COVID-related disinformation continues to contribute the lion's share of the fake news news this week. Too many Americans are taking the disinformation and conspiracy theories to heart and refusing to get vaccinated, which is contributing to the spike in COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths, all completely avoidable. Here's the equation for you: DISINFORMATION = DEATH. Meditate … Continue reading Fake News for the Week Ending August 27, 2021
Fake news, disinformation, and conspiracy theories continue to steamroll across the country. Here are the most notable instances from the past week. Belief in COVID-related conspiracies is contributing to a growing amount of conflict throughout our society. Opposition to both masking and vaccines is taking over debates at school board and city council meetings across … Continue reading Fake News for the Week Ending August 20, 2021
There's a lot of news about fake news this week, so let's skip the preliminaries and get right to it. Conspiracy theories seem to be particularly appealing to right-wingers, for whatever reason, and it's nothing new. (Remember the so-called "Communist plot" to put fluoride in our water back in the '50s and '60s, parodied by … Continue reading Fake News for the Week Ending August 13, 2021
COVID-related disinformation and vaccine hesitancy keep leading the fake news parade. It continues to amaze me that about a third of the people in this country insist on believing random people on social media rather than the legions of doctors, scientists, and other experts who report the facts that the COVID vaccine is both safe … Continue reading Fake News for the Week Ending August 6, 2021
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