Devika Khandelwal
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Articles by Devika Khandelwal
Dichotomy of Reading in the Current Milieu
Reading has undergone a significant change in this era of digital media dominance. The days of readers relying just on word-of-mouth recommendations or discoveries made in the bookstore are long gone. The way we choose books and engage with them has drastically altered in the modern period thanks to websites like BookTube and Bookstagram, which provide both opportunities and problems.
Greening Your Space: The Art And Science Of Plants And Planters
In a time where technology and urbanisation rule, the need to get back in touch with nature has become essential to modern life. Including flora in our living areas is not only visually beautiful but also good for our physical and emotional well-being. Any area may be made into a lively, healthful location via the skill and science of employing plants and planters. The Benefits Of Indoor Plants 1. Aesthetic Appeal: Any indoor environment is made calmer and cosier with the addition of plants.
Transform Your Space: Top Home Decoration Tips For Stylish And Inviting Home
Decorating your house gives you the chance to express your style and create a haven that is a reflection of who you are, rather than just filling it with furniture and decor. The appropriate approach to home decor can turn your property into a chic and welcoming haven, whether you're beginning from scratch or hoping to update your existing living area.
Crafting Style: Elevate Your Look With Handcrafted Jewellery Trends And Styling Tips
While trends in the fashion industry come and go, some can encapsulate the spirit of uniqueness and enduring appeal. One such style that has been very popular lately is jewellery made by hand. This trend is about more than just accessorising; it's about standing out, encouraging makers, and appreciating the individuality of handcrafted goods. Handcrafted jewellery, as opposed to mass-produced accessories, provides a close relationship between the materials and the artistry of the maker.
Thinking Of An Exotic Way Of Hosting Gatherings? Here Is How You Can Host A Perfect Tea Party
A traditional tea party is an elegant event that is characterised by timelessness and relaxation. Regardless of whether it is a casual gathering or formal event, one should be attentive to details and have some sophistication. Here are five indispensable tips on how to make your tea party become an enjoyable moment both for you and your friends.
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The comforting weight of a nicely-worn paperback was once the hallmark of a devoted reader. Today, the landscape of analyzing has undergone a dramatic shift. Social media platforms like Bookstagram, with their meticulously curated feeds of lovely book pictures, have become a powerful pressure in influencing analyzing choices. This begs the question: How has the upward thrust of the digital age and the allure of online aesthetics impacted the manner we consume literature?
Exploring Classic Literature's Lasting Impact on Modern Minds
The timeless value of classic literature is sometimes overlooked in the clamour of contemporary diversions, especially in the unrelenting onslaught of the digital age, when knowledge appears and disappears at the touch of a screen. The significant influence of classic literary works is sometimes obscured in our quick-paced, attention-span society.
Mindful Multitasking: Balancing Student Side Hustles and Academics
Students frequently perform a delicate balancing act in today's changing academic scene, mixing the demands of academics with side hustles as a means of pursuing their entrepreneurial aspirations. A harmonic fusion of academics and entrepreneurial energy is required, and that combination is mindful multitasking. The modern student explores fields of invention, creativity, and self-started endeavors in addition to textbooks.
Reading As a Form of Mental Health Therapy
The value of reading as a kind of mental health therapy is significant and ageless in the context of holistic wellbeing. Engaging with books on a deep level goes beyond simple narrative; it becomes a healing process that feeds both the intellect and the spirit. People go on a life-changing adventure, discovering comfort, comprehension, and reconciliation inside the pages of books. Reading provides a haven, a break from the noise of daily life, at its core.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had sexual relations with a minor and had her sign a two and a quarter million dollar non-disclosure agreement so no one would find out about it.
Written by Devika Khandelwal | Jan 18, 2022 12:40:13 PM There is no evidence that Trudeau had sexual relations with a minor and signed an NDA. James Wells, a former British Member of the European Parliament, shared a video clip from the conspiracy show InfoWars on his official Facebook page on January 10.
The COVID-19 vaccine is a transfection agent that will genetically modify us.
