RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/May 2021

May 2021
An online petition has been set up to move the American-born French exotic dancer, WWII resistance hero and civil rights activist to the Panthéon in Paris, which would make her the sixth woman and the first black female at the venerable mausoleum. Already it has received over 30 000 signatures in over a month. There are growing concerns about the objectivity of the French news channel CNews, informally known as the French Fox News, over frequent references to crime, immigration, violence and drugs. A study by the Center for Countering Digital Hate found that 65 percent of all anti-vaccine content on social media originates from just 12 individuals, the Disinformation Dozen. [https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/05/how-will-we-remember-covid-19-pandemic/618397/ How will we remember COVID-19? Not in the way you think.]

The Sunday Independent has sacked Irish columnist Eoghan Harris after discovering he had a secret anonymous sock puppet Twitter account, breaking contractual terms.