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Large body of misinformation is fueling American gun violence
Tom Gabor and Fred Guttenberg. "Large body of misinformation is fueling American gun violence." Published at 11:07 a.m. ET June 7, 2023 https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/opinion/columns/2023/06/07/gun-misinformation-fuels-american-violence/70281179007/ The sentence emphasizes how widely the gun lobby has spread false information about the safety and ownership of firearms in America. Gun control advocates point to phrases like "people kill, not guns"…
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News Media Framing of Serious Mental Illness and Gun Violence in the United States, 1997-2012
McGinty, Emma E., et al. “News Media Framing of Serious Mental Illness and Gun Violence in the United States, 1997-2012.” American Journal of Public Health, vol. 104, no. 3, Mar. 2014, pp. 406–413, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3953754/, https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2013.301557. Accessed 12 Jan. 2019. https://web.p.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=0&sid=20f3e7fd-d4f1-4c2c-a901-8f9893e53867%40redis This article illustrates these concepts because the main idea is about Gun Violence in the…
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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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Ukraine war: How TikTok fakes pushed Russian lies to millions
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67687449 There is a vast Russia based network of fake TikTok accounts that are posing as real users from countries such as Germany, France, Poland, and Ukraine. These accounts are using stolen profile photos and posting just one video each targeting many Ukrainian officials and portraying them as uncaring about ordinary citizens and the war…
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Double dose of Narcan saves sheriff deputy’s life during drug bust
https://www.ktvu.com/news/double-dose-of-narcan-saves-sheriff-deputys-life-during-drug-bust https://www.ktvu.com/news/double-dose-of-narcan-saves-sheriff-deputys-life-during-drug-bust In Alameda County California, a sheriffs deputy was saved by a double dose of narcan after being exposed to fetanyl during a drug bust in a motel. despite the initial dose failing, the second dose was effective. the incident highlighted the life saving importance of carrying narcan, especially given the dangers of law…
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Police Officer overdoses after brushing fentanyl powder off his uniform
(Moshtaghian, A)(2017) Police Officer overdoese after brushing fentanyl powder off his uniform-CNN https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/16/health/police-fentanyl-overdose-trnd/index.html This article claims that a police officer in Ohio had a fentanyl overdose due to brushing fentanyl powder off his uniform. According to the article, the police officer almost immediately started feeling unwell and disoriented after doing so. He collapsed and was…
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Double dose of Narcan saves sheriff deputy’s life during drug bust
Fox KTVU, https://www.ktvu.com/news/double-dose-of-narcan-saves-sheriff-deputys-life-during-drug-bust. Accessed 1 April 2024. https://www.ktvu.com/news/double-dose-of-narcan-saves-sheriff-deputys-life-during-drug-bust A story from 2018 shows two Alameda County Sheriff’s experienced the effects of “fentanyl exposure.” The article shows inaccuracy and misinformation about the actual symptoms of fentanyl and fentanyl overdose. The article also uses scary language to stigmatize drug users. Officers claimed "His eyes rolled into the…
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The Horrifying Images Are Real. But They’re Not From the Israel-Gaza War
Fichera, Angelo. “The Horrifying Images Are Real. But They’re Not From the Israel-Gaza War.” The New York Times. 2 November 2023. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/02/us/politics/israel-gaza-war-misinformation-videos.html?searchResultPosition=40 Accessed 31 March 2024. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/02/us/politics/israel-gaza-war-misinformation-videos.html?searchResultPosition=40 This article is about images and videos being falsely portrayed as Israel-Gaza war imagery. The images and footage being spread online are real– but the problem is that…
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