Online “Wormholes”: How Scientific Publishing Is Weaponized to Fuel COVID-19 Disinformationpublished originally on Tech Policy PressSep 3, 2021Sep 3, 2021
How Social Media Fanned the Flames of Israeli-Palestinian ViolenceIsraeli and Palestinian extremists are leveraging each other’s social media content to radicalize their own publics and escalate violenceJun 3, 2021Jun 3, 2021
Published inAn Injustice!A Movement Maturing Beyond Social Media: How the Antivax Campaign Is Gaining Steam on the GroundLast year, just before the pandemic hit, anti vaxxers celebrated a victory inNew Jersey. A hub for the pharma industry, they had managed…Jan 4, 2021Jan 4, 2021
If YouTube’s Algorithm was an Editor, Trump’s Campaign Would Hire ThemA lot has been written about the dismissal of facts and reality by President Trump and his allies and their relentless effort to push…Dec 3, 2020Dec 3, 2020
A Conversation Divided: A Covid-19 Vaccine is Still in the Making, but Remarkable Polarization…Conversations about a Covid-19 vaccine have been ongoing since the disease came into our lives. As researchers, pharma companies and…Sep 8, 2020Sep 8, 2020
More signals behind Covid-19 fake “confession” operation point to ChinaIn an earlier post I described the emergence of an anonymous “confession” blaming the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious…Aug 23, 20201Aug 23, 20201
Covid19 disinfo wars: seeding on Facebook, harvesting on WeiboOn 8/11/2020 a newly activated Facebook account by the name of “Smantha Hill”, published a long post, claiming to deliver a first hand…Aug 16, 2020Aug 16, 2020
Beirut explosion and the resurrection of pro-Kremlin disinformation machine SouthFront on social…The devastating explosion in Beirut was followed almost immediately by an expected wave of misinformation on social media. A claim that it…Aug 6, 2020Aug 6, 2020
The weaponization of science against itself: PubMed as an exampleWhen looking into the tool box used by the anti science movement, and particularly during Covid-19, one great source for science deniers…Aug 1, 2020Aug 1, 2020
How Mainstreaming of Anti Vaxxers Granted Conspiracy Theorists a Covid-19 SpotlightIn January 2020, before we were familiar with Covid-19, Alex Jones’ channel, Infowars, hosted Del Bigtree — a a producer, and antivax…May 7, 2020May 7, 2020
