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Focus Tag: Misinformation
‘But I Saw It on Facebook’: Hoaxes Are Making Doctors’ Jobs Harder | The New York Times
by Seema Yasmin & Craig Spencer
September 1, 2020
The news came from a colleague — not a doctor but someone who works in the emergency room and has…
‘An unquestionable truth’: Religious misinformation in the coronavirus pandemic | First Draft
by Jaime Longoria, Daniel Acosta Ramos & Madelyn Webb
August 31, 2020
Harmful misinformation about the coronavirus abounds in Latin American Christian communities, with figures such as Gutierrez pushing unproven and potentially…
COVID-19 Beliefs, Behaviors & Norms Survey | MIT
by Sinan Aral and Colleagues
August 28, 2020
Policy and communication responses to COVID-19 can benefit from better understanding of people's baseline and resulting beliefs, behaviors, and norms.…
The real fake news about COVID-19 | Financial Times
by Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan
August 26, 2020
In February, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization, declared that Covid-19 was not the only public health…
What makes fake news feel true when it isn’t? For one thing, hearing it over and over again | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Laura Hazard Owen
August 25, 2020
The growing stream of reporting on and data about fake news, misinformation, partisan content, and news literacy is hard to…
Facebook funnelling readers towards Covid misinformation – study | The Guardian
by Emma Graham-Harrison & Alex Hern
August 19, 2020
Websites spreading misinformation about health attracted nearly half a billion views on Facebook in April alone, as the coronavirus pandemic…
Vaccine nationalism: How geopolitics is shaping responses to the pandemic | First Draft
by Author on Source
August 18, 2020
On August 11, the same day Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that a vaccine for the coronavirus was “ready”, Kremlin…
Profiting from panic: the bizarre bogus cures and scams of the coronavirus era | Empirical Studies of Conflict
by Alaa Ghoneim, Saiful Salihudin, Isra Thange, Anne Wen, Jan Oledan & Jacob N. Shapiro
August 18, 2020
As the world awaits a scientifically proven treatment for COVID-19 alternative and evidence-free remedies such as pure vodka in Fiji or dried…
Coronavirus Doctors Battle Another Scourge: Misinformation | The New York Times
by Adam Satariano
August 18, 2020
An emergency room doctor in Illinois was accused in April of profiting from naming coronavirus as the cause of a…