Fake News Update: Twitter Bans 7,000 QAnon accounts
Twitter has taken the bold step of removing thousands of QAnon accounts. What is the backstory here, why have they done this?
Bots: 25% of Climate tweets are fake
The Guardian reports that as many as 25% of climate related tweets are bots. How can you tell if a twitter account is human or a bot?
Anti-vaxxer group ridiculed by vast numbers
Anti-vaxxer group asks for term “anti-vaxxer” to be dropped. Thousands quite rightly ridicule them because 140,000 died last year from measles
Trollbot swarms
What is a trollbot, and what are they currently being deployed to do on social media platforms? How can we actually see what is happening?
Fact Check: Was June Hottest Month?
Tweets have been circulating on social media declaring that June 2019 was the hottest month ever recorded. For example … So was it? Quick Answer: Nope. Slightly longer answer is this correction from Climatologist Michael E Mann … But how do we know? The alpha source for all of the latest “Hottest” claims comes from … Read more
Debunking Roseanne Barr myths
Now that the dust has settled a little and the media frenzy has died down, I’d like to focus on it all by examining a few of the claims that have been tossed around within the twitter maelstrom. People tweet racist stuff all the time, so why all the focus? It is different for various … Read more