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Trusting the messengers
Building trust amidst public health misinformation Where do we, as humans, go for information? As evidence tells us, the answer is trusted sources. Namely, our
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Building trust amidst public health misinformation Where do we, as humans, go for information? As evidence tells us, the answer is trusted sources. Namely, our
Why vaccines are so prone to misinformation Herd immunity is in trouble. As World Immunisation Week acknowledges, global vaccination coverage has seen the largest continuous
Stefan Rollnick’s roundup of platform profits, vulnerabilities and the damage of disinformation. Moving forward from 2022: The year that was, 2023 looks like the year
The 23rd of March is a big day for the comms and PR industry. Before the SABRE Awards evening, PRovoke Media is hosting their EMEA
In 2022, 85% of sports broadcasts were of male athletes, 96% of CEOs of British companies were men, and 83.5% of engineers were men. Meanwhile
COVID-19 taught us that tackling a pandemic means tackling two pandemics: one viral and one informational. Here are some of the emerging, and yet-to-emerge, misinformation
How the far right responded In the aftermath of Britain’s ‘no confidence’ vote in the Prime Minister, we at The Misinformation Cell turned our focus
Hope. For many of us, over the course of the pandemic, it’s been in fairly short supply.
Monday 22 November, the Misinformation Cell held its first, sell out webinar – ‘In conversation with the Misinformation Cell’ – where our CEO Shayoni Lynn and our Head of Misinformation Cell Stefan Rollnick sat down to try to demystify mis and disinformation. If you want to make sure you’re first in the queue for our next one, you can sign up for Misinformation Cell updates here.
Is misinformation getting worse? The short answer is yes. The misinformation challenge has grown over the last ten years for a variety of reasons. Probably the most significant change over the last two decades has been our ‘information environment’. While the vast majority of us once got our news from a small number of common, trusted sources, billions of people around the world are now getting their news through their news feeds on social media. This ‘news’ can be produced by anyone, anywhere in the world. Importantly, with the new tools in web design and the platform provided by social media, it’s easy to produce content that has the look and feel of reliable, mainstream news.
