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FOX News advertisers spread Tucker Carlson spreading racism and COVID Disinfo

FOX News advertisers fund Tucker Carlson spreading racism and COVID disinfo

Leave a Comment / Misinformation, Power mapping, Radicalization / By Deepak Puri

Who are FOX’s biggest advertisers supporting Tucker Carlson spreading racism? Which FOX directors are connected with Stanford, Georgetown and The Nature Conservancy? How do people and organizations claim high sounding values, but support racism and disinformation at the same time? Check this relationship map to follow the money and learn what you can do to …

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Facebook spreads COVID disinfo to boost its blood money profits.

Will there be a hospital bed available if you need it?

Leave a Comment / COVID, Mapping and Story Mapping, Misinformation, Mobilizing Supporters and Voters / By Deepak Puri

Ambulances wait for hours to get patients into overcrowded hospitals. Even the vaccinated are denied medical treatment because hospitals are filled with COVID patients – many of whom are unvaccinated. What is the available bed capacity at different hsopitals? How do political ambitions, corporate greed and disinformation lead to a lack of hospital beds? How …

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Conspiracies like COVID are contagious and can be fatal. Learn to spot conspiracy symptoms and how they're spread.

COVID conspiracy playbook revealed

Leave a Comment / Cartoons, COVID, Disinformation, Messaging, Misinformation / By Deepak Puri

Conspiracies like COVID are contagious and can be fatal. Learn to spot conspiracy symptoms and how they’re spread. Conspiracies manipulate people based on their desire to not to be ruled. A conspiracy has a group acting in secret to grab power or make money at the expense of the common good. People are more likely to see …

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Pandemic profiteers

Leave a Comment / COVID / By Deepak Puri

Who are the profiteers making money from COVID disinformation? How do Facebook and YouTube help the ‘Disinformation Dozen’? Who funds them? “The Anti-Vaxx Industry boasts over $35 million in annual revenues while driving an estimated $1.1 billion in advertising dollars to Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube. according to the CCDH Report. We designed this relationship map to make it easier …

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Free internet service liberates poor rural communities from COVID disinformation

How to win friends and influence people – with free internet service

Leave a Comment / Disinformation, internet access, Mobilizing Supporters and Voters / By Deepak Puri

Disinformation kills. It poisons minds with COVID conspiracy theories and distrust of health experts. It is worst in poor, rural communities where people do not have internet access to get the facts about COVID on their own. It is no surprise that poor, rural communities of color without internet access have some of the highest …

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Foreign interference and domestic politics use disinformation to divide, incite. and manipulate. It's cheap, effective and hard to counter. Learn how to spot it and inoculate others against it too.

Vaccinate against disinformation

Leave a Comment / Disinformation, Misinformation, Technology, Software, and Apps / By Deepak Puri

Foreign interference and domestic politics use disinformation to divide, incite. and manipulate. It’s cheap, effective and hard to counter. Learn how to spot it and inoculate others against it too.

Disinformation is often just Bullshit (BS) designed to trick readers with impressive language, bogus logic and graphs.

How to spot BS being used to manipulate public opinion

Leave a Comment / Disinformation, Messaging, Training Volunteers and Organizers / By Deepak Puri

“Instead of trying to combat each leak directly, we should teach the public to tell when they are being manipulated. Americans should be taught the basic skills necessary to be savvy media consumers, from how to fact-check news articles to how pictures can lie.”

How to spot a disinformation zombie

Leave a Comment / Campaigning during Coronavirus, Disinformation, Messaging / By Deepak Puri

Disinformation is a cruel tactic to grab power by tricking people into voting against their self-interest and safety. Learn how it works and how to counter it.