Posts tagged influencers
Judge finds Newsmax aired false and defamatory claims about voting-tech company

A Delaware judge, once again, has found that a conservative news outlet broadcast false and defamatory claims about the role a voting technology company played in the 2020 presidential election. This time, that network is Newsmax, Fox News' upstart rival, which is fresh off a successful initial public offering.
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ESPN’s Pat McAfee and others amplified a false rumor. A teenager’s life was ‘destroyed’

It is Feb. 26, and ‘The Pat McAfee Show’ is filming in Indianapolis the week of the NFL Scouting Combine. McAfee sits behind a desk. Before him is an arc of chairs, occupied by a few of what he describes as his ‘stooges’ and a featured guest: Adam Schefter, ESPN’s NFL insider.
The Athletic

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Mark Curtis, Stephen Richer join The Integrity Project Board of Directors, elevate mission to inform public about misinformation

Apolitical nonprofit and trusted mis- and disinformation research organization – The Integrity Project – is pleased to announce that veteran news broadcaster Mark Curtis and distinguished elections expert Stephen Richer have joined its volunteer Board of Directors.
The Integrity Project

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Misinformation about fentanyl exposure threatens to undermine overdose response

Fentanyl, the deadly synthetic opioid driving the nation's high drug overdose rates, is also caught up in another serious problem: misinformation. False and misleading narratives on social media, in news reports and even in popular television dramas suggesting people can overdose from touching fentanyl — rather than ingesting it — are now informing public policy and spending decisions.
National Public Radio

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Remedy Supported by Kennedy Leaves Some Measles Patients More Ill

Doctors in West Texas are seeing measles patients whose illnesses have been complicated by an alternative therapy endorsed by vaccine skeptics including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary. Parents in Gaines County, Texas, the center of a raging measles outbreak, have increasingly turned to supplements and unproven treatments to protect their children, many of whom are unvaccinated, against the virus.
The New York Times

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Disinformation experts blast Trump’s executive order on government censorship as ‘direct assault on reality’

One of President Donald Trump’s first actions as he returned to the Oval Office in January was signing an executive order aimed at “restoring freedom of speech and ending federal censorship” of US citizens. The order bans federal officials from any conduct that “would unconstitutionally abridge the free speech of any American citizen.”
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Voice of America journalists speak out after Trump administration shuts down network

As of last week, the Voice of America is silent. The storied broadcaster was launched in 1942 to counter Nazi propaganda, but two weeks ago president Donald Trump usurped Congress' authority and signed an executive order effectively shutting down the taxpayer funded broadcaster for what the White House calls "radical propaganda."
60 Minutes

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