Weeks after blaming NFL safety Damar Hamlin’s cardiac arrest on COVID-19 vaccines, right-wing media personalities decided to train their latest anti-vaxx conspiracy theories on an MSNBC anchor who just returned to work following a health scare. After being “out of commission” for a month, Yasmin Vossoughian returned to the air this weekend and informed MSNBC … Read more
The volume of COVID misinformation has jumped alarmingly on Twitter, while anti-vaccination networks that had previously been dispersed are already reforming and reorganizing, according to research. Key points: For years, Twitter heavily moderated COVID and anti-vaccine misinformation Within weeks of Elon Musk taking over, this misinformation surged back onto the platform Other research found a … Read more
CheckMate is a weekly newsletter from RMIT FactLab which recaps the latest in the world of fact checking and misinformation, drawing on the work of FactLab and its sister organisation, RMIT ABC Fact Check. You can read the latest edition below, and subscribe to have the next newsletter delivered straight to your inbox. CheckMate October … Read more
Frank Curtin, the organizer of a protest at the Peterborough Police station in August where people called for the citizen’s arrest of officers over their enforcement of COVID-19 measures, faced two new charges in court on Tuesday: videotaping his initial court appearance on Aug. 30 and posting it to YouTube. Court documents show the two … Read more
Editor’s note (September 9, 2022): This edition of CheckMate was produced prior to the death of Queen Elizabeth II. CheckMate is a weekly newsletter from RMIT FactLab which recaps the latest in the world of fact checking and misinformation, drawing on the work of FactLab and its sister organisation, RMIT ABC Fact Check. You can … Read more
CheckMate is a weekly newsletter from RMIT FactLab which recaps the latest in the world of fact checking and misinformation, drawing on the work of FactLab and its sister organisation, RMIT ABC Fact Check. You can read the latest edition below, and subscribe to have the next newsletter delivered straight to your inbox. CheckMate September … Read more
CheckMate is a weekly newsletter from RMIT FactLab which recaps the latest in the world of fact checking and misinformation, drawing on the work of FactLab and its sister organisation, RMIT ABC Fact Check. You can read the latest edition below, and subscribe to have the next newsletter delivered straight to your inbox. CheckMate August … Read more
On Friday, a Pennsylvania anti-vaxxer enraged over the FBI’s search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort allegedly vowed to murder as many federal agents as possible before they got him. “Come and get me you piece of shit feds,” he wrote on social media. “I am going to fucking slaughter you.” On Monday, 46-year-old Adam Bies … Read more
Children became separated from their parents and security guards feared for their safety as an anti-COVID-19 mandate protest in January turned into chaos at a North Queensland shopping centre, a court has heard. Key points: The court was played a video showing Ashley Charles Watson challenging the authority of a police officer Watson was involved … Read more
Children became separated from their parents and security guards feared for their safety as an anti-COVID-19 mandate protest in January turned into chaos at a North Queensland shopping centre, a court has heard. Key points: The court was played a video showing Ashley Charles Watson challenging the authority of a police officer Watson was involved … Read more