FAST THINKING: How the Capitol riot was coordinated online Fast Thinking by Atlantic Council
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The mob that broke into the US Capitol yesterday was aided significantly by online coordination and planning. The team at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab has conducted exhaustive research into how that happened, combing through social media and other networks frequented by the far right. Let’s break down what they found.
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Jared notes that
the far-right groups that appeared at the riot maintain a vigorous online presence on “alternative” social-media platforms such as the Twitter alternative Parler, Gab, MeWe, Zello, and Telegram “where they spread their propaganda” among sympathizers numbering “in the hundreds of thousands and even millions.” They had been publicizing yesterday’s protest on th
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A dangerous new strain of anti-vaxxer
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A NEW DIGITAL BREED OF ANTI-VAX:
Social media companies have been grappling with how to handle anti-vaccination movements for years. But the pandemic has given rise
to a new kind of anti-vax content online that is proving harder for tech platforms to police.
Part of the trouble is that there is limited data around Covid vaccines, and the virus continues to perplex doctors. That makes some narratives harder to refute than claims such as the debunked but persistent assertion that childhood shots cause autism.
Why social media hasn’t been able to shut down vaccine misinformation POLITICO 12/22/2020 By Alexandra S. Levine © Eduardo Munoz/Pool via AP Health experts have been warning about the need to prepare for vaccine misinformation since the early days of the pandemic.
False claims about the dangers of coronavirus vaccines were running rampant on social media even before Americans began receiving their first shots last week and now the months-long rollout to the entire population is giving bad information even more room to fester.
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It started with baseless rumors that the inoculations would kill or sterilize the recipients, alter people’s DNA or fail to keep up with virus mutations. Now it is expanding to more elaborate conspiracy theories in an era already rife with mistrust of government and other institutions. Social media companies are trying to keep up, but in many ways they’re already behind, given the monumental task of combat
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