je.st
news
Tag: theories
5G conspiracy theories rife as India suffers Covid second wave
2021-05-12 02:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
Last week, the Indian government gave the go-ahead for the country’s operators to begin testing 5G equipment – although notably excluding Chinese vendors ZTE and Huawei. Since then, rumours have been circulating on various social media channels that the trials are in fact to blame for the severe second wave of pandemic that India is currently battling…read more on TotalTele.com »
Tags: second
india
wave
theories
Conspiracy theories, coronavirus, 5G and violence - a perfect storm
2020-06-23 02:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
A new study by psychologists from Northumbria University discovered that people who believe in conspiracy theories linking coronavirus to 5G are more likely to feel justified to have a violent response towards the technology…read more on TotalTele.com »
Tags: perfect
violence
storm
theories
Facebook, YouTube Crack Down on Conspiracy Theories Linking 5G to Coronavirus
2020-04-08 19:08:15| TechNewsWorld
Facebook and YouTube are cracking down on the pervasive conspiracy theories linking the spread of coronavirus to 5G wireless technology. Facebook has begun actively removing false claims that could lead to physical harm. WhatsApp has reduced the number of accounts users can forward chats to from five to one. Meanwhile, YouTube has banned all videos promoting 5G-coronavirus conspiracy theories.
Tags: to
linking
youtube
crack
Study: YouTube Achieves Some Success at Hobbling Conspiracy Theories
2020-03-03 19:14:42| TechNewsWorld
YouTube's efforts to reduce the spread of conspiracy theories on the platform appear to be bearing fruit. YouTube "significantly reduced the overall volume of recommended conspiratorial content," three researchers wrote in a study from the University of California, Berkeley. The team spent 15 months studying 8 million recommendations from the platform's next-watch algorithm.
Tags: study
success
youtube
theories
Fossil footprints challenge established theories of human evolution
2017-08-31 06:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] Newly discovered human-like footprints from Crete may put the established narrative of early human evolution to the test. The footprints are approximately 5.7 million years old and were made at a time when previous research puts our ancestors in Africa - with ape-like feet. Ever since the discovery of fossils of Australopithecus in South and East Africa during the middle years of the 20th century, the origin of the human lineage has been thought to lie in Afr…
Tags: human
established
challenge
evolution