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This is a list of notable incidents that have experienced a Streisand effect, an unintended consequence of attempts to hide, remove, or censor information, where the effort instead backfires by increasing public awareness of the information. This list includes only instances explicitly identified by the media or other sources as examples of the ...
NHS data shows that the proportion of women using the pill as their main form of contraception has dropped from 47% in 2012-13 to 27% in 2022-23. Social media misinformation putting women off ...
Warned by the US Food and Drug Administration for spreading misinformation on COVID-19 for "claims on videos posted on your websites that establish the intended use of your products and misleadingly represent them as safe and/or effective for the treatment or prevention of COVID-19." [130] [131] [132] Bare Naked Islam barenakedislam.com [133] [134]
Described by Futurism as "an alt-right women's lifestyle publication" that posts "a range of bizarre and often harmful content including vaccine misinformation, a bevy of wildly unscientific assertions about women's health, anti-trans fearmongering, unsupported 'psyop' conspiracies, and pro-life messaging that often includes false claims about ...
Along with preserving the integrity and trust that keep societies together, businesses can also be the target of misinformation campaigns, as seen recently with efforts to disrupt the Olympics or ...
The "Doc Bottoms Aspray" -- it's pronounced A-spray, though most certainly intended to be remembered for an alternative pronunciation -- seems more like a Saturday Night Live skit than a real product.
An example is disinformation around COVID-19 vaccines. Disinformation has targeted the products themselves, the researchers and organizations who develop them, the healthcare professionals and organizations who administer them, and the policy-makers that have supported their development and advised their use.
Facebook's coverage of misinformation has become a hot topic with the spread of COVID-19, as some reports indicated Facebook recommended pages containing health misinformation. [153] For example, this can be seen when a user likes an anti-vax Facebook page. Automatically, more and more anti-vax pages are recommended to the user. [153]