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Members of the County Council joining over video chat participate in the Pledge of Allegiance at the start of a council meeting at the St. Louis County Council Chambers in Clayton, Mo., Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021. Public forums before local school boards and city councils are the latest source of misinformation about COVID-19. (Colter Peterson/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)
Misinformation at Public Forums Vexes Local Boards, Big Tech
  • 16 August 2021
“I hope no one is making any medical decisions based on what they hear at...
Misinformation at Public Forums Vexes Local Boards, Big Tech
FILE - In this Friday, Jan. 8, 2021, file photo doctors inject sisters Claudia Scott-Mighty, left, Althea Scott-Bonaparte, who are patient care directors, and Christine Scott, an ICU nurse, with their second shot of the Pfizer vaccine at NewYork-Presbyterian Lawrence Hospital, in Bronxville, N.Y. The private New York-Presbyterian hospital system announced in June that it will require its 48,000 employees to be vaccinated unless they have a valid exemption. Workers in New York City-run hospitals and health clinics will have to get vaccinated or get tested weekly under a policy announced Wednesday, July 21, to battle a rise in COVID-19 cases fueled by the highly contagious delta variant. (AP Photo/Kevin Hagen, File)
COVID-19 Cases in US Triple Over 2 Weeks Amid Misinformation
  • 21 July 2021
COVID-19 cases tripled in the U.S. over two weeks amid an onslaught of vaccine misinformation...
COVID-19 Cases in US Triple Over 2 Weeks Amid Misinformation
FILE - In this Feb. 5, 2021 file photo, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Twitter is giving Greene a 12-hour timeout, saying some of her tweets violated its policy against coronavirus misinformation. Twitter suspended the Republican from Georgia on Monday, July 19 after President Joe Biden urged tech companies to take stronger action against bogus claims he said are “killing people.” Twitter says it has removed thousands of tweets and challenged millions of accounts worldwide. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
Marjorie Taylor Greene: Twitter Timeout Is ‘Communist-Style’ Attack
  • 20 July 2021
Twitter imposed the 12-hour timeout on Rep. Greene, saying some of her tweets violated its...
Marjorie Taylor Greene: Twitter Timeout Is ‘Communist-Style’ Attack
FILE - In this April 30, 2021, file photo, pro-Trump attorney L. Lin Wood, a candidate for chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party, speaks to attendees of the Richland County GOP convention in Columbia, S.C. A federal judge is considering whether to order financial penalties or other sanctions against some of former President Donald Trump's lawyers, including Wood, who signed onto a lawsuit last year challenging Michigan's election results. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard, File)
Trump Lawyers Might Be Penalized over Michigan Election Case
  • 12 July 2021
The lawsuit alleging widespread fraud was voluntarily dropped after a judge in December found nothing...
Trump Lawyers Might Be Penalized over Michigan Election Case
Sen. Ron Johnson
YouTube Suspends Sen. Ron Johnson for COVID-19 ‘Misinformation’
  • 11 June 2021
Sen. Ron Johnson was suspended from uploading videos to YouTube for one week, after the...
YouTube Suspends Sen. Ron Johnson for COVID-19 ‘Misinformation’
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