The Most Popular Health Articles of 2018, a Scientific Credibility Review
News about health and medicine touch the lives of many people, therefore they often become highly circulated on the Internet.…
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False claims of a coming ice age spread through ecosystem of unreliable news sites, blogs, and social media accounts
Similar claims that we would be heading towards an imminent “mini ice age” were also repeated without verification throughout a network of unreliable outlets for climate news including Sputnik, The Sun, Fox News, and numerous hyper-partisan blogs such as Zero Hedge, Principia Scientific, IceAgeNow, Alien-Star…
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False claim that global warming is natural propagates in a climate misinformation echo-chamber
The diagram below shows that the articles mostly rely heavily on each other—like in an echo chamber—with very few outside sources included in the reporting. A first wave of “reporting” appeared in The Spectator, The Daily Caller, The Daily Wire, and Breitbart, which were then largely copied and pasted in a second wave of posts with larger audiences…
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How the blogosphere spread and amplified the Daily Mail’s unsupported allegations of climate data manipulation
Early last month, British tabloid the Daily Mail published an article accusing the former director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration…