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COVID Vaccine Injuries – Twitter
https://twitter.com/Storiesofinjury/status/1630321554558001154 This Twitter account spreads misinformation about supposed people who had died from the COVID-19 vaccine. All of their claims are not backed by evidence at all.
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White House TikTok Meeting Cold Open – SNL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1J8t97gPW4 This video pulled from YouTube shows a skit from SNL's show in March 2022. This skit shows President Joe Biden meeting with TikTok stars to get their help combating Russian disinformation surrounding the country’s invasion of Ukraine. There had been speculations about Russia paying TikTok influencers to push pro-Kremlin narratives about the war. This…
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Disinformation hiding in the comments of Instagram
I often see posts on Instagram tagged with the tag 'false information'. Usually it is on the effects of Covid-19, or presidential elections, but disinformation doesn't only exist as just a post. I was searching through Mark Zuckerberg posts on Instagram and I saw many surprising things. I would see posts that were criticizing what…
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Gun Violence Myths in America
Zimring, F. E., & Hawkins, G. (1990). Firearms and Assault: “Guns Don’t Kill People, People Kill People.” In L. Nisbet (Ed.), Gun Control Debate (pp. 170-176). National Criminal Justice Reference Service. NCJ Number 127641. Firearms and Assault: “Guns Don’t Kill People, People Kill People” A common myth used in the topic of gun violence is…
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The Horrifying Images Are Real. But They’re Not From the Israel-Gaza War
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/02/us/politics/israel-gaza-war-misinformation-videos.html This second option is also from the New York Times. This article discusses the recent Israel-Gaza War. It is very easy to see the photos of this tragic fighting online, and to hear about the atrocities that are currently happening, but this article talks about all the fake stuff that is mixed in there…
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Gun Violence in America–A Tri‐Vector ModelJeffrey Taxman, M
Taxman, Jeffrey. “Gun Violence in America – a Tri-Vector Model.” International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, vol. 13, no. 2, June 2016, pp. 113–123, https://doi.org/10.1002/aps.1490. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/aps.1490 In this article from the library it focuses on gun violence and and the shooters mental health which can relate to the concept of emotion in foolproof. In the…
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Fear, Loathing and Fentanyl Exposure
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/04/opinion/fentanyl-opioids-exposure.html?searchResultPosition=8 This article from the New York Times discusses how despite fentanyl being one of the most powerful opioids created, the idea that one can just touch or breathe in the drug and have fatal affects is disinformation. The disinformation has spread to the point where even federal agencies seem divided over whether or not…
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