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Book Synopsis Fighting Misinformation During COVID-19 by : Madeline Rae
Download or read book Fighting Misinformation During COVID-19 written by Madeline Rae and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This case looks at the spate of misinformation and false claims for cures and treatments that have erupted during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The case asks students to discuss the ethics in false advertising and profiteering, what a company's responsibility is to disavow false claims, and how future misinformation can be prevented.
Book Synopsis Fighting Misinformation in Social Media During COVID 19 by : Arvin Subramanian
Download or read book Fighting Misinformation in Social Media During COVID 19 written by Arvin Subramanian and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purpose:There is so much misinformation, deception, and "false news" about COVID-19 that the World Health Organization's director-general has dubbed it an "infodemic". Social media is used as a tool for spreading this misinformation. Vulnerable and marginalized people are misled, because of the same and they are under a lot of stress. In this paper, we try to come with a solution, a tool to fight this infodemic. With the available data from credible sources, we attempt to verify the credibility of a news item shared on social media.Methodology:The study uses beautifulsoup, a web scraping library to scrape the headline and description of the social media article. The model makes use of library such as scikit learn, pandas, matplotlib, numpy for machine learning to determine whether the shared social media article is factually correct. The model makes use of dataset 'Fake News by Kaggle', available on the internet to verify the social media article. The dataset used in the study predicts the fake news with 96 percent accuracy.Findings:The study contributes the invention of the tool - The TruthFinder, that analyses the factual correctness of social media articles related to COVID 19 instantly. The Truthfinder operates on a very simple algorithm. Once the link of the social media article is given as input. The headline and the description of the article is extracted and inserted in to the machine learning model. Using the data set that is available, the social media article is factually checked. In case, the article is considered fake, related COVID 19 articles from trustable sources are shared to the user.Implications:The model presented in the study is currently a proof of concept. However, in future the authors are working to develop a fully functional mobile app based on the model. This app will be useful to combat the misinformation spread about COVID 19, related to faulty remedies, fear mongering about vaccines and side effects. Along with debunking of false news, Truth Finder also disseminates factually correct articles that are related to the fake news shared. So, that the social media user is better informed to combat the infodemic in future, related to COVID 19.
Book Synopsis COVID-19 Disinformation: A Multi-National, Whole of Society Perspective by : Ritu Gill
Download or read book COVID-19 Disinformation: A Multi-National, Whole of Society Perspective written by Ritu Gill and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The COVID-19 pandemic is not only a threat to our health and economy, but also has strong implications for defence and security. Indeed, defence leaders have highlighted a second fight surrounding the spread of COVID-19, namely disinformation and preparing to face adversaries willing to exploit the public health crisis for nefarious purposes. The current pandemic is a breeding ground for the propagation of disinformation, as it represents the first major global health event in which large social media platforms have become the main distributor of information. This multi-national edited volume consists of contributions from Defence Science, academia and industry, including NATO Headquarters, United States, Netherlands, Singapore, United Kingdom and Norway. The content is aimed at a diverse audience, including NATO members, researchers from defence and security organizations, academics, and militaries including analysts and practitioners, as well as policy makers. This volume focuses on various aspects of COVID-19 disinformation, including identifying global dominant disinformation narratives and the methods used to spread disinformation, examining COVID-19 disinformation within the broader context of the cognitive domain, examining the psychological effects of COVID-19 disinformation and COVID-19 disinformation on instant messaging platforms, along with examining various countermeasures to disinformation.
Book Synopsis Fighting the COVID-19 Pandemic by : Manal Mohammad Baddour
Download or read book Fighting the COVID-19 Pandemic written by Manal Mohammad Baddour and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-12-08 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the past two years, the world has been fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, which has had many negative effects on people’s quality of life, physical health, and mental health. Nobody is oblivious to the general information related to the virus or the deleterious health effects it has been linked to, yet there is a lot more to it than the general knowledge. In this book, we shed light on the virus itself and its properties, epidemiology, immune response, various clinical scenarios and consequences, and diagnostic and management dilemmas. Finally, we discuss COVID vaccines and the related myths and misinformation that have led to vaccine hesitancy and mistrust.
