Veritasium Video (4 February 2021) - I asked Bill Gates What's The next Crisis

Video title:

I asked Bill Gates What's The next Crisis

Published:

Veritasium, 4 February 2021 (via YouTube)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Grv1RJkdyqI&feature=youtu.be

Duration:

13:13

From the video description:

I got the chance to interview Bill Gates so I asked him: Will Covid-19 be the last pandemic? How does he deal with misinformation and conspiracy theories? And what is the next disaster? 

 

The Gates Foundation Annual Letter (2021) is here: https://ve42.co/BG21

Research led by University of Cape Town, South Africa - UCT’s Herman Wasserman leads global study on disinformation

Title:

UCT’s Herman Wasserman leads global study on disinformation

 

Author:

Carla Bernardo

 

Published:

University of Cape Town (UCT), 26 January 2021

https://www.news.uct.ac.za/article/-2021-01-26-ucts-herman-wasserman-leads-global-study-on-disinformation

 

From the article:

Professor Herman Wasserman from the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Centre for Film and Media Studies (CFMS) will embark on an international study on the information disorder in the Global South, with funds of approximately R4.5 million from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC).

Opinion (STAT, 27 April 2020) - Scientists who express different views on Covid-19 should be heard, not demonized

Title:
Scientists who express different views on Covid-19 should be heard, not demonized

Authors:
Vinay Prasad & Jeffrey S. Flier

Published:
STAT, 27 April 2020

From the opinion piece:
"When major decisions must be made amid high scientific uncertainty, as is the case with Covid-19, we can’t afford to silence or demonize professional colleagues with heterodox views. Even worse, we can’t allow questions of science, medicine, and public health to become captives of tribalized politics. Today, more than ever, we need vigorous academic debate."

To read this article:
https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/27/hear-scientists-different-views-covid-19-dont-attack-them/

Short Article (April 2020) - WhatsApp tightens sharing limits to curb virus misinformation

Title:
WhatsApp tightens sharing limits to curb virus misinformation

Published:
Tech Xplore, 7 April 2020

From the article:
"WhatsApp on Tuesday placed new limits on message forwarding as part of an effort to curb the spread of misinformation about the coronavirus pandemic."

To read this article:
https://techxplore.com/news/2020-04-whatsapp-tightens-limits-curb-virus.html

Short Article: You're probably more susceptable to misinformation than you think

Title:
You're probably more susceptable to misinformation than you think

Author:
Darren Lilleker

Published:
Phys.org, 13 January 2020

From the article:
"Online misinformation works, or so it would seem. One of the more interesting statistics from the 2019 UK general election was that 88% of advertisements posted on social media by the Conservative Party pushed figures that had already been deemed misleading by the UK's leading fact-checking organisation, Full Fact. And, of course, the Conservatives won the election by a comfortable margin.

Internet firms such as Facebook and Google are taking some steps to limit political misinformation."

To read this article:
https://phys.org/news/2020-01-youre-susceptible-misinformation.html

Scholarly Article: Libraries and Fake News: What's the Problem? What's the Plan?

Title:
Libraries and fake news: What's the problem? What's the plan?

Author:
Matthew C. Sullivan, Harvard University

Published:
Communications in Information Literacy, volume 13, issue 1, 2019
https://doi.org/10.15760/comminfolit.2019.13.1.7

From the abstract:
"This article surveys the library and information science (LIS) response to the problem of fake news and misinformation from the 2016 U.S. presidential election to the end of 2018, focusing on how librarians and other information professionals in the United States have articulated the problems and the paths forward for combatting them. Additionally, the article attempts to locate the LIS response in a larger interdisciplinary misinformation research program, provide commentary on the response in view of that research program, and lay out both a possible research agenda for the field and practical next steps for educators ahead of the 2020 election."