Warning labels from fact checkers work — even if you don’t trust them
September 02, 2024 05:00 ET
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MIT Sloan School of Management
Cambridge, MA, Sept. 02, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Do you trust fact-checkers? It might not matter. A new Nature Human Behaviour paper from MIT Sloan School of Management PhD candidate Cameron Martel...
Flexible morals: A key reason American voters support divisive misinformation
April 16, 2024 07:05 ET
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MIT Sloan School of Management
Houston, Texas and Cambridge, Mass., April 16, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Over the last decade or so, concern has grown over the tendency for Americans to support their favorite politicians even when...
How news producers can drive consumers toward misinformation - even when they want the truth
March 05, 2024 07:03 ET
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MIT Sloan School of Management
Cambridge, MA, March 05, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In a new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), MIT Sloan School of Management professor David Rand and...
Physician Poll: Medical Misinformation Is Harming Patients' Health
March 29, 2023 00:24 ET
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de Beaumont Foundation
Bethesda, Maryland, March 29, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In a new poll, nearly three in four physicians said medical misinformation has hindered their ability to treat COVID-19 patients and has harmed...
NEW RESEARCH: Four in ten Canadians are exposed to online hate speech on at least a monthly basis, survey finds
March 09, 2023 07:34 ET
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The Brookfield Institute for Innovation + Entrepreneurship
Toronto, CANADA, March 09, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Twenty per cent of Canadians surveyed reported seeing online hate speech on a monthly basis, while 16 percent were exposed weekly. Five percent...
Medical Board’s ‘Anti-disinformation’ Attack Described in Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons
December 06, 2022 10:02 ET
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Association of American Physicians and Surgeons
TUCSON, Ariz., Dec. 06, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Advocacy groups have launched a nationwide campaign promoting delicensure of doctors who allegedly disseminate mis- or disinformation related to the...
Rock Band Push Puppets Releases 'October Surprise' Music Video About Disinformation
October 18, 2022 04:00 ET
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Waterweight Music Ltd.
CHICAGO, Oct. 18, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Just in time for the midterm elections, Push Puppets, a Waterweight Music Ltd. recording artist, has released an animated lyric video for the song "October...
Lawsuit Challenges Chilling of Physicians’ Free Speech
September 13, 2022 14:09 ET
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Association of American Physicians and Surgeons
TUCSON, Ariz., Sept. 13, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Medical specialty boards are attempting to silence physicians who offer nonapproved COVID-19 treatment, or who counsel about adverse effects of...
More Than 1,000 Scientists and Physicians Protest Specialty Boards' Actions Against Dissenting Physicians
September 13, 2022 13:00 ET
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Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons
TUCSON, Ariz., Sept. 13, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Medical specialty boards are destroying their own credibility by threatening to decertify some of their most experienced and widely published...
8 out of 10 Canadians are concerned about the impact of misinformation on parents’ decisions about their child’s health
June 09, 2022 07:59 ET
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Children’s Healthcare Canada
OTTAWA, Ontario, June 09, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- After more than two years of pushing through a global pandemic, parents continue to grapple with mis- and disinformation about children’s health,...