccinate' Americans against fake news, experiment shows http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-fake-news-vaccine-20170126-story.html 7 comments politics
- Scientists develop fake news 'vaccine' to combat climate change myths http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-23/scientists-develop-fake-news-vaccine/8205812 3 comments nottheonion
- Scientists develop fake news 'vaccine' to combat climate change myths http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-23/scientists-develop-fake-news-vaccine/8205812 4 comments worldnews
- "Vaccine" Against Fake News: How to inoculate yourself and others against "alternative facts" https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-athletes-way/201701/fake-news-vaccine-inoculates-against-alternative-facts 8 comments politics
- Covid-19: Stop anti-vaccination fake news online with new law says Labour (UK) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-54947661 16 comments worldnews
- Anti-vaccine movement spreading ‘fake news’ online and putting children at risk, England’s top doctor warns https://www.yahoo.com/news/anti-vaccine-movement-spreading-fake-101923469.html 2038 comments worldnews
- QAnon conspiracists accuse Fox News of faking Trump interview advocating for vaccine https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/qanon-fox-news-of-fake-trump-interview-b1819276.html 102 comments politics
- AP News: Pope denounces fake news about COVID, vaccines, urges truth https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-pope-francis-science-health-media-71c11bb5580ba870332c33d949b16ebb 5 comments europe
- Vaccine drive slowed by 50%, official laments, blaming online 'fake news' https://www.timesofisrael.com/vaccine-drive-slowed-by-50-official-laments-blaming-online-fake-news/ 3 comments technology
- 'Fake news' about a Covid-19 vaccine has become a second pandemic, Red Cross chief says https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/01/media/red-cross-chief-warns-vaccine-mistrust-trnd/index.html 14 comments worldnews
- Fauci: Vaccinating people who think COVID-19 is ‘fake news’ will be ‘real problem’ https://www.kansascity.com/news/coronavirus/article247299294.html 35 comments politics
- Dr. Fauci says vaccinating people who disregard Covid as 'fake news' could be 'a real problem' https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/coronavirus-dr-fauci-says-vaccinating-people-who-disregard-covid-as-fake-news-could-be-a-real-problem-.html 180 comments politics
- CIA organised fake vaccinations to obtain Osama bin Laden's family DNA | World news | The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/11/cia-fake-vaccinations-osama-bin-ladens-dna 28 comments worldnews
- Influencers say they got offered thousands to spread fake news on Pfizer COVID-19 vaccin https://globalnews.ca/news/7894613/covid-19-coronavirus-misinformation-influencer-france-sponsor-fake-news/ 6 comments worldnews
- Russia spreads fake news over Oxford virus vaccine (including claims UK Covid Vaccine Will turn you into monkey) https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/utterly-deplorable-russian-claim-british-vaccine-turns-you-into-a-monkey_uk_5f894cd3c5b6dc2d17f5a802?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=ahr0chm6ly93d3cuz29vz2xllmnvbs8&guce_referrer_sig=aqaaac_kmqlr2siyn1ojfy4pcxrw0yl0gb6yxzezohoikosxtiy-rd79tdx_dlqz7sfunzwhvkajisbax0mjmn2c_tczlzb9c8giskdz0wmuxrzoz_lbanuew_e2wy9ypdmorjom4bidubwmn2rjdupvnmopfujlqca1b2th07ntewuf 673 comments worldnews
- Fake News Alert | Nobel Laureate Luc Montagnier Didn’t Say All Vaccinated People Will Die In Two Years https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/trends/current-affairs-trends/fake-news-alert-nobel-laureate-luc-montagnier-didnt-say-all-vaccinated-people-will-die-in-two-years-6941371.html 11 comments worldnews
- How Flanders indirectly funds fake coronavirus news - The Flemish government is facing claims of indirectly supporting fake coronavirus news, after it was linked to a bi-monthly magazine blaming the virus on everything from 5G to the flu vaccine https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/139319/5g-or-flu-how-flanders-funded-fake-coronavirus-news-biogezond-measures-against-virus-levensschool-uncensored-information-viruswaarheid-sciensano-hilde-crevits/ 18 comments europe
- Facebook Won’t Stop Dangerous Anti-Vaccine Hoaxes From Spreading: Russians promoting fake news is bad enough, but pages claiming vaccines harm children is outright dangerous—and the company is doing nothing to stop them. https://www.thedailybeast.com/facebook-wont-stop-dangerous-anti-vaccine-hoaxes-from-spreading?ref=home 712 comments technology
