Covid hoaxes are using a loophole to stay alive—even after content is deleted

MIT Technology Review by Bobbie Johnson

Since the onset of the pandemic, the Technology and Social Change Research Project at Harvard Kennedy’s Shorenstein Center, where I am the director, has been investigating how misinformation, scams, and conspiracies about covid-19 circulate online. If fraudsters are now using the virus to dupe unsuspecting individuals, we thought, then our research on misinformation should focus on understanding the new tactics of these media manipulators. What we found was a disconcerting explosion in “zombie content.”

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Death at a distance: Zoom funerals in the time of coronavirus

Al Jazeera English (In Depth)

Due to COVID-19 restrictions, social media and videoconferencing apps are the only ways people can connect and mourn.

Turkey’s recent amendments to the Law on the Execution of Penalties (Law No. 5275) is severely disappointing for those who care about rights, freedoms, and believe in justice. Law no. 7242’s amendments worsen already existing injustice in Turkey’s

The coronavirus pandemic is likely to be followed by even more deadly and destructive disease outbreaks unless their root cause – the rampant destruction of the natural world – is rapidly halted, the world’s leading biodiversity

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Coronavirus: Why Germany has been so successful in dealing with COVID-19

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Coronavirus: ‘Myth’ that Sweden has not taken ‘serious steps’

BBC News | Europe | World Editio

Sweden’s deputy prime minister, Isabella Lovin, told the BBC’s Andrew Marr that measures that were too harsh could not be sustained over time.

Dozens arrested in anti-COVID-19 lockdown protest in Germany

Al Jazeera English (In Depth)

About 1,000 people turned out for the rally, which has become a weekly event in the German capital, Berlin.

Türkiye’de koronavirüs: Cerrahpaşa’da bir gün

The Streets of Paris Under Quarantine | The New Yorker

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