Ionel's Media Bias and Propaganda Reading List (US emphasis)

Sources:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_bias
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_bias_in_the_United_States
https://www.salon.com/2010/10/17/wikileaks_7/
https://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/WikiLeaks:Submissions
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_in_the_United_States
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defense_Authorization_Act_for_Fiscal_Year_2013#Smith%E2%80%93Mundt_Modernization_Act_of_2012
https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/media-literacy/2021/should-you-trust-media-bias-charts/
https://www.oecd.org/en/topics/sub-issues/disinformation-and-misinformation.html
https://www.cjr.org/innovations/measure-media-bias-partisan.php
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2023-06/Digital_News_Report_2023.pdf
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/12/22/how-twitter-hid-us-military-info-ops-from-the-public/
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2023/02/10/feeling-manipulated-how-uncle-sam-perfected-the-information-state/
https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Weapons-of-Mass-Distraction-Foreign-State-Sponsored-Disinformation-in-the-Digital-Age.pdf
https://carnegieendowment.org/research/2024/01/countering-disinformation-effectively-an-evidence-based-policy-guide?lang=en¢er=global
https://www.coe.int/en/web/campaign-free-to-speak-safe-to-learn/dealing-with-propaganda-misinformation-and-fake-news
https://jacobin.com/2024/02/new-york-times-anti-palestinian-bias
https://www.economist.com/1843/2023/12/14/when-the-new-york-times-lost-its-way

The short history behind the first mRNA vaccines against COVID

mRNA vaccine history:
https://www.statnews.com/2020/11/10/the-story-of-mrna-how-a-once-dismissed-idea-became-a-leading-technology-in-the-covid-vaccine-race/
https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2021/the-long-history-of-mrna-vaccines
https://cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/52424.html

Safety:
https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/covid-vaccine-came-out-super-quickly-heres-why-its-safe

Stage 3 trials:
https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-detail/pfizer-and-biontech-conclude-phase-3-study-covid-19-vaccine

Short COVID vaccine history in Romanian:
https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/coronavirus-response/safe-covid-19-vaccines-europeans/how-are-vaccines-developed-authorised-and-put-market_ro

Similarities and dissimilarities between COVID-19 virus and previous corona viruses:
https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-micro-110520-023212

mRNA vaccine technology:
https://www.nature.com/articles/nrd.2017.243
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41573-021-00283-5
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10384963/
https://jbiomedsci.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12929-023-00977-5

Pharmacovigilance:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9589581/
https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8247/17/6/807
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8662238/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10043970/

Misinformation:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9858741/

GBS and COVID vaccines:
https://www.jwatch.org/na56706/2023/11/20/covid-19-and-vaccines-risk-factors-guillain-barr-syndrome
"[...] cohort of 3,193,951 patients [...] 76 patients diagnosed with GBS [...] Adenovirus-vectored vaccines showed a 2.4 times increased risk of GBS that was about seven times higher compared with mRNA-based vaccines."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10896967
"We included 17 cohorts from 13 studies, collecting 1450 GBS cases over a total of 1,058,927,070 administered vaccine doses. The random-effects model yielded 1.25 GBS cases per million vaccine doses (95%CI 0.21; 2.83). [...] The GBS rate for adenovirus-vectored vaccines was five times higher than for mRNA vaccines."

1980s joke with 3 guys in the desert and their fear of bedouins

Two guys were walking through the desert, one carrying a bicycle and the other a phone booth. As they continue walking, they meet a third, who was carrying an anvil. The one with the anvil asks: "Why are you carrying a bicycle?" "Well, when the Bedouins come, I get on it and run as fast as I can. Isn't my idea super cool?" "Yeah, why are you carrying that phone booth, man? Telephone booth on your back, I've never seen anything like it!" "Stop wondering! When the Bedouins come, I enter the cabin and call for help. Isn't my idea super cool?" "But tell us please, why do you carry that anvil? "Well, when the Bedouins come, we run. And if I see them catch up to us, I drop the anvil to run faster!! Now, whose idea is best?"

Mergeau doi tipi prin deșert, unu căra în spate o bicicletă, iar celălalt, o cabină telefonică. Tot mergând ei așa se întâlnesc cu un al treilea, care căra o nicovală. Cel cu nicovala întreabă: - De ce cari, mă, ditamai bicicleta după tine? - Păi, stai așa, când vin beduinii, mă sui pe ea și fug cât pot. Nu-i așa că-i super tare ideea mea? - Da’ tu de ce cari, omule, cabina aia telefonică? Hai că-i tare, auzi, cabină telefonică în spinare, n-am mai văzut așa ceva! - Nu te mai mira așa! Când vin beduinii, intru în cabină și dau telefon după ajutor. Nu-i așa că-i super tare ideea mea? - Dar ia spune-ne, tu de ce, mă rog, cari nicovala aia? - Păi, când vin beduinii o iau la fugă. Și dacă văd că mă ajung, arunc nicovala ca să fug mai repede!! Ia ziceți acum, a cui idee e mai tare?