misinformation
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Experts Give Five Tips for Black Parents Struggling to Help Kids Cope With Fear of Trump Win
If you have feelings of anger and fear right now, your kids probably do too.
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Racists Are Attacking Black and Brown Folks in UK Riots, Here’s Why It Could Spill Into the U.S. Very Soon
A violent incident set off weeks of fascist mobs in Britain. Could the coming election do the same?
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Run for Something Political Director Quentin Savwoir Wants Us To Fight To Preserve Our Democratic Process
The political director discusses preserving Democratic policies, battling misinformation, and handling discourse.
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Experts Say Black Voters are Targeted by Misinformation Campaigns
Social media accounts have been used to spread disinformation ahead of elections to turn Black voters away from the polls.
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Banned From Twitter and Facebook for COVID-19 Misinformation
Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene ran to social platform GETTR to complain about the "censorship."
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As Delta Variant Spreads, Surgeon General Calls Misinformation an ‘Urgent Threat’ to Public Safety
The advisory comes as the delta variant of COVID-19 is surging in states with low vaccination rates.
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Dr. Anthony Fauci Speaks to The Root About the COVID-19 Vaccines
For Black people, medical care in this country has been fraught with a tangled history of lack of access and an inherent mistrust in a system that has both experimented on Black bodies and at times ignored the pleas and complaints of Black people who have had varying experiences with medical professionals who either don’t…
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All Late: Google Has Finally Decided to Spend a Little Money to Combat Fake News
Remember how five years ago we were all like “Man, tech companies should really do something about misinformation,” and tech companies were like “Nahhhh, what’s the worst that could happen?” Well, the worst has happened and now Google is contributing more than $29 million to an organization intended to combat misinformation online. According to ABC…