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Snurb — Saturday 16 October 2021 11:33

COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories in Social, Fringe, and Mainstream Media: A Trilogy of Articles, and More

Politics | Government | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | Social Media | Facebook | ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society | Evaluating the Challenge of ‘Fake News’ and Other Malinformation (ARC Discovery) |

I’ve mentioned some of these here before, but I’m very happy to say that my QUT Digital Media Research Centre colleagues Edward Hurcombe, Stephen Harrington, and I have now completed our trilogy of articles that investigated the dissemination of the baseless and nonsensical conspiracy theory that the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic was somehow related to 5G mobile telephony technology from its origins in obscure conspiracist sites and groups through social and fringe media to mainstream coverage. For a while, such dissemination was so widespread that it even resulted in physical attacks against mobile phone towers and technicians in the …

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Snurb — Saturday 24 April 2021 13:04

Social Media and the News: Approaches to the Spread of (Mis)information (Integrity 2021)

Politics | Industrial Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | 'Big Data' | Social Media | Facebook | Social Media Network Mapping | Twitter | QUT Digital Media Research Centre | ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society | Evaluating the Challenge of ‘Fake News’ and Other Malinformation (ARC Discovery) | Integrity 2021 |

Integrity 2021

Social Media and the News: Approaches to the Spread of (Mis)information

Axel Bruns

  • 12 Mar. 2021 – Integrity 2021: Integrity in Social Networks and Media workshop at the 14th ACM Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) in Jerusalem, Israel
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