For centuries, Iceland has tended to be off the world’s beaten path. It’s an island in the North Atlantic, home today to about 400,000 people. Its language is spoken in large numbers nowhere else. These factors, combined with higher standards of living and education attainment, tend to protect Icelanders from the tide of misinformation that has flooded other countries, including the U.S.
Poynter Institute
Mike Evans knew something had to change. As the lead instructor for American Government 101 at Georgia State University in 2021, Evans had watched his students over the years show up with fewer facts and more conspiracy theories. They arrive with bold, often misleading beliefs shaped by hours spent each day on TikTok, YouTube and Instagram.
The Conversation
Javier Gallardo likes to start his morning watching a classical music programme on television - it is part of his routine, and puts him in the right mood for the day before going to work driving trucks. But one Monday in June, he turned on the television and, instead of music, the screen was filled with images of a warzone. A news report was playing on a channel he had never heard of.
BBC
Misinformation and disinformation in healthcare has the potential to threaten patient safety by spreading falsehoods that impact decision-making. It also undermines the physician-patient relationship, making it harder for physicians to provide effective, trusted care.
The Physicians Foundation
More than 750 current and former staff members of HHS are calling on Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to stop ‘spreading inaccurate health information’ and do more to protect public health professionals in the wake of a shooting at the headquarters of the CDC in Atlanta earlier this month.
The Hill
Multiple top reporters and columnists are leaving The Arizona Republic — and it’s unclear how many more will follow after Gannett issued buyout offers in newsrooms across the country.
Arizona Mirror
In the age of misinformation, food literacy isn’t just about health – it’s a strategic imperative for business, climate, and public trust. Misinformation is eroding public health, distorting climate-smart food strategies, and warping market behavior. This isn’t just an information problem but a business risk and investment threat.
Forbes
When Kari Lake, a special advisor to the Agency for Global Media, went on Eric Bolling’s '“Real America’s Voice” last month and promised to personally escort certain federal employees to the airport, she wasn’t talking about gang leaders or cartel bosses. Her targets were multilingual journalists.
The Integrity Project
Police officer David Rose was killed last week by a suspected 30-year-old gunman at a chaotic scene surrounding the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. According to the alleged shooter’s father and neighbors, he was consumed by anti-vaccine conspiracy theories.
The Integrity Project
This past Friday, a gunman stood across the street from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s main campus in Atlanta and fired round after round into the buildings where the nation's top public health scientists work. National Public Radio tell us why one in three CDC staffers report having been harassed or threatened due to their work since the onset of COVID-19 pandemic.
National Public Radio
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