Written by Devika Khandelwal | Dec 21, 2021 1:25:00 AM Both the Moderna and the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines are made using messenger RNA (mRNA) technology. mRNA provides instructions on how to build a protein specific to the virus’ surface. The body’s cells use this mRNA to build copies of these proteins, which the body’s immune system then responds to by producing antibodies. This protects the person if they catch the real disease.
People are dropping dead of heart attacks because of COVID-19 vaccines.
There is no evidence that vaccinated people are at a higher risk of heart problems or are more susceptible to heart attacks. In a video widely shared on Facebook and other social media, conspiracy theorist Vernon Coleman claims that “the jabbed will be lucky to last five years.” Coleman bases his theory on the claim that COVID-19 vaccines are causing long-term heart conditions, leading to the vaccinated dying in the next few years of heart problems.
In Germany, vaccinated and unvaccinated people are being separated by a fence in a supermarket.
The photo is not from Germany but from Romania. The fence ensured that people without health passes could only shop for essential items. An Instagram account called "wallofcomedy" shared an image on December 6 with the caption "Too much? Or necessary? 🤔." The image shared is of a supermarket with the text "meanwhile in Germany the vaxxed and non-vaxxed are separated with a fence in a supermarket." In the last 24 hours, the post has garnered over 20k likes and over 25k views.
You shouldn't get a booster shot because many people have "suddenly died" after their COVID-19 vaccine.
Headlines with the phrase "suddenly died" do not imply that someone died after a COVID-19 vaccine. Booster shots are safe and effective. A Facebook user posted an image on November 24 with the caption, "Thinking of getting your booster? Type "suddenly died" into Google... throw in "2021" too. While your there take a look at the yellow card scheme on the government website x." The image is a collage of 9 headlines, all covering death of children.
The herb artemisia absinthium can kill 98 percent of cancer cells in just 16 hours.
Artemisia absinthium does not have cancer-killing properties. Artemisia annua has been used in clinical trials against cancer. A photo was posted on a Facebook page called "Herbs and Natural Remedies" on September 30. The image features a herb with the text "Amazing Herb Kills 98% of Cancer Cells In Just 16 hours (in vitro study)." The caption of the post has a link that takes you to an article posted on a website called herbshealthhappiness.com.
A Bitter Row About Dosa Batter
Indian disinformation campaigns around economic entities often keep nationalism center stage. Targets tend to be foreign companies (such as Amazon or Monsanto) or else whole countries (such as the #BoycottChina social media campaign). However, in the first week of September, we saw two cases where disinformation machinery targeted two homegrown entities instead. The first was a viral WhatsApp message targeting iD Fresh Food, a Bangalore-based company.
A Project Veritas video proves that Johnson & Johnson vaccine is unsafe for children.
It is not confirmed that the men interviewed in the video work for Johnson & Johnson. There is no indication that vaccines are unsafe for children. It is not confirmed that the men interviewed in the video work for Johnson & Johnson. There is no indication that vaccines are unsafe for children.On September 29, 2021, an Instagram page belonging to Project Veritas posted a photo of an article published by InfoWars.
Bill Gates smiled after suggesting that unvaccinated people should be stripped of their Social Security.
Gates smiled very often through the interview. He did not suggest that unvaccinated should be stripped of their Social Security. On August 9, 2021, a link to an article from NewsPunch, a Los Angeles-based fake news website known for spreading conspiracy theories, was posted on Facebook. The NewsPunch article features a video of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, which the site apparently lifted from a CNN Anderson Cooper 360° interview from August 4, 2021.
Reddit CEO Refuses To Remove COVID Misinfo
The top post for almost 12 hours yesterday on r/all – Reddit’s so-called “front page of the internet” – was an open letter from the moderators of some of the largest subreddits, demanding the website's admins take action to remove vaccine and COVID misinformation. Membership in these subreddits number in the tens of millions. “It is clear that even after promising to tackle the problem of misinformation on this site, nothing of substance has been done,” the letter read.
