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“I have flagged a small number of fake news items (around 5G towers) on social media platforms and no action has been taken.” – Female, 30-39, South West England Covid-19 misinformation has been widely recognised as a serious challenge to...
The public conversation around the source of Covid-19 has been laced with worrying undertones. Almost as soon as the global scale of the pandemic became apparent, conspiracies linking the virus to 5G lit up the internet. Phone masts were burned,...
With talk of new antibody tests almost available to use and the search for a vaccine underway, medical research is at the fore of public conversation, with millions across the globe following every development. We know that the way researchers and...
By Daniel Alphonsus “Ripping apart the social fabric” and “destroying how society works”. These apocalyptic portrayals of social media were once the dirge of neo-luddites. Today they are the words of Chamath Palihapitiya, a Silicon Valley titan and one of...
On February 25th 2017, Lily Allen posted a poll to her Twitter followers, asking who they felt more marginalised by, pensioners or Muslims. The poll was a joke, meant to highlight stereotypes towards the Muslim community, however, it became, perhaps...
