The Promise and the Peril of Virtual Health Care
Promise / Virtual Health Care The call came in to the emergency department at Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital, a twenty-five-bed facility in Lebanon, New Hampshire, around 2 p.m. on a weekday in mid-March. Patient X had arrived by car, and, by the time he reached the hospital, the pain in his legs was so severe that he couldn’t move. Fonte: The New Yorker Leia todo o…
Brasil é o país onde há mais preocupação com fake news
Brasil / Fake News O relatório Reuters Digital News Report, lançado nesta 3ª feira (16.jun.2020), indica que 84% dos brasileiros estão preocupados com a disseminação de notícias falsas na internet. O país lidera o ranking de 40 países selecionados pela agência internacional de notícias. Fonte: Poder 360 Leia todo o texto Link: https://www.poder360.com.br/midia/brasil-e-o-pais-onde-ha-mais-preocupacao-com-as-fake-news/?fbclid=IwAR1f4NLh9TAyPStfpfnWR6ZlOHjUHxC52kV6R25dH_8PoCBoIh1SnOQiJig Leia outros textos aqui
Social Media Companies Profiting from Misinformation
Social Media / Misinformation While the spread of disinformation through social media presents a general crisis for our democracy, the online spread of disinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic has shown that it also presents threats to public health, said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). Fonte: GW TODAY Leia todo o texto Link: https://gwtoday.gwu.edu/social-media-companies-profiting-misinformation?fbclid=IwAR3HlCO8cbLztAS8TLXi3HezSkzdrGHDmZck0J7DM-yWR5KZqhIBwI1NDf0 Leia outros textos aqui
How Facebook, Twitter and other data troves are revolutionizing social science
Data troves / Social science Elizaveta Sivak spent nearly a decade training as a sociologist. Then, in the middle of a research project, she realized that she needed to head back to school. Fonte: Nature Leia todo o texto Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01747-1?fbclid=IwAR2elqpu5-G4lMich3vLfrTbcvMGH8Ft0PRsnNHvuD_1ECPGj-dOM4AUzp4 Leia outros textos aqui
Facebook, Google, Twitter Pledge Vigilance on Disinformation
Vigilance / Disinformation Executives from Facebook Inc., Twitter Inc. and Google told U.S. lawmakers they are combating disinformation on a range of subjects including the 2020 election and have taken down videos, posts and messages deemed false and a risk to health and safety. Fonte: Bloomberg Leia todo o texto Link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-18/facebook-google-twitter-tell-congress-ready-for-disinformation?utm_medium=social&cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-politics&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_content=politics&utm_source=twitter&fbclid=IwAR2knSNfXIB8rAmvt5sEuW2NVXk5oiEGO6MJaxJc2EWoJNQfztL78Yx-iiM Leia outros textos aqui
