COVID misinformation

“I’m not trying to promote misinformation, I’m not trying to be controversial,” Rogan said in an Instagram video on Sunday.

Spotify is adding a content advisory warning to podcasts that discuss COVID-19 amid complaints that it was allowing misinformation to spread on its platform.

Earlier Sunday, an Archewell spokesperson said Prince Harry and Meghan told Spotify “about the all too real consequences of COVID-19 misinformation on its platform.”

The couple, who partnered with Spotify in 2020, said they plan to continue working with the platform.

Twitter says it’s banned the personal account of far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for multiple violations of the platform’s COVID-19 misinformation policy

Republicans in New Hampshire are struggling to contain a party wing that’s promoting conspiracy views about the COVID-19 vaccine and pushing back against federal vaccine mandates

Front-line medical workers are growing weary of COVID-19 denial and misinformation in treating unvaccinated patients during the delta-driven surge

Trinidad and Tobago’s health minister is pushing back on what he says are “false claims” made by rapper Nicki Minaj, who tweeted earlier this week about an uncorroborated adverse reaction from the coronavirus vaccine on testicles.

Public forums before local school boards and city councils are the latest source of misinformation about COVID-19

YouTube has suspended U.S. Sen. Rand Paul for seven days after the Kentucky Republican posted a misleading video suggesting face masks don’t prevent infection by COVID-19.

Statewide, the new daily COVID counts have surged past 1,000 the last couple days, up significantly from the roughly 300 to 400 Gov. Andrew Cuomo was reporting just a month ago. NBC New York’s Phil Lipof reports.

Four of New York’s mass vaccination sites that opened at the beginning of 2021 to meet the overwhelming demand of inoculating some 19 million residents are set to close on Monday. Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced last week plans to downsize the state’s mass vaccination efforts to redistribute resources into more localized operations. The sites at The Conference and Event Center…

President Joe Biden on Friday criticized social media platforms like Facebook for spreading misinformation about the coronavirus and vaccines, as his administration has blamed them for stalling U.S. vaccine rates. “They’re killing people,” Biden said when asked what his message was to social media platforms like Facebook on the spread of false and misleading claims about the virus and the safety of...

In a White House briefing on Thursday, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy shared his new advisory on the dangers of health misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic.