Newsletters Recycled disinformation: the infertility myths that conspiracists are borrowing from the past The Infodemic is a weekly newsletter, tracking how anti-science disinformation is reshaping our world. In this edition: Justin Bieber’s face paralysis has made him a martyr for the vaccine skeptics and infertility myths continue to capture anti-vaxxers’ imaginations newsletter Alexandra Tyan
Newsletters Following the ‘Covid playbook’: How conspiracy theorists are using old tricks around Monkeypox The Infodemic is a weekly newsletter, tracking how anti-science disinformation is reshaping our world. In this edition: China’s censors patrol social media for Covid-related news from North Korea and Homer Simpson is unwittingly fueling Monkeypox conspiracy theories. newsletter Alexandra Tyan
Newsletters Numerology, astrology, tarot: pseudoscientists are predicting the outcome of Kremlin’s war in Ukraine The Infodemic is a weekly newsletter, tracking how anti-science disinformation is reshaping our world. Also in this edition: the Kremlin claims US biolabs in Nigeria are the source of Monkeypox and a French physician whips up panic around an unexistent “sterility epidemic” caused by vaccines. newsletter Alexandra Tyan
Newsletters Monkeypox disinformation is already a scourge. This TikTok pediatrician is fighting back The Infodemic is a weekly newsletter, tracking how anti-science disinformation is reshaping our world. Also in this edition: Partygate scandals rip through politics in the UK and Argentina, Nicaragua vaccinates population with expired shots, and Kazakhstan’s numerology problem newsletter Erica Hellerstein
Newsletters Pearls, rhino horns and arsenic: Covid-hit North Koreans advised to turn to traditional medicine The Infodemic is a weekly newsletter, tracking how anti-science disinformation is reshaping our world. Also in this edition: Bill Gates is so over the pandemic, anti-vaxxers blame Nadal’s injuries on Pfizer and Chinese students break down Covid barricades newsletter Masho Lomashvili
Newsletters The Roe v. Wade leak is bringing an onslaught of medical misinformation and dangerous DIY interventions The Infodemic is a weekly newsletter, tracking how anti-science disinformation is reshaping our world. Also in this edition: Beijingers fear looming lockdown, and a leading hydroxychloroquine doctor is back in the spotlight newsletter Isobel Cockerell
Newsletters After years of Covid denial, Bolsonaro decrees the pandemic finished The Infodemic is a weekly newsletter, tracking how anti-science disinformation is reshaping our world. Also in this edition: Tucker Carlson touts “testosterone tanning,” and Guatemala lets vaccines spoil newsletter Isobel Cockerell
Newsletters Vaccine skeptics co-opt the AIDS crisis The Infodemic is a weekly newsletter, tracking how anti-science disinformation is reshaping our world. Also in this edition: Shanghai starves under lockdown, and the real story of the pandemic’s “enduring mysteries” newsletter Masho Lomashvili
Newsletters ‘I feel no better than a prisoner’: inside Shanghai’s crushing lockdown The Infodemic is a weekly newsletter, tracking how anti-science disinformation is reshaping our world. Also in this edition: the source of the biolab conspiracy theory, and Russia’s burgeoning fake science industry newsletter Isobel Cockerell
Newsletters Why anti-vaccine groups are running with Putin’s narrative The Infodemic is a weekly newsletter, tracking how anti-science disinformation is reshaping our world. Also in this edition: Russian soldiers with radiation sickness, the fight over childhood Covid vaccination, and Japan’s HPV vaccine drive newsletter Isobel Cockerell
Newsletters British homegrown conspiracies get Beijing’s stamp of approval The Infodemic is a weekly newsletter, tracking how anti-science disinformation is reshaping our world. Also in this edition: Russell Brand promotes the Ukraine biolab myth, and Sputnik V’s propaganda op in Latin America newsletter Isobel Cockerell
Newsletters No one dares criticize Hong Kong’s Covid-19 response The Infodemic is a weekly newsletter, tracking how anti-science disinformation is reshaping our world. Also in this edition: Ukraine’s expected HIV surge, and South African scientists muzzled from commenting on Russian invasion newsletter Masho Lomashvili
Newsletters Ukraine’s decades-long vaccine hesitancy bites as refugees flee The Infodemic is a weekly newsletter, tracking how anti-science disinformation is reshaping our world. Also in this edition: isolation or jail in Omicron-hit Hong Kong, and the man who spent $57,000 in Covid funds on a Pokémon card. newsletter Isobel Cockerell
Newsletters Russia’s vaccine diplomacy is eviscerated as Ukraine invasion rumbles on The Infodemic is a weekly newsletter, tracking how disinformation surrounding the coronavirus crisis is reshaping our world. Also in this edition: Sergei Lavrov pushes biolab conspiracies, and Covid’s effect on the Ukrainian invasion newsletter Isobel Cockerell
