JonathanDisinformation.
It's not new. It can be foreign interference.
A thread in which I provide links to articles about disinformation and combatting it, and also get banned by a (fake) television channel.
This is a good entry page
Some interesting publications on the government of Canada CSIS website
https://www.canada.ca/en/security-intelligence-service/corporate/publications.html
There have been many articles written on disinformation, its sources, reasons, etc.
This is just one:
Government-sponsored disinformation and the severity of respiratory infection epidemics including COVID-19: A global analysis, 2001–2020
Internet misinformation and government-sponsored disinformation campaigns have been criticized for their presumed/hypothesized role in worsening the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. We hypothesize that these government-sponsored disinformation ...
This is just one example, but disclose.tv is misinformation.
(I got blocked on the bird site by them for this post.)
https://www.dw.com/en/disclosetv-english-disinformation-made-in-germany/a-60694332
Well I've never been blocked by a (kinda) TV channel before so ...
... that's cool.
"That Uplifting Tweet You Just Shared? A Russian Troll Sent It."
Broniatowski, David A., et al . ‘Weaponized Health Communication: Twitter Bots and Russian Trolls Amplify the Vaccine Debate’. American Journal of Public Health 108, no. 10 (October 2018): 1378–84. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2018.304567.
"It was especially effective to offer rebuttals in “vulnerable subgroups,” such as people in the U.S. who identify as conservative."
Amusing sentence, haha.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-019-0632-4
Hmm this isn't free either.
This is a summary article, which is:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-019-0746-8.pdf
Here are authors' slides:
https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/epi-win/presentations-of-all-speeches/webinar-14-ps-ue-8-april-2020.pdf?sfvrsn=7725b501_2
Countering science denial - Nature Human Behaviour
As the spectre of ‘post-truth’ looms over society, an important question remains: how to effectively respond to the growing climate of science denial? New research shows that leaving denial unanswered can have negative consequences. Fortunately, countering science deniers can reduce their influence, even among those most likely to hold anti-scientific beliefs.
"It takes a village to manipulate the media: coordinated link sharing behavior during 2018 and 2019 Italian elections"
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369118X.2020.1739732
This one is not free. I won't delete it, but I thought it was open access.
Allem, Jon-Patrick, and Emilio Ferrara. ‘Could Social Bots Pose a Threat to Public Health?’ American Journal of Public Health 108, no. 8 (August 2018): 1005–6. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2018.304512.
Kate Nyhan is changing servers@jmcrookston Someday I will stop being so salty about how AJPH sticks a paywall in front of so much of its OLD content that is FREE TO READ in PubMed Central... but today is not that day
Link to read the short paper you recommended without a subscription:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6050826/
Thanks.
Hmm, I guess my citation manager pulled the DOI, which links to the journal page.
I got the paper from PubMed, personally.
@jmcrookston
Strictly speaking I suspect you read the paper on PubMed Central, rather than PubMed per se.
PMC is a database with the full text of papers that are
- subject to funder public access policies
- or in journals that "fully participate" in PMC (including AJPH, with a 24-month embargo)
PubMed is a database with titles, abstracts, and some other article metadata (but not the full text) of
- articles in Medline journals
- articles in PMC
- a little bit of other stuff
Thanks! I usually just referred to them both as PubMed and never looked into what PMC was. Now I know! I knew PubMed was many more documents, now it makes sense why.
Yes, Unpaywall is very useful, I use it all the time.
i often also find articles by searching "title-of-article PDF" or "... DOC".