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“Immune to Evidence”: How Dangerous Coronavirus Conspiracies Spread

May 22, 2020

Conspiratorial videos and websites about COVID-19 are going viral. Here’s how one of the authors of “The Conspiracy Theory Handbook” says you can fight back. One big takeaway: Focus your efforts on people who can hear evidence and think rationally.

Read more: https://www.propublica.org/article/immune-to-evidence-how-dangerous-coronavirus-conspiracies-spread?fbclid=IwAR01JrSvAuAUWUL11xAs-ItOM42Erppt2qHRL6AaN4IdZ9ttgNfenfGfORo

Humanitarians on TikTok

May 21, 2020

5 Lessons on Combatting Misinformation During COVID-19.

Read more: https://medium.com/@UNmigration/humanitarians-on-tiktok-246651af74d

COVID-19: Switching online is not an option in conflict-stricken countries in the Middle East

May 21, 2020

If online is the way forward in these times of a pandemic, what about countries stricken by conflicts with limited internet access?

Read more: https://globalvoices.org/2020/05/11/covid-19-switching-online-is-not-an-option-in-conflict-stricken-countries-in-the-middle-east/?fbclid=IwAR3Heq7SxZiqY8VZ8uXaZRI5_WhX06JBlBDu7_ZwCWXmBc_0cihHKtcyX0w

Get Ready for a Vaccine Information War

May 21, 2020

US context reflections on potential ‘anti-vaccination’ misinformation in regards to a COVID vaccine (when there eventually is one).

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/13/technology/coronavirus-vaccine-disinformation.html?fbclid=IwAR3hLha-DbKmcksfEeQ2qeqLAkVxXgqTf1oCsUlMoFDsKvpyz67Qc8fRxFE

Hate Can’t Kill a Virus, Please Be Kind to Others

May 21, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic is definitely a bad thing. Sadly, people can make bad things even worse than they already are. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that the coronavirus pandemic is unleashing “a tsunami of hate and xenophobia, scapegoating and scare-mongering”[1]. He also provided several examples of how this pandemic is quickly becoming a “human rights crisis.”

Read more: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/get-psyched/202005/hate-cant-kill-virus-please-be-kind-others?fbclid=IwAR3EFC423So6P_h_Y8Vr_6ZK6dCx7fD_LVEXZ00MrB92w1zfsIjiSJLyhLk