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COVID-19, media and (dis)information: compilation

MAY / JUNE

English

Information warfare: COVID-19’s other battleground in the Middle East – Global Voices

Nearly half of all tweets on coronavirus likely came from a bot, study says – Truth Out

Despite Battling COVID Misinformation, Community Radio News Still Seen as ‘Security Threat’ – The Wire

Portuguese

Pressão de militares após recordes de mortes levou a mudança em dados – FSP

Lidando com a infodemia: As ações das redes sociais contra as fake news – Justificando

Spanish

Entender la infodemia y la desinformación en la lucha contra la COVID-19 – OPS

 

MARCH / APRIL

W.H.O. Fights a Pandemic Besides Coronavirus: An ‘Infodemic’ – NY Times

The Coronavirus-Denial Movement Now Has a Leader – The Atlantic

Bolsonaro’s COVID-19 denial will devastate vulnerable Brazilians – Al Jazeera

Bolsonaro, Isolated and Defiant, Dismisses Coronavirus Threat to Brazil – New York Times

Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro says coronavirus crisis is a media trick – The Guardian

“A Little Flu” Could Be Fatal for Jair Bolsonaro – The Jacobin

The Guardian view on Jair Bolsonaro: a danger to Brazilians – The Guardian

Brazil’s message to the world: our president is wrong about coronavirus – The Guardian

As Latin America Shuts Down to Fight Virus, Brazil and Mexico Are Holdouts – NY Times

As criticism mounts, Mexican government rejects more aggressive fight against coronavirus – LA Times

HRW slams ‘reckless’ Mexican leader over COVID-19 – MSN

Mexico’s president Lopez Obrador plays Robin Hood in Covid-19 crisis – RFI

The inside story of Boris Johnson’s path to putting UK in coronavirus lockdown – Telegraph

Boris Johnson must impose a lockdown now – The Guardian

Boris Johnson learns no one is immune to Covid-19 – CNN

False Prophet – The Atlantic

The Contrarian Coronavirus Theory That Informed the Trump Administration – The New Yorker

As the Coronavirus Spreads, Conspiracy Theories Are Going Viral Too – Foreign Policy

A Side Effect of Remote Teaching During Covid-19? Videos That Can Be Weaponized – The Chronicle of Higher Education

Turkmenistan Has Banned Use Of The Word ‘Coronavirus’ – NPR

Google Scrubs Coronavirus Misinformation on Search, YouTube – Bloomberg

YouTube is demonetizing videos about coronavirus, and creators are mad – The Verge

Facebook doubles down on removing coronavirus conspiracy theories – Recode

YouTube deletes video in which Olavo de Carvalho says coronavirus never killed – Times 24 news



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