Book Synopsis The Psychology of Fake News by : Rainer Greifeneder
Download or read book The Psychology of Fake News written by Rainer Greifeneder and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-13 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the phenomenon of fake news by bringing together leading experts from different fields within psychology and related areas, and explores what has become a prominent feature of public discourse since the first Brexit referendum and the 2016 US election campaign. Dealing with misinformation is important in many areas of daily life, including politics, the marketplace, health communication, journalism, education, and science. In a general climate where facts and misinformation blur, and are intentionally blurred, this book asks what determines whether people accept and share (mis)information, and what can be done to counter misinformation? All three of these aspects need to be understood in the context of online social networks, which have fundamentally changed the way information is produced, consumed, and transmitted. The contributions within this volume summarize the most up-to-date empirical findings, theories, and applications and discuss cutting-edge ideas and future directions of interventions to counter fake news. Also providing guidance on how to handle misinformation in an age of “alternative facts”, this is a fascinating and vital reading for students and academics in psychology, communication, and political science and for professionals including policy makers and journalists.
Book Synopsis Behavioural Public Policy by : Adam Oliver
Download or read book Behavioural Public Policy written by Adam Oliver and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this accessible collection, leading academic economists, psychologists and philosophers apply behavioural economic findings to practical policy concerns.
Book Synopsis The Curious Person's Guide to Fighting Fake News by : David G. McAfee
Download or read book The Curious Person's Guide to Fighting Fake News written by David G. McAfee and published by Pitchstone Publishing (US&CA). This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With each passing day the potential reach of a single false news story—and its ability to negatively impact all of us—grows in both size and scope. Although politicians, activists, and ordinary citizens regularly complain about deceptive or biased news reports, they tend to define fake news as anything with which they happen to disagree, thus compounding the problem even further. Seeking to bring some much-needed clarity to the subject, journalist David G. McAfee documents the myriad definitions of "fake news" and its various incarnations throughout history, from ideologically motivated disinformation operations to commercially motivated misinformation campaigns. Demonstrating that we are all culpable in the creation of the current pandemic, he presents a number of practical and actionable suggestions for combating it. In the end, however, he argues that each of us, no matter our political bent, have an important role to play in curbing the insidious spread and most dangerous effects of fake news.
Download or read book Covid-19 written by Joseph Lister and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowing all the hard facts is part of fighting and surviving the pandemic. Each day, we see a continued increase in the number of cases and deaths brought about by the COVID 19 pandemic. It has triggered a multitude of feelings, including stress, paranoia, and, for some, a passive attitude. On top of this, the quality of news the general populace consumes through mainstream and social media has led to stirred emotions regardless of race, social status, and location. Distinguishing the truth from the myths becomes harder with each passing day. Fight misinformation and gain a better understanding of the current climate with COVID-19: The Fear and Power of Science! COVID-19: The Fear and Power of Science dissects conspiracy theories to debunk them using iron-clad research. Let this book remove any junk misinformation you've picked up and replace it with factual knowledge you can use to spread awareness and make informed decisions regarding your own health. Our book will help learn to scrutinize all the information you receive with an eye for inconsistencies. Now's the time to be a beacon of hope, truth, and courage by knowing the true nature of this pandemic and understanding what you need to prepare for the future. Each chapter of this book contains potentially lifesaving information and topics covering timely issues. Learn how diseases become classified as a pandemic and analyze its salient and indirect effects to various industries worldwide. In this book, you'll encounter: ✅ Facts and figures on COVID-19 to interpret ✅ Understand the science behind the pandemic ✅ An explanation of the rise and fall of services, products, and companies ✅ Ways on how you can protect your health while shedding light on the truth behind COVID-19 Transform your concern and fear into hope and optimism. Add COVID-19: The Power of Fear and Science to your cart TODAY!
