Citation

Canaries in the Coal Mine: COVID-19 Misinformation and Black Communities

Author:
Collins-Dexter, Brandi
Year:
2020

Even as Black people are disproportionately dying from the virus due to systemic racism, harmful inaccuracies about COVID-19 are metastasizing in Black online spaces. Using multi-site digital ethnography, Shorenstein Center Fellow Brandi Collins-Dexter tracked and identified the spread of this disinformation, and makes recommendations on how to combat it.