Fighting disinformation in Central Europe: showing StopFake’s best practices in Croatia, Zagreb

StopFake.org - Wed, 11/20/2024 - 23:04
StopFake is proud to announce Zagreb as our next stop! It’s an amazing opportunity to learn more about fake news, how to spot it and how to counter disinformation. This year, StopFake is celebrating its 10th anniversary. To celebrate, the famous Ukraine-based team of fact-checkers has teamed up with Google News Initiative to go on […]
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Atlas of cells transforms understanding of human body

Health News BBC - Wed, 11/20/2024 - 19:00
Scientists are mapping out the 37 trillion cells of the human body and changing what we thought we knew
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Drug hope to treat voice spasm like RFK Jr's

Health News BBC - Wed, 11/20/2024 - 17:01
Sodium oxybate can offer temporary relief, in a similar way to drinking alcohol, a trial suggests.
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Strong Enough

StopFake.org - Wed, 11/20/2024 - 12:18
By EUvsDisinfo The Kremlin continued its elections interference campaign in the US until the final moments, utilising the same playbook we have repeatedly uncovered. This week, in a striking demonstration of reality denial, we have witnessed pro-Kremlin sources pushing two contradictory narratives about North Korean troops in Kursk region: claiming they do not exist at all, while […]
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Women plan UK legal action over talc cancer claims

Health News BBC - Wed, 11/20/2024 - 09:16
Hundreds of women in the UK are taking legal action against Johnson and Johnson.
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Living in Delhi smog is like watching a dystopian film again and again

Scientific News BBC - Wed, 11/20/2024 - 05:34
Toxic, deadly, poisonous - these words are back in the headlines as Delhi’s pollution spikes again.
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Fighting disinformation in Central Europe: showing StopFake’s best practices in Slovakia, Bratislava

StopFake.org - Mon, 11/18/2024 - 13:20
StopFake is proud to announce Bratislava as our next stop! It’s an amazing opportunity to learn more about fake news, how to spot it and how to counter disinformation. This year, StopFake is celebrating its 10th anniversary. To celebrate, the famous Ukraine-based team of fact-checkers has teamed up with Google News Initiative to go on […]
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Fighting disinformation in Central Europe: showing StopFake’s best practices in Czech Republic, Prague

StopFake.org - Mon, 11/18/2024 - 13:02
StopFake is proud to announce Prague as our next stop! It’s an amazing opportunity to learn more about fake news, how to spot it and how to counter disinformation. This year, StopFake is celebrating its 10th anniversary. To celebrate, the famous Ukraine-based team of fact-checkers has teamed up with Google News Initiative to go on […]
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'The sixth great extinction is happening', conservation expert warns

Scientific News BBC - Sun, 11/17/2024 - 03:20
Conservationist Jane Goodall on the urgent need to turn the tide on climate change and nature loss.
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Volcanoes once erupted on the far side of the moon

Scientific News BBC - Sat, 11/16/2024 - 13:06
Volcanic rock, dating back billions of years, has been detected in the first samples collected from the mysterious "dark side".
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Trump picks vaccine sceptic RFK Jr for health secretary

Health News BBC - Fri, 11/15/2024 - 14:38
Robert F Kennedy Jr has a history of spreading health information scientists say is false.
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Green Agenda or a ‘Global Plot’?

StopFake.org - Thu, 11/14/2024 - 20:58
By EUvsDisinfo With COP 29 approaching, Pro-Kremlin outlets’ climate coverage reveals a calculated strategy: acknowledge climate change while using it as a tool to attack Western policies. As Azerbaijan prepares to host the UN Climate Change Conference (COP 29), the Russian state-controlled and other pro-Kremlin outlets’ coverage of climate issues continues to follow a familiar pattern. […]
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Putin Keeping Up Appearances

StopFake.org - Thu, 11/14/2024 - 20:40
By EUvsDisinfo Over the last week, leaders and leaders-to-be around the world have appeared in public and some of their words about others deserve scrutiny. In Russia, where Vladimir Putin is the dominant figure in state-controlled outlets, the Kremlin keeps a schedule of keynote events where the master can set the party line straight and […]
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How to Use OSINT Tools to Investigate Identity-Based Disinformation/FIMI

StopFake.org - Thu, 11/14/2024 - 20:18
By EUvsDisinfo Foreign actors are exploiting sensitive topics such as multicultural integration, women’s emancipation, and LGBTIQ+ rights to portray them as immoral and somehow detrimental to ‘traditional values’ in order to create social fractures and advance their geopolitical agendas through identity-based disinformation (IBD). IBD represents a sophisticated form of Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) that weaponises identity characteristics […]
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What is assisted dying and how could the law change?

Health News BBC - Thu, 11/14/2024 - 13:55
A proposed law would give terminally ill people the right to choose to end their life.
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Fake: Graffiti with «Kneeling Zelensky» Appears in New York — Fox News

StopFake.org - Thu, 11/14/2024 - 12:38
The American channel Fox News did not publish graffiti with Volodymyr Zelensky kneeling. Moreover, the distributed image was most likely generated by artificial intelligence. This fake is part of the Russian propaganda narrative to discredit Ukraine in connection with the 2024 US presidential elections. Social networks and Russian websites are widely spreading information that graffiti […]
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Runaway 'spy whale' fled Russian military training says marine scientist

Scientific News BBC - Wed, 11/13/2024 - 08:17
Marine scientist uncovers the story behind Andruha's escape from Russian military training programme.
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'I might be dead before a decision is made': Terminally ill people on assisted dying

Health News BBC - Tue, 11/12/2024 - 20:50
Nik is worried assisted dying could lead to coercion - but Elise, who has cancer, wants the choice.
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Covid inquiry told Treasury blocked NHS bed request

Health News BBC - Mon, 11/11/2024 - 21:06
NHS England chief executive Amanda Pritchard says the decision, in July 2020, was very disappointing.
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