Double Check: How Does OpenVAERS Misrepresent Data?
by Devika Khandelwal and Pallavi Sethi So far, a total of 4.43 billion COVID-19 vaccines doses have been administered worldwide, according to the Financial Times. As several western countries, including the U.K. and U.S, rapidly inoculate people against COVID-19, global anti-vaccine messaging continues to sow fear.
California Woman Behind Anti-Vax Site Outperforming Government Database
By Devika Khandelwal, Nick Backovic and Edie Miller A Logically investigation can reveal that Lizabeth Pearl Willner, also known as Liz Willner, of Oakland, California, is behind the website OpenVAERS. OpenVAERS is a U.S.-focused site that was created in January this year. The project used to live on thearkivist.net, which was created in September 2019, until its owner created a separate website dedicated to the misrepresentation of COVID-19 vaccine data.
Scientists vs Science: Interviews with Mike Yeadon and Robert Malone
COVID-truthers have a science problem. They don’t need more politicians or activists arguing against lockdowns or debating the efficacy of masks. They need scientists – qualified people with proven track records and fancy degrees. Even if these scientists retread the same ground as other covid-skeptic or anti-mRNA-vax influencers, the letters after their names make their messages sound more official and more believable.
Double Check: Who Is Dr. Robert Malone?
By Devika Khandelwal and Alice Franklin A man by the name of Dr. Robert Malone has recently found fame through alternative media outlets, claiming to be the RNA vaccine inventor and spouting out a mishmash of misleading claims. Malone is a scientist. In 1989, he co-wrote a paper titled "Cationic liposome-mediated RNA transfection." While his work on RNA transfection might have been important, his claim to be the “inventor” of RNA vaccines is shaky, to say the least.
Covid lies are tearing through India’s family WhatsApp groups
Getty Images / WIRED In March 2021, after almost one year away from home, I finally went to see my family in India. During the time I had spent away from home, I had started working in the realm of disinformation monitoring, and witnessed the surge of hoaxes and inaccuracies about the pandemic taking over social media. On my first night back in India, while watching TV with my parents, my mom’s phone started buzzing.
Gardaí was responsible for the attack during protests in Dublin
The image circulating is of a senior member of gardaí who had taken possession of evidential material and his photo is being shared out of context. On the afternoon of February 27, 2021, clashes broke out between protesters and gardaí after a protestor directed a firework at the gardaí. Protestors took the streets in Dublin, Ireland, to protest against the lockdown. Video footage surfaced on the internet showing a man lighting a fireworks cannon in the crowd on Grafton Street.
Talking mRNA Vaccines With a Furry Microbiologist
It’s the crossover event you didn’t know you needed: an interview with an mRNA vaccine scientist who is also a furry. Chise has developed a following on Twitter for posting very informative threads about vaccine development and the subsequent rollouts. We got in touch with her to find out more. Thank you so much for agreeing to talk to us! Can you tell me a bit about your work, your area(s) or expertise and how long you’ve been doing it for?
Double Check: Are These 13 Reasons Why Your Kids Shouldn’t Get Vaccinated?
Written by Devika Khandelwal and Alice Franklin A recent article from the influential conspiracy-theory-based site, the Daily Expose (sometimes known as just the Exposé), listed what it alleges are “13 reasons why your kids shouldn’t get vaccinated.” In this listicle, the anonymous author variously misrepresents scientific studies and misinterprets data from legitimate sources, cherry-picking the numbers that suit the publication’s anti-vax agenda.
Double Check: Are Student Loans Crushing Joe Biden's Family?
On February 16, President Joe Biden appeared on a CNN Town Hall hosted by Anderson Cooper. During the Town Hall, Biden answered questions posed by some members of the audience on various topics, including COVID-19, unemployment, and student loans.
Joe Biden died from a heart attack six days ago.
The article was published by a satirical website called 'The Onion' and the claim is untrue.
Fact Checkers on Fact Checking
On December 2, OpIndia, a right-wing Indian news website published a piece railing against the practice of fact checking, calling it a new name for the “same old propaganda journalism” and sarcastically calling fact checkers “unbiased angels descended from above”. At Logically, we took this accusation (mostly) seriously, so we asked some fact checkers from around the world to respond to OpIndia’s claims. You can watch the video we produced below.
