{"id":6539,"date":"2022-08-02T08:36:57","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T06:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/02\/anti-vax-twitter-accounts-pushing-food-crisis-misinformation-study-finds\/"},"modified":"2022-08-02T08:36:57","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T06:36:57","slug":"anti-vax-twitter-accounts-pushing-food-crisis-misinformation-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/02\/anti-vax-twitter-accounts-pushing-food-crisis-misinformation-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-vax Twitter accounts pushing food crisis misinformation, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Research says conspiracy theorists shifting from QAnon and Covid to disinformation about crisis caused by Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine<\/p>\n<p>Twitter accounts that have promoted QAnon and anti-vaccine conspiracy theories are switching focus and increasingly spreading disinformation about the global food crisis caused by Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, according to a new study.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/networkcontagion.us\/reports\/7-28-22-hunger-is-our-only-hope-the-russian-disinformation-ecosystem-and-online-conspiracy-communities-shifting-focus-to-looming-food-crisis\/\">The research<\/a> by the <a href=\"https:\/\/networkcontagion.us\/\">Network Contagion Research Institute<\/a> (NCRI), found that conspiracy theorist social media accounts started pushing the idea that western countries are responsible for the interruption of wheat, barley and maize exports from Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2022\/aug\/01\/anti-vax-qanon-twitter-russia-food-crisis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/46fbfbb3cdf7f5b13c648e33e6ca6db7b53f3bca\/0_365_5575_3344\/master\/5575.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=ae93c14a12cdd330b2aeecec90d30959\" title=\"Anti-vax Twitter accounts pushing food crisis misinformation, study finds\" \/>Research says conspiracy theorists shifting from QAnon and Covid to disinformation about crisis caused by Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine<br \/>\nTwitter accounts that have promoted QAnon and anti-vaccine conspiracy theories are switching focus and increasingly spreading disinformation about the global food crisis caused by Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, according to a new study.<br \/>\nThe research by the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI), found that conspiracy theorist social media accounts started pushing the idea that western countries are responsible for the interruption of wheat, barley and maize exports from Ukraine. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research says conspiracy theorists shifting from QAnon and Covid to disinformation about crisis caused by Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine Twitter accounts that have promoted QAnon and anti-vaccine conspiracy theories are switching focus and increasingly spreading disinformation about the global food crisis caused by Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, according to a new study. The research by &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/02\/anti-vax-twitter-accounts-pushing-food-crisis-misinformation-study-finds\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Anti-vax Twitter accounts pushing food crisis misinformation, study finds<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6539"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}