Book Synopsis Miscommunicating the COVID-19 Pandemic by : Ran Wei
Download or read book Miscommunicating the COVID-19 Pandemic written by Ran Wei and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-08 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tackles the infodemic—the rapid, widespread diffusion of false, misleading, or inaccurate information about the disease and its ramifications—triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. With a focus on four Asian societies, the book compares and analyzes the spread of COVID-19 misinformation and its broad impacts on the public in Beijing, Hong Kong, Taipei, and Singapore. Providing both a comprehensive overview of the phenomenon of misinformation and cross-societal analyses of patterns, the book features in-depth analyses of the prevalence of COVID-19 misinformation and engagement and explores its consequences in an Asian context. The book sheds lights on these key questions: What types of infodemic messages circulate widely on popular social media platforms? What factors account for exposure to and engagement with debunked yet popular COVID-19 misinformation? How does exposure to widely circulated COVID-19 misinformation affect people’s beliefs, attitudes, and adoption of preventive measures to cope with the pandemic? How do macro social differences condition the diffusion and impacts of COVID-19 misinformation? What intervention strategies can counter the misinformation? Presenting scientific insights and empirical findings on the pressing issues about infodemic, this book will be of great interest to students and researchers of communication studies, political science, public health, crisis communication, and Asian Studies, as well as policymakers and practitioners who wish to acquire cutting-edge, evidence-based knowledge about combating misinformation during a global pandemic.
Book Synopsis This Is Not Propaganda by : Peter Pomerantsev
Download or read book This Is Not Propaganda written by Peter Pomerantsev and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how the perception of truth has been weaponized in modern politics with this "insightful" account of propaganda in Russia and beyond during the age of disinformation (New York Times). When information is a weapon, every opinion is an act of war. We live in a world of influence operations run amok, where dark ads, psyops, hacks, bots, soft facts, ISIS, Putin, trolls, and Trump seek to shape our very reality. In this surreal atmosphere created to disorient us and undermine our sense of truth, we've lost not only our grip on peace and democracy -- but our very notion of what those words even mean. Peter Pomerantsev takes us to the front lines of the disinformation age, where he meets Twitter revolutionaries and pop-up populists, "behavioral change" salesmen, Jihadi fanboys, Identitarians, truth cops, and many others. Forty years after his dissident parents were pursued by the KGB, Pomerantsev finds the Kremlin re-emerging as a great propaganda power. His research takes him back to Russia -- but the answers he finds there are not what he expected. Blending reportage, family history, and intellectual adventure, This Is Not Propaganda explores how we can reimagine our politics and ourselves when reality seems to be coming apart.
Book Synopsis The COVID-19 Catastrophe by : Richard Horton
Download or read book The COVID-19 Catastrophe written by Richard Horton and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-07-13 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global response to the COVID-19 pandemic is the greatest science policy failure in a generation. We knew this was coming. Warnings about the threat of a new pandemic have been made repeatedly since the 1980s and it was clear in January that a dangerous new virus was causing a devastating human tragedy in China. And yet the world ignored the warnings. Why? In this short and hard-hitting book, Richard Horton, editor of the medical journal The Lancet, scrutinizes the actions that governments around the world took – and failed to take – as the virus spread from its origins in Wuhan to the global pandemic that it is today. He shows that many Western governments and their scientific advisors made assumptions about the virus and its lethality that turned out to be mistaken. Valuable time was lost while the virus spread unchecked, leaving health systems unprepared for the avalanche of infections that followed. Drawing on his own scientific and medical expertise, Horton outlines the measures that need to be put in place, at both national and international levels, to prevent this kind of catastrophe from happening again. Were supposed to be living in an era where human beings have become the dominant influence on the environment, but COVID-19 has revealed the fragility of our societies and the speed with which our systems can come crashing down. We need to learn the lessons of this pandemic and we need to learn them fast because the next pandemic may arrive sooner than we think.