Several key states had more ballots cast than registered voters.
Updated data and individual state reporting show no state had more ballots cast than registered voters. As several states were counting votes in the 2020 U.S. presidential race, on election day a rumor that Wisconsin had counted more votes (3,239,920) than it had registered voters (3,129,000) went viral on social media. Twitter users claimed that this was clear evidence of fraud. However, the post was comparing the vote count from 2020 with the number of registered voters from 2018.
Double Check: Do We Still Need Fact Checking in a Biden Presidency?
As the 2020 presidential elections concluded in the United States with Joe Biden as the President-elect, some social media users claimed that there will be no need to fact check the president anymore. I’m a senior fact checker at Logically. I have been closely monitoring and fact checking the 2020 election. Here’s why I think that’s wrong.
States with over 100% eligible voter registration are likely to be committing fraud.
States with over 100% eligible voter registration is not unusual as many do not regularly update their voter rolls. This does not lead to voter fraud. Judicial Watch, a partisan conservative organization, published a study in Oct. 2020 wherein they claimed they found 1.8 million 'ghost voters' or more registered voters than eligible voting-age citizens in 29 states, and warned of dirty elections and voter fraud.
Fraudulent votes were cast in Michigan using the identities of dead people
All three people who voted are alive and most likely relatives of people born in the early 1900s and inherited their relatives' names. A Twitter user called Essential Fleccas claims that three people who are already dead voted for Joe Biden in Michigan. According to the video published by the handle, June Aiken (120 years old), Donna Brydges (119 years old) and William Bradley (118 years old) voted for Biden via absentee ballots. Rudolph W.
If the media mentions that someone "died after a short illness," then they are covering up a vaccine death.
The phrase "short illness" is used when one does want to reveal the actual cause of death or the cause is not publicly known. A Facebook post shared by a Facebook page called "The Light Truthpaper" has claimed that any mention of death after a short illness is a vaccine death that has been covered up by the government or the state. The post features an image with a collage of different headlines, all of which report that someone died after a short illness.
Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi was attacked by a woman because of his policies on COVID-19.
The video is from 2015 when Prime Minister was attacked by a woman protesting against the European Central Bank. A video uploaded on September 4 on a Facebook group called "What you're not supposed to know" shows a woman attacking the Italian Prime Minister during a press conference. The video is accompanied with the caption, "Lucky Italian Prime Minister...
People are protesting outside the Rothschilds Castle in Switzerland.
People are protesting against coronavirus measures outside Bundeshaus, Switzerland's Parliament building. A video uploaded by a Facebook user on September 20 shows a clash between police and protesters outside of a building. The police are using water cannons against the protesters. The caption on the video claims that the protest is taking place outside the Rothschild castle in Switzerland. The caption reads: "Rothschilds Castle in Switzerland.
Gun Control: Lessons from the East
This week’s attack on two mosques in New Zealand reflects a paradigm shift: the erosion of liberal values and the rise of civilisationalism at the expense of the nation state. So do broader phenomena like wide spread Islamophobia with the crackdown on Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang as its extreme, and growing ant-Semitism These phenomena are fuelled by increasing intolerance and racism enabled by far right and world leaders as well as ultra-conservatives and jihadists.
The Marriage of Social Media and Social Justice
People say “seeing is believing”, but that’s wrong. The truth is, “I will see it when I believe it”. As an academic psychologist I have spent years, and run dozens of experiments, looking at unconscious or implicit bias and its consequences. I consider factors such as looks, ethnicity, age and gender, to see if they influence world-of-work decisions such as hiring, promotion, salary.
Explaining Gendered Wartime Violence: Rohingya Ethnic Cleansing
Embattled former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak was the main loser in last month’s election upset that returned Mahathir Mohamad to power as his country’s anti-corruption crusader. Yet, Mr. Razak is not the only one who may be paying the price for allegedly non-transparent and unaccountable governance.
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