There’s an outbreak of illnesses linked to people drinking raw milk in Florida. Raw milk is unpasteurized animal milk that is a common source of foodborne illnesses, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
WUSF / Health News Florida
The B.C. Wildfire Service is sounding the alarm on a rise in AI-generated wildfire images, which it says are contributing to online misinformation and exacerbating stressful situations. The service shared two such AI-generated images in a social media post on Tuesday, both of which it says were shared by other accounts and were inaccurately portraying fire situations.
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
The global health community faces a deepening challenge — not only from infectious diseases but also from a pandemic of misinformation. The USA, long a cornerstone of global health leadership, has become an unexpected source of global instability in vaccination confidence.
The Lancet
Facing a sea of state troopers, Charles Mauldin was near the front line of voting rights marchers who strode across the now-infamous Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on March 7, 1965. The violence that awaited them shocked the nation and galvanized support for the passage of the U.S. Voting Rights Act a few months later.
The Associated Press
When a hoax about Donald Trump went viral at the funeral of Pope Francis, I went on social media to try to set the record straight. I’m a volunteer for community notes, a program Mark Zuckerberg announced in January that replaces fact-checkers with users to counter falsehoods on Facebook, Instagram and Threads.
The Washington Post
Sixty years ago this week, a landmark piece of voting rights legislation was signed into law — a policy that has aimed to course-correct America’s wobbled experiment of representative democracy.
The 19th
For the past decade, Sughra Ayaz has traveled door to door in southeastern Pakistan, pleading with parents to allow children to be vaccinated against polio as part of a global campaign to wipe out the paralytic disease. She hears their demands and fears. Some are practical – families need basics like food and water more than vaccines. Others are simply unfounded – the oral doses are meant to sterilize their kids.
The Associated Press
Facebook and Instagram owner Meta late last month that it will stop all political advertising in the European Union by October, blaming legal uncertainty over new rules designed to increase transparency in election campaigns.
The Associated Press
Misinformation is found in every element of our online lives. It ranges from fake products available to buy, fake lifestyle posts on social media accounts and fake news about health and politics.
The Conversation
From the moment the news broke of a mass shooting on Park Avenue on Monday, misinformation careened through social media, declaring the massacre an act of Islamic terrorism or blaming Zohran Mamdani, who is seeking to become the city’s first Muslim mayor.
The New York Times
A recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration panel discussing the use of antidepressants during pregnancy largely amounted to misinformation or facts taken out of context, according to several psychiatrists who tuned in to the meeting.
NBC News
Traditional news media are losing influence in the U.S., with, for the first time, most people accessing news via social media and video networks.
Forbes / Reuters Institute
A child's death from measles has sparked urgent calls from British public health officials to get children vaccinated, as the UK faces an onslaught of misinformation on social media, much of it from the United States.
Agence France-Presse
Falling for clickbait is easy these days, especially for those who mainly get their news through social media. Have you ever noticed your feed littered with articles that look alike?
Binghamton University
Nedzad Avdic stood on a gravel plateau with four men and boys with their hands tied behind their backs, preparing for death. Just 17, Avdic had been captured by Bosnian Serb forces days earlier. Now, he stood yards from an execution squad.
NBC News
In 2021, future vice president JD Vance delivered a speech titled “The Universities Are the Enemy.” A few years later, during his campaign, Donald Trump called college leaders ‘Marxist maniacs.’ Now their administration is using the full force of the federal government to investigate long-standing conservative complaints about universities, making sweeping demands and cutting billions of dollars in funding.
The Washington Post
Psychological warfare has no known origin story. By the time the Chinese classic The Art of War was written, likely 2,500 years ago, the practice was already widely used. In the 19th century, militaries realized that uncertainty and chaos could be weaponized: When an enemy is confused by multiple conflicting accounts of what’s happening, they are vulnerable and easily manipulated.
Greater Good Magazine
Manipulating public perception for financial gain is nothing new. A striking example is the 1835 “Great Moon Hoax,” when The Sun, a New York newspaper, falsely claimed the discovery of lunar civilizations – boosting its sales and reputation before later admitting to the deception.
World Economic Forum
Days before Oklahoma Democrats were planning to elect a party leader, phones started buzzing. A recording began circulating of a voice, claiming to be state Rep. John Waldron, making inflammatory racial remarks about his opponent for party chair. A local news publication jumped on the story. Except Waldron, who eventually won the election, said it wasn’t him.
The Oklahoman
The Environmental Protection Agency last week said it has placed 139 employees on leave after they signed a ‘declaration of dissent’ accusing the agency of "unraveling" health and environmental protections for political reasons. The letter and EPA pushback escalates internal and public disputes over the agency's deregulatory moves under President Trump.
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