Is it just me, or does April Fools' Day feel different now?
Spotting misinformation is already hard enough every single day. Back then, figuring out an April 1st prank was a fun, once-a-year challenge.
Now, with the constant flood of fake news, April Fools' jokes almost feel... cruel? Like making light of a serious problem we all face.
Does anyone else feel this way? What are your thoughts?
Anti-vaccine influencer, Danny Lemoi, who took horse Ivermectin every day just died of heart complications. Now his followers—many who also took it—are reporting scary symptoms of their own.
#Ivermectin #Health #Disinformation #UnitedStates #Influencers #HeartDisease #Medicine
"Lara Anton, spokesperson for state health dept, said her office refused the shipment from HHS 'because healthcare providers have not requested it from us.' Kennedy also said that he believes budesonide, clarithromycin, or cod-liver oil can treat measles, but the health department apparently doesn’t want those either."
#measles #RFKJr #Texas #disinformation #medicine #VitaminA #CodLiverOil #quackery #nostrums #nonsense #vaccines
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"RFK Jr. told Fox earlier this month that he was delivering vitamin A to measles-stricken communities in West Texas immediately. But a Texas health official told The Atlantic that no doses of vitamin A ever arrived at the state health department—not because RFK Jr. broke his promise, but because Texas doctors didn’t want them."
~ Ron Filipkowski
#measles #RFKJr #Texas #disinformation #medicine #VitaminA #CodLiverOil #quackery #nostrums #nonsense #vaccines
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https://www.meidasplus.com/p/this-weekend-in-politics-bulletin-27a
Stupid parents result in sick children
A children's hospital in Texas is now treating children for vitamin A toxicity after RFK Jr. touted the vitamin as a measles treatment.
#Health #Measles #Virus #Vaccine #Texas #Disinformation #UnitedStates #VitaminA
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-jr-vitamin-a-toxicity-measles_l_67e6a46ee4b086a4e8de55cf
As generative AI becomes more sophisticated, it’s harder to distinguish the real from the deepfake
#AI #Deepfakes #GenerativeAI #Disinformation #TechEthics #AIDetection #FakeNews #ArtificialIntelligence #Tech #Misinformation #DeepfakeDetection #Real #Fake
https://the-14.com/as-generative-ai-becomes-more-sophisticated-its-harder-to-distinguish-the-real-from-the-deepfake/
As Robyn Pennacchia reports, RFK Jr. is commissioning a study of the nonexistent "link" between vaccines and autism.
And, unsurprisingly, to head that study he has picked a man who is not a doctor nor a scientist, one David Geier, who has been in trouble for practicing medicine without a license.
As with so much about the Trump administration, nothing to see here, more along.
#Trump #RFKJr #vaccines #medicine #research #disinformation #PseudoScience #science
@georgetakei
It's time to call out Apartheid Elon's disinformation by its true name: BULLSHIT. We're not engaged in an Oxford style debate and we do need to grab attention.
AOC, Bernie, and the others should not shy away from this word and others like it.
#ElonMusk #ApartheidElon #DOGE #MAGA #Disinformation #Bullshit
It's really scary how far Poilievre's disinformation about journalism in Canada has spread with the help of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, and the Trump administration's political interference. We need to fight back and speak out. We can't let our echo chambers make us complacent that the rest of the country is informed.
(Primarily British group, btw.)
How to have conversations with people who fall for misinformation this election campaign
#Canada #CanadaElection #Misinformation #FactCheck #Election2025 #PoliticalDebate #MediaLiteracy #VoteSmart #TruthMatters #Disinformation #CriticalThinking #FakeNews
https://the-14.com/how-to-have-conversations-with-people-who-fall-for-misinformation-this-election-campaign/
Don't bother to follow me during the next 2 months if you have no pictures, no introduction, or no significant history or proof you are not a bot. I will block you and if i find anything suspicious report you. Exceptions are allowed based on proof of humanity. #disinformation #misinformation #electioninterference #spying
"97 per cent of #U.S.-#Canada trade in agricultural goods and over 99 per cent of trade in manufactured goods occurs under a zero-#tariff rate". But that's not what #Trump is telling the American people. Trump's spouting #disinformation in his trade war with Canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-trade-war-disinformation-1.7489805
@randahl On my last point, we have two clear examples. In Brazil, when the Supreme Court asked for information about the crimes of the extreme right, it was denied, resulting in X being banned throughout the country for a few weeks
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crkmpe53l6jo
Now, in Turkey, X is following the requests of an authoritarian regime
It seems to me that these are clearly orchestrated disinformation campaigns to undermine democracies. Those responsible for these campaigns are winning.
hundreds of bots localized to Russia’s Internet Research Agency influencing the Brexit
https://pleroma.microblog.se/objects/87f729bd-5544-4628-8ffb-2eb31e8d6453
Which just reminded me of the famous case of 200 bots amplifying disinformation campaigns about the integrity of the American elections a few years ago:
"We found that this group of 200 accounts either generated or were mentioned in over 140 million tweets last year."
https://voterfraud.iwr.ai/voterfraud
I wonder if further investigation was done to check if the "voter fraud" disinformation campaign in the US had Russian hands.
And this case in the US happened when there was more moderation in the platform. Now there's an overt agenda of the far right, amplified by X and its owner.
Want to earn P20,000 ($350) per day? Join Duterte's disinformation network.
Duterte-related content spiked in video platforms after his arrest by the ICC for crimes against humanity. In the first week, over 1,600 YouTube channels shared a total of over 3,000 videos mentioning the former president, many claiming that the arrest was illegal.
#Philippines #Asian #YouTube #DuterteArrest #Disinformation #ICC #Crime #Murder #SocialMedia @pinoy
https://www.rappler.com/technology/decoded-youtubers-posting-lies-propaganda-icc-daily-rate/
"Petro Pedagogy works to insulate the fossil fuel industry from criticism & obfuscate the role of the #FossilFuels industry. Emphasizing individual actions, putting the onus on the consumer & obscuring the role of the industry itself in driving climate change. #Greenwashing is another tool."
A Filipino influencer and prominent Duterte supporter with thousands of followers on Facebook said she was uncomfortable with the idea of being held responsible for her posts because "she just writes what she feels."
#Philippines #Asian #ICC #DuterteArrest #Disinformation #Libel #Crime @pinoy
Veteran UK anti-Zionist campaigner, Tony #Greenstein, eviscerates the BBCs coverage of the Gaza genocide in his most recent blogpost!
https://azvsas.blogspot.com/2025/03/in-1930s-bbc-appeased-and-even_20.html?m=1
“In the 1930s the BBC Appeased and Even Attempted to Justify the Nazi Regime’s Anti-Semitism – Today It Loves Israel and Zionism - Has Anything Changed?”
Spain is done with AI slop and disinfo
｢ The Spanish bill, which needs to be approved by the lower house, classifies non-compliance with proper labelling of AI-generated content as a "serious offence" that can lead to fines of up to 35 million euros ($38.2 million) or 7% of their global annual turnover ｣
