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False Claim
In this Truth Social Post, former president Donald J. Trump is claiming that “there is no evidence Joe Biden won the 2020 election”. This is Trump stating flat out incorrect evidence as the truth to an audience that supports and believes him. While there is no evidence cited in the post proving this claim, there…
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Trump Twitter Disinformation
In this Twitter post from former president Donald J. Trump is clearly claiming that “This election was Rigged.” referring to the 2020 election was rigged, saying this is a clear attempt by the former president to spread disinformation in order to unify his base around this idea. This all ended up culminating in the premeditated…
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mRNA Vaccine Misinformation
Goldhamer, Marisha. “UK cardiologist misleads on Covid-19 vaccine safety”. AFP Fact Check. Published 14 October 2022. https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.32L483D. Accessed 6 May 2024. https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.32L483D https://www.facebook.com/uhpamv/posts/pfbid0SkujKdRnoJgdqzZfBZmfvnGqhFgWEefJgn53UgFay5tf941NRmKtYDvHcXSWV5fEl?mibextid=oFDknk In this Facebook post, an anti-vaccine group is sharing a post by British doctor Aseem Malhotra, who is controversial due to making unfounded and distorted claims about mRNA vaccines. He claims that…
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Disinformation Campaign Falsely Attributes Gaza Aid Workers’ Deaths to Hamas
Author: Ella Benet https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/disinformation-campaign-falsely-attributes-gaza-aid-workers-deaths-to-hamas/ar-BB1kXPle (revision) In this article, Benet writes about how an Associated Press article, which was already in circulation, intentionally lists aid workers who had died in Gaza as Hamas killings. The article points this out as intentional and not an error on the part of the writers as it is clear that…
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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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Disinformation Campaign Falsely Attributes Gaza Aid Workers’ Deaths to Hamas
Author: Ella Benet https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/disinformation-campaign-falsely-attributes-gaza-aid-workers-deaths-to-hamas/ar-BB1kXPle in this article, Ella talks about how the AP article that came before intentionally lists aid workers who had died as hamas killings. This shows the nefarious intent behind it, and the polarization that it comes from because of the beliefs of the press.
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Fentanyl panic goes viral: The spread of misinformation about overdose risk from casual contact with fentanyl in mainstream and social media
Beletsky, L., Seymour, S., Kang, S., Siegel, Z., Sinha, M. S., Marino, R., Dave, A., & Freifeld, C. C. (2020). Fentanyl panic goes viral: The spread of misinformation about overdose risk from casual contact with fentanyl in mainstream and social media. International Journal of Drug Policy, 86, 102951. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2020.102951 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0955395920302851?dgcid=coauthor A substantial amount of false…
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