For starters, let’s get a few things out of the way:
· Quaffing bleach will kill you.
· The COVID vaccine will not turn you into a giant magnet and
· The vaccine does not contain microchips by which Bill Gates can track you.
(Frankly, you are boring, and Gates, who is in the midst of what is turning out to be an ugly divorce, has other things on his mind.)
Please join me in playing whack-a-mole as we bat away online lies, misinformation, and outright stupidity perpetrated by people who should know better. We need you in the trenches, keyboard warriors. As COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths decline in states like Connecticut, the World Health Organization has been warning of a co-current pandemic, an “infodemic of misinformation.” We are awash in misinformation about the pandemic, vaccinations, and the spread of COVID. At a time when we should be celebrating getting through 15 horrible months, we are, instead, swimming in ignorance. In this case, ignorance isn’t bliss. It’s deadly.
This matters, a lot. One study early in the pandemic said 6,000 hospitalizations could have been avoided worldwide had we relied on serious sources. Lies have extended this pandemic, thanks to an army of bots enabled by gullible people.
A new study from the University of California San Diego, George Washington University and Johns Hopkins University says that bad bots - online products of artificial intelligence that are programmed to sow mistrust and misinformation -- are the primary sources for nonsense about the pandemic. They are effective in part because bots move with lightning speed to share information. The study said that Facebook bots average about 4.28 seconds between link shares, shares, compared to an average of...
from News https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Campbell-The-misinformation-pandemic-isn-t-16242384.php
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