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Focus Tag: Misinformation
‘But I Saw It on Facebook’: Hoaxes Are Making Doctors’ Jobs Harder | The New York Times
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
An emergency room doctor in Illinois was accused in April of profiting from naming coronavirus as the cause of a…