Are universities punishing students ‘over common cold’?
“I wish the economy and the academy were not so easily incapacitated by the common cold. I wish (U. Penn) President Gutmann had heard the COVID-19 mortality rates in the U.S. were just above 0.1 percent, very similar to the seasonal flu, and acted like it.
Russian senator falsely claims poles closed airspace to virus aid
Chairman of the commission on information policy of the Federation Council, the upper chamber of Russia’s parliament "Poland did not let Russian aircraft carrying aid to Italy pass through its airspace.
The community of collapse
EUvsDisinfo described the dialogue of disinformation. Disinformation outlets need to adopt to the audience, carefully map and understand sentiments, prejudice and ideals.
Sputnik: Coronavirus could be designed to kill elderly Italians
In a time that calls for international cooperation to fight a common threat, Kremlin mouthpiece Sputnik chooses to spread disinformation about COVID-19.
Disinformation can kill
international resources are focused on containing the COVID-19 outbreak. The virus is spreading fast; hundreds of thousands are ill, thousands are dying. Lives depend on accurate and timely information.
Combating ‘fake news’ in the time of COVID-19 in Myanmar
This edited article by Nan Lwin is from The Irrawaddy, an independent news website in Myanmar, and is republished on Global Voices as part of a content-sharing agreement.
The great phony: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s fake quarantine letter
“Read the classics. This is a quarantine letter by F. Scott Fitzgerald, who was isolated in south of France in 1920 due to the Spanish influenza.
Figure of the week: 76 million
the tune of US$76 million per year. New research by the Global Disinformation Index has produced the findings, estimating that more than $76 million in ad revenues is inadvertently being spent annually on…
‘Russophobic’: Kremlin denies evidence of Russian COVID-19 disinformation campaign
“It is about some groundless accusations. In fact, this Russophobic obsession could be expected to fade under the current situation, but it doesn’t seem to be fading," Source: TASS, March 18, 2020 False Disinformation about coronavirus has been spread by Russian state media.
EEAS SPECIAL REPORT: Disinformation on the coronavirus – short assessment of the information environment
disinformation activities related to COVID-19. It does not provide a comprehensive or complete overview and focusses primarily on the external dimension, in line with the EEAS mandate.