Russia Is Having Less Success at Spreading Social Media Disinformation

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March 08, 2022

Policy Russia Is Having Less Success at Spreading Social Media Disinformation But that could change if people tire of defending against an onslaught of misinformation By Sophie Bushwick

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Ecology Millions of Palm-Sized Flying Spiders Could Invade the East Coast A huge invasive spider from East Asia that swarmed Georgia could soon take over most of the U.S. East Coast, a new study has revealed By Ben Turner,LiveScience

Fossil Fuels Amid War, Biden Reluctant to Unleash Clean Energy Rhetoric The U.S. president has not followed Europe's calls to produce more renewable energy to weaken Russia's global influence By Adam Aton,E&E News

Pollution Tons of COVID Medical Garbage Threaten Health Burning piles of used gloves, test kits and syringes release toxic pollutants. But there are ways to improve medical recycling By Charles Schmidt

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FROM THE ARCHIVE How the U.S. Could Retaliate against Russia's Information War Obama promised a response to hacking and other election interference, but what are his options? By Larry Greenemeier | December 2016

QUOTE OF THE DAY "A challenge we are all going to have to deal with is that this war is not going to be over in the next few days, but the news cycle cannot maintain this level of focus on these events...If someone is trying to spread some kind of [disinformation]--maybe the Russians make up some fake Ukrainian atrocity or something--that's when the world is going to be susceptible to that kind of thing." Laura Edelson, misinformation researcher and Ph.D. candidate in computer science at New York University

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