🚨NEW: We found that 10 hate spreaders are exploiting the Israel-Gaza conflict to boost their accounts on X - and Elon Musk’s platform is profiting from ads on their extreme content.

Their accounts grew 4 times faster after October 7🧵
techcrunch.com/2024/04/11/ccd…

Peterson's rant against the COVID vaccines is filled with SO many lies & inaccuracies. Mostly, he's just wrong over & over.

But he says everything with such conviction (and rage) it feels like he must be right. (Again, nope.) A good example of 'belief-speaking' (Peterson) vs…

🔴 ‘Panic, Misinformation and Hysteria About Freeports is Drowning Out the Real Concerns’

Chris Grey 🇺🇦 disentangles the myriad alarming claims being made about ‘special economic zones’ and freeports in order to focus on the real risks

bylinetimes.com/2024/04/04/fre…

Thread: Muna Haddad and I trace in this long piece how Israel has used food to control the Palestinians in Gaza from 1967 until today. Below is a thread of just one paragraph so as to provide a sense of the kind of machinations that were put to work.

nybooks.com/online/2024/03…

My column on Sunak’s honours list - and the Tories plotting another hot no-confidence vote summer. Ok, hot no-confidence vote spring.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

CCDH has won the dismissal of Elon Musk’s baseless and intimidatory lawsuit to silence our research.

This is a huge win for organizations holding social media giants accountable.

More in the The New York Times ⤵️ nytimes.com/2024/03/25/tec…

My new paper is out in Terrorism and Political Violence:

Conspiracies Gone Wild: A Psychiatric Perspective on Conspiracy Theory Belief, Mental Illness, and the Potential for Lone Actor Ideological Violence

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

New study alert! Inoculation reduces misinformation: experimental evidence from a field study with the largest newspaper in Brazil!

Very impressive and great to see more evidence from the global south!

h/t Stephan Lewandowsky JEPS

cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Yes, I totally buy this. The pandemic was an enormous, searing trauma and America, as is its wont, just immediately suppressed it, tried to memory hole it. But all that trauma is still reverberating. theatlantic.com/health/archive…

Life is short, so be sure to read as many articles about celebrity breakups as possible.

How vulnerable is the whole texture of facts in which we spend our daily life; it is always in danger of being perforated by single lies or torn to shreds by the organised lying of groups, nations or classes...
- Hannah Arendt

'I want my country back': what's in a phrase? New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog. A deep dive into what lies beneath what Lee Anderson says he and millions of others want, and how it relates to debates about extremism: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2024/03/i-want…

📢Invitation for Online Participation | Workshop on 'Narratives of Adhesion vs. Separation' | 25.03. - 26.03.24

Prof. Stephan Lewandowsky is welcoming Paola Lo Cascio, Andrew Dowling, Fintan O'Toole, Jane Suiter, Joanna Szostek 💙💛🦉, Tetyana Malyarenko among others.

More infos:
aia-nrw.org/en/e/narrative…

More on the effectiveness of WWII propaganda;

'When the Nazis took control over the radio and began broadcasting pro-Nazi messages, the effect of the previous four years of the pro-Weimar radio was undone in just one month'.

academic.oup.com/qje/article/13…

I wish I didn’t have to write this

I am an artist, not a politician, and would rather speak through creative action than explanatory text

But I find that for several reasons, I must respond to accusations and smears made against me these last couple of weeks

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.JITSUVAX Philipp Schmid Dawn (Liu) Holford Cornelia Betsch 🖖

How to have better conversations about vaccines?💉

JITSUVAX member Dawn (Liu) Holford in Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance interview about the Empathetic Refutational Interview. Read the interview here👇
gavi.org/vaccineswork/h…

Countering misinformation in conversations? Empathy is key! Our new study 'The Empathetic Refutational Interview to Tackle Vaccine Misconceptions: Four Randomized Experiments' is out in the journal Health Psychology