And now there is research to confirm this.
In both the lead up to and the immediate aftermath of the US presidential election, President Donald Trump made claims of voter fraud and a rigged election, using all channels available to him, including Twitter. Despite the apparent lack of evidence for these accusations, they have arguably influenced the beliefs of millions of Americans.
Twitter has been a primary means by which the president has sought to set the agenda. Since he first took office, many people have speculated that some of Trump’s tweets were deployed to distract from negative media coverage. For example, when the press reported on the US$25m Trump University settlement, he tweeted about the Hamilton play controversy. When COVID-19 failed to “just go away” but instead took a stranglehold on the US, he tweeted about the “OBAMAGATE!” conspiracy theory.
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This year has seen all of us need a little explainer about what exactly is happening. From what it all means when there s a panic buying craze to whether the police should be armed.
The Feed s Alice Matthews has provided key moments of clarity on some of the most difficult subjects in 2020.
So here s how The Case explained the biggest issues in 2020.
Panic buying: The pandemic pain
The panic buying of essentials like toilet paper at the beginning of the pandemic is something Dr Steven Taylor, author of The Psychology of Pandemics , said was a coping mechanism.
Altech Chemicals Ltd (ASX:ATC) Confirmation of Graphite Particle Coating
Highlights
- New product development targeting lithium-ion battery anode
- Specially designed formulation and coating process
- Potential improvements to lithium-ion battery life, capacity and chargeability
On 23 September 2020, Altech announced that as a result of its ground-breaking research and development work the Company was proceeding to an independent verification phase of its method for the alumina coating of graphite particles. A first phase demonstration was conducted at Curtin University, Western Australia during late November 2020 and resulted in the successful application of a uniform and consistent two to three (2-3) nano-metre (nm) coating of alumina to graphite particles.
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Despite COVID-19 restrictions and the risk of animal to human disease transmission, illegal wildlife trade on social media networks has continued, with wild animals sometimes sold as lockdown pets . Researchers from Oxford Brookes University and the University of Western Australia, having analysed around 20,000 Facebook posts about wild pet trade, are urging increased governance on social media sites in order to curb potential extinctions and reduce the risk of pandemics.
With the current global pandemic of COVID-19, the role of wild animals in emerging infectious diseases (EID) is in the spotlight. Human-animal transmission has been documented in previous virus outbreaks such as SARS and MERS. Several of the early cases of COVID-19 were linked to a wet market in Wuhan, China, although there is, as yet, not enough evidence to conclude how the virus transmitted to humans.
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World-first techniques for predicting breast cancer risk from mammograms that were developed in Melbourne could revolutionise breast screening by allowing it to be tailored to women at minimal extra cost.
Published in the
International Journal of Cancer, the University of Melbourne-led study found two new mammogram-based measures of risk. When these measures are combined, they are more effective in stratifying women in terms of their risk of breast cancer than breast density and all the known genetic risk factors.
Researchers say if successfully adopted, their new measures could substantially improve screening, make it more effective in reducing mortality and less stressful for women, and therefore encourage more to be screened. They could also help address the problem of dense breasts.