- KP govt. finds out that the "3000 kids sick due to polio vaccines" was fake news, and 0 kids actually fell sick. Propagandists arrested. https://twitter.com/babarbinatta/status/1120436559696805888 37 comments pakistan
- Bad News: the game researchers hope will 'vaccinate' public against fake news - Aim is for players to build a fake news empire, which researchers hope will expose propaganda tactics https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/feb/20/bad-news-the-game-researchers-hope-will-vaccinate-public-against-fake-news 20 comments technology
- Cambridge scientists consider fake news 'vaccine' - The appearance of fake news on websites and social media has inspired scientists to develop a "vaccine" to immunise people against the problem. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38714404 4 comments worldnews
- Since news emerged that the CIA ran a fake vaccination program in Pakistan in an effort to find bin Laden, 31 people have been killed in attacks on polio vaccinators, who are accused of being spies. http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/12/pakistan-polio-workers-targeted-killing-201312118364851379.html 59 comments worldnews
- Psychological ‘vaccine’ could help immunise public against ‘fake news’ on climate change – study. The study compared reactions to a well-known climate change fact with those to a popular misinformation campaign. https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/psychological-vaccine-could-help-immunise-public-against-fake-news-on-climate-change-study 6 comments science
- Anti-vaxxers spread misinformation on social media – Measles cases in Europe are at a 20-year high and 72 children and vulnerable adults died of it last year. The EU health commissioner, Vytenis Andriukaitis, has warned against the peddling of “fake news” about vaccine safety. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jan/24/anti-vaxxers-spread-misinformation-on-social-media-report 396 comments worldnews
- Targeting mistrust and gullibility could reduce beliefs in conspiracies and fake news. People who are mistrustful are more likely to believe in conspiracies, including relating to COVID-19 and vaccine hesitancy, and those who are more gullible, or 'credulous', are more likely to believe fake news. https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/targeting-mistrust-could-reduce-conspiracy-and-fake-news-beliefs 3 comments science
- Fighting fake news online: going beyond scientific slogans to connect with people emotionally. Researchers found only using facts to tackle misinformation didn't change the hearts and minds of anti-vaxxers or have any substantive effect on vaccine hesitancy. https://www.surrey.ac.uk/news/fighting-fake-news-online-going-beyond-scientific-slogans-connect-people-emotionally 87 comments science
- Cambridge scientists consider fake news 'vaccine', that works through pre-emptively warning people about politically motivated attempts to spread misinformation, which helps promote and protect (“inoculate”) public attitudes about the scientific consensus, in a large experiment (N = 2167). http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-38714404 6 comments science
- In Science: Misleading COVID-19 headlines from mainstream sources did more harm on Facebook than fake news - new research shows that unflagged but misleading content on Facebook was less persuasive, but much more widely seen, and thus generated more COVID-19 vaccine skepticism than flagged misinfo https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adk3451 2 comments science
- Fake news ‘vaccine’ works, suggests a large new study (n=15,000), which shows a simple online game works like a “vaccine”, increasing skepticism of fake news by giving people a “weak dose” of the methods behind disinformation, a version of what psychologists call ‘inoculation theory’. https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/fake-news-vaccine-works-pre-bunk-game-reduces-susceptibility-to-disinformation 1882 comments science
- Mumbai: 'Ploy to make Muslims infertile' rumours stall vaccination drive by BMC. At least 60 Urdu schools have now refused the permission to administer measles-rubella vaccination to kids due to fake news doing the rounds on the social media. https://www.timesnownews.com/india/article/mumbai-bmc-measles-rubella-vaccination-drive-muslims-infertile-rumours-urdu-schools/347717 54 comments india