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Mashup Score: 10Is it real or made by AI? Europe wants a label for that as it fights disinformation - 11 month(s) ago
The European Union is pushing online platforms like Google and Meta to step up the fight against false information by adding labels to text, photos and other content generated by artificial intelligence, a top official said Monday.
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Mashup Score: 4Some hoped a new oral vaccine would solve all the polio campaign’s problems. Reality is settling in - 11 month(s) ago
Millions of doses into the rollout of a new polio vaccine, it is apparent that the failure to vaccinate a sufficient proportion of children against the disease will not be magically solved by the vaccine.
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Some hoped a new oral vaccine would solve all the polio campaign’s problems. Reality is settling in https://t.co/xxXb3ie4l3 by @HelenBranswell via @statnews "It’s all about coverage — getting the vaccine into the mouths of children.” #VaccinesWork #ScienceUpFirst
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Mashup Score: 10It’s time to leave the Paleo Diet in the past: Recent studies have failed to support its claims - 11 month(s) ago
The Paleo Diet is popular, but research has yet to substantiate its purported health benefits. As evolutionary anthropologists, here’s why we think it’s time to leave the Paleo Diet in the past.
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It’s time to leave the #Paleo Diet in past: Recent studies have failed to support its claims https://t.co/wLiD8T7cU0 by @profmarkcollard via @ConversationCA "...based on a flawed premise & faulty data." "...people following it might just be wasting money." #ScienceUpFirst
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Mashup Score: 2Are Abortion Pills Safe? Here’s the Evidence. - 11 month(s) ago
The Times reviewed 101 studies of medication abortion, spanning continents and decades. All concluded that the pills are a safe method for terminating a pregnancy.
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The embrace of abortion #misinformation is doing real damage – especially among Republicans and (sigh) men. Research shows abortion medication safe (https://t.co/kY86k3NhfM by @amyswalk et al) via @KFF cc @DrJenGunter @picardonhealth #ScienceUpFirst https://t.co/yXFACn0gBA https://t.co/afRP6pYkWt
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Mashup Score: 5Enhancing Trust in Science and Democracy in an Age of Misinformation - 12 month(s) ago
Scientists and elected leaders must join forces to inform the public’s discretion through improved communication and education.
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Misinformation: "distorting public deliberation and undermining trust in science as well as democracy itself." Enhancing Trust in Science and Democracy in an Age of Misinformation https://t.co/phzdsadRrz by @Marcia4Science & @michaelcrow #ScienceUpFirst
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Mashup Score: 8Challenging Misinformation on Social Media: Users' Perceptions and Misperceptions and their Impact on the Willingness to Challenge - 12 month(s) ago
Our survey included 250 UK-based social media users and aimed to identify the factors that contribute to users’ reluctance to challenge misinformation.
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"...people both overestimate the damage a correction will cause to their relationships and believe that correcting others is more futile than it is." Interesting [preprint] study finds misperceptions about the value & harms of debunking https://t.co/uY99DZazYU #ScienceUpFirst https://t.co/lR0C8J43Dt
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Mashup Score: 3What is being done to curb spread of 'misinformation'? - 12 month(s) ago
RTÉ’s Media Correspondent Sinéad Crowley examines issues around media literacy and online safety.
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What is being done to curb spread of '#misinformation'? https://t.co/ETsFcXhHoB by @SineadCrowley via @rte "The capacity for disinformation to spread is also heightened if the receiver is already inclined to believe it, or has a bias towards believing it." #ScienceUpFirst
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Mashup Score: 25Tackling misinformation with Minecraft: How these B.C. students are learning to separate fact from fiction | CBC News - 12 month(s) ago
Students at a Coquitlam middle school are learning about the dangers of online misinformation using tools to help spot the difference between fact and fiction.
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Tackling #misinformation with Minecraft: How these B.C. students are learning to separate fact from fiction https://t.co/xnxTHqlsf5 by @jphballard Teaching creative thinking & media literacy essential! Misinformation a generational challenge. #ScienceUpFirst
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Mashup Score: 9Equipping health workers, media to fight misinformation on cholera - 12 month(s) ago
Brazzaville/Lilongwe – When Malawian journalist Suwira Wanda participated in a recent training to sensitize the national media organizations to misinformation, she learnt for the first time that it is possible to be asymptomatic for cholera, but still infect others through contaminated water. It was crucial training for the journalist at Zodiak, one of the country’s leading media outlets, during…
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Goal: “To detect, disrupt and counter misinformation” "Equipping health workers, media to fight misinformation on cholera" https://t.co/VUyIb8if4I via @WHO @WHOAFRO #ScienceUpFirst
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Mashup Score: 26WHO warns against bias, misinformation in using AI in healthcare - 12 month(s) ago
The World Health Organization called for caution on Tuesday in using artificial intelligence for public healthcare, saying data used by AI to reach decisions could be biased or misused.
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WHO warns against bias, misinformation in using AI in healthcare https://t.co/kvad0CCtof "The WHO said in a statement the data used to train AI may be biased and generate misleading or inaccurate information..." #ScienceUpFirst
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Is it real or made by AI? Europe wants a label for that as it fights disinformation https://t.co/TzXrr4HIHZ AI = “fresh challenges for the fight against disinformation.” Calling for "labels to text, photos & other content generated by artificial intelligence." #ScienceUpFirst