The Inoculation -- Vaccine Misinformation and Society
News:Politics
The prospect of a cold winter makes energy a hot topic in Europe. Russia, aiming to chip away at Western support for Ukraine, has an interest in stoking people’s fears. And where does Russia find enthusiastic supporters? You guessed it — among public health skeptics.
This is the first episode of our 4th season, in which we will focus on Germany and the ways various health, energy and climate conspiracies link up there. For this episode we talked to GMFUS’s Bret Schafer and Kristine Berzina to learn about how Russia goes about shaping public opinion abroad.
Here are some of the information sources used for this episode:
Polling Nordstream 2: https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/1282647/umfrage/festhalten-am-projekt-nord-stream2/
Germans’ opinion now: https://www.n-tv.de/politik/Mehrheit-ist-gegen-Offnung-von-Nord-Stream-2-article23536541.html
Share of Russian gas in Europe: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1201743/russian-gas-dependence-in-europe-by-country/
Dependency on Russia:
https://www.statista.com/chart/26768/dependence-on-russian-gas-by-european-country/
Russian gas reserves: https://www.statista.com/topics/6207/russian-natural-gas-industry/#dossierKeyfigures
Imports: https://ihsmarkit.com/research-analysis/russian-gas-imports-in-the-eu-threat-or-a-chance.html
and: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/07/business/russia-gas-europe.html
How Russia cut gas supplies: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60131520
Our earlier episodes:
Episode 25 - Are Antivaxxers More Likely to be Pro-Putin?
Episode 21 - The Falsehood Firehose: How Russian Disinformation Actors Spread Propaganda
Episode 18 - How Anti-Vaccination Movements Pull Parents In
Episode 17 - Fight Against Vaccine, Climate Disinformation Linked: Expert
Episode 11 - Social Media, Russia, Disinformation -- GMFUS' Bret Shafer
Episode 10 - 'Superspreaders of Malign' -- Disinformation Expert Miriam Matthews Talks About Russian Information Manipulation
As Pandemic Emergency Is Lifted, Have Disinformation Spreaders Moved On?
ChatGPT -- What Is It and Should we Be Worried about Generative AI?
Where is Russian Disinformation Headed?
Why Did a Vision for a Modern City Turn into a Conspiracy Theory?
Why Do Far-Right and Far-Left Parties Benefit from Social Media Algorithms?
The Inoculation’s (AI-Assisted) News Roundup: ChatGPT, Finland and Twitter
Introducing Season 5: How Anti-Vaccine Views Reshaped Our Politics
Does Elon Musk’s Ownership of Twitter Undermine Its Role as a Public Space?
Twitter’s Turmoil Was Predicted By Disinformation Researchers
Who are the Doctors Who Spread Disinformation and Why Do They Do It?
Conspiracy 🤝 Spirituality = Conspirituality
Homeopathy – a Pseudoscientific Gateway to Anti-Vaccine Views and COVID-19 Denialism?
Can Robots Detect Disinformation?
As Tourism Returns, These Southern European Countries Are Still Vaccine Champions
Political Biases: What Role Do They Play in Disinformation?
We Fact-checked VAIDS, a New Antivax New Conspiracy (Hint: It Doesn’t Exist)
Elon Musk and Twitter - A Disinformation Nightmare?
Wary of Russian Aggression, the Baltics Contain Political Falsehoods but Struggle with COVID Disinfo
Are Antivaxxers More Likely to be Pro-Putin?
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