Download or read book Myths written by Olabode Omotoso and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Myths are widely dispersed but false ideologies or misconceptions. With the thousands of deaths recorded daily and the negative toll of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on public health, national economy, and human interaction, it remains surprising how people are still being swayed by conspiracy theories. Due to the novelty of the disease, the quest for an answer, what works, and what does not work gave room for the propagation of misinformation, especially on social media. Identifying and debunking myths is very important in managing disease outbreak, since myths can negatively influence the response of people to preventive and containment strategies. Major proponents of COVID-19 myths have promoted their falsehood on the guise that it is a biological weapon engineered to control the world population. Others have also falsely claimed the use of antibiotics or other antiviral drugs in the treatment of COVID-19 and that COVID-19 is no worse than the common flu or it is just the disease of the elderly. This has promoted refusal to take up the COVID-19 vaccine and increased non-adherence to the preventive guidelines. Myths have been a major stumbling block to curtailing the menace of COVID-19. All hands must be on deck to fight this.
Book Synopsis Combating Online Hostile Posts in Regional Languages during Emergency Situation by : Tanmoy Chakraborty
Download or read book Combating Online Hostile Posts in Regional Languages during Emergency Situation written by Tanmoy Chakraborty and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-04-08 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes selected and revised papers from the First International Workshop on Combating Online Hostile Posts in Regional Languages during Emergency Situation, CONSTRAINT 2021, Collocated with AAAI 2021, held as virtual event, in February 2021. The 14 full papers and 9 short papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 62 qualified submissions. The papers present interdisciplinary approaches on multilingual social media analytics and non-conventional ways of combating online hostile posts.
Book Synopsis Calling Bullshit by : Carl T. Bergstrom
Download or read book Calling Bullshit written by Carl T. Bergstrom and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bullshit isn’t what it used to be. Now, two science professors give us the tools to dismantle misinformation and think clearly in a world of fake news and bad data. “A modern classic . . . a straight-talking survival guide to the mean streets of a dying democracy and a global pandemic.”—Wired Misinformation, disinformation, and fake news abound and it’s increasingly difficult to know what’s true. Our media environment has become hyperpartisan. Science is conducted by press release. Startup culture elevates bullshit to high art. We are fairly well equipped to spot the sort of old-school bullshit that is based in fancy rhetoric and weasel words, but most of us don’t feel qualified to challenge the avalanche of new-school bullshit presented in the language of math, science, or statistics. In Calling Bullshit, Professors Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West give us a set of powerful tools to cut through the most intimidating data. You don’t need a lot of technical expertise to call out problems with data. Are the numbers or results too good or too dramatic to be true? Is the claim comparing like with like? Is it confirming your personal bias? Drawing on a deep well of expertise in statistics and computational biology, Bergstrom and West exuberantly unpack examples of selection bias and muddled data visualization, distinguish between correlation and causation, and examine the susceptibility of science to modern bullshit. We have always needed people who call bullshit when necessary, whether within a circle of friends, a community of scholars, or the citizenry of a nation. Now that bullshit has evolved, we need to relearn the art of skepticism.
Book Synopsis Health Literacy by : Who Regional Office for Europe
Download or read book Health Literacy written by Who Regional Office for Europe and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As societies grow more complex and people are increasingly bombarded with health information and misinformation, health literacy becomes essential. People with strong health literacy skills enjoy better health and well-being, while those with weaker skills tend to engage in riskier behavior and have poorer health. With evidence from the recent European Health Literacy Survey, this report identifies practical and effective ways public health and other sector authorities and advocates can strengthen health literacy in a variety of settings, including educational settings, workplaces, marketplaces, health systems, new and traditional media and political arenas. The report can be used as a tool for spreading awareness, stimulating debate and research and, above all, for informing policy development and action.
Book Synopsis Journalism, fake news & disinformation by : Ireton, Cherilyn
Download or read book Journalism, fake news & disinformation written by Ireton, Cherilyn and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-17 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Drowning in the Infodemic by : Andrew Carr
Download or read book Drowning in the Infodemic written by Andrew Carr and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
