Zack Fishman

Analyst rating trustworthiness in news @NewsGuardRating | Science Journalism '20 @MedillSchool | Physics '19 @Illinois_Alma

[Zack Fishman @ZBFishman]

It's time for a bio change! I just began work as an analyst @NewsGuardRating, where I'll be rating news & info sites for reliability and transparency, with a focus on science & climate content.

It'll be great to help build a universal standard for trust across the internet!

[Jack Brewster @jbruce218]

New: Major brands are supporting the proliferation of unreliable AI-generated news and information sites by funneling programmatic ad dollars to the rapidly growing number of such sites, a @NewsGuardRating analysis has found

h/t @ElisaXu7 and @ZBFishman

https://t.co/Cif29kVSxo

[Jack Brewster @jbruce218]

New: New research from @NewsGuardRating finds that 25 Twitter Blue verified misinformation superspreader accounts were responsible for *141* tweets containing false, misleading, and unsubstantiated claims in just *1 week* on this platform

https://t.co/cExuptvxqT

[Jack Brewster @jbruce218]

For our final report of 2022, @NewsGuardRating has identified the misinformation websites with the most online engagement in 2022 in the United States

We call this list the "10 Most Influential Misinformers"

🧵Thread ⬇️

https://t.co/dLPFSbbbDS

[Zack Fishman @ZBFishman]

@xkcd I had been trying to remember the name of Dice Wars for such a long time, thank you for the reminder!

[Glen Peters @Peters_Glen]

Did you know that 2021 saw the second biggest absolute increase in fossil CO₂ emissions ever recorded?

The biggest increase was in 2010, the year after the Global Financial Crisis.

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[Glen Peters @Peters_Glen]

Which fossil fuels are leading to the most CO₂ emissions in different scenarios?

The IEA 1.5°C scenario (bottom right) squeezes as much as it can out of the system leaving only a very little demand for Carbon Dioxide Removal (afforestation not included here).

[Zack Fishman @ZBFishman]

@Bishamon33 @washingtonpost That's a different argument. Preference for men's sports may be some part of it, but how can people react to pro women's football if they've never heard of it ? From the article, it's clear sexist backlashes against women's leagues were obstacles against their potential success.

[Zack Fishman @ZBFishman]

@washingtonpost I genuinely did not know there was a professional women's football league — and a quick Google search shows that there's 47 teams! It'd be great to see the Women's Football Alliance get more exposure, and this article is a good start.

[nilay patel @reckless]

Today we’re updating The Verge’s policy on agreeing to “background” from tech companies. We’re doing this publicly to provide cover for other newsrooms covering tech to do the same. It’s getting a little ridiculous out there. https://t.co/kCJLzFn7RX

[Monisha Ravisetti @monisharavis]

Spoke with two researchers who set out to understand how theoretical physicists' brains can envision immensely abstract ideas like dark matter and quantum mechanics.
https://t.co/hMsYxDoOsi

[Zack Fishman @ZBFishman]

@MadelineBinder @AP I agree, it'd be interesting to hear their perspectives, but vaccinations & immunity are not their specialty, so they aren't the best experts on this issue. And given their low vax rate & support of the misinfo-based anti-vax movement, it looks like they oppose the best experts.

[The Associated Press @AP]

Public health advocates are alarmed by the number of chiropractors who have hitched themselves to the anti-vaccine movement and used their sheen of medical expertise to undermine the nation's response to COVID-19. https://t.co/PDPg37iIa5

[Zack Fishman @ZBFishman]

@Cpn_America @Salon @AmandaMarcotte So perhaps expectations could be made clearer as to your chances of undergoing a BT case (only ~1-in-1000 vaxxed Americans have gotten it, if I remember correctly), but there's no doubt that it's an effective vaccine.

It just needs to be paired with greater widespread adoption.

[Zack Fishman @ZBFishman]

@Cpn_America @Salon @AmandaMarcotte ... A quick Google search shows that MMR (88-97%) and polio (90-99%) vaccines are only slightly better than COVID (~90% for hospitalizations, lower for cases), but we aren't exposed those potentially several times per day, which makes BT cases for them much less likely.

[Zack Fishman @ZBFishman]

@Cpn_America @Salon @AmandaMarcotte In other words, breakthrough cases are possible for all vaccinated-against infections, but the reason we see it happen relatively often for COVID is because it's so darn contagious.

Our COVID vaccines are excellent, but BT cases are more likely with more exposure to the virus.

[Zack Fishman @ZBFishman]

@Cpn_America @Salon @AmandaMarcotte No vaccine provides 100% protection against infection, and the word "immunity" in this definition does not imply that. (Oxford defines immunity as "the ability of an organism to resist a particular infection;" one can "resist" an infection and still ultimately be infected.)

[Zack Fishman @ZBFishman]

@a_snabes @NewsGuardRating Thank you, Anne!

[Zack Fishman @ZBFishman]

It's time for a bio change! I just began work as an analyst @NewsGuardRating, where I'll be rating news & info sites for reliability and transparency, with a focus on science & climate content.

It'll be great to help build a universal standard for trust across the internet!