How Bad Is The COVID-19 Misinformation Epidemic?

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Compared to research on the 2016 election, preliminary findings on coronavirus misinformation suggest more people are seeing—and believing—misinformation now. It may have something to do with the challenge of understanding a new disease.

Many Americans are also having difficulty discerning accurate information. For example, in the Cornell paper, when shown headlines about treatments for COVID-19, 40 percent of respondents, on average, judged real headlines in this category to be true, and the remaining 60 percent were “almost evenly divided between identifying the headline as false or acknowledging that they were unsure.”

“They still only believe true content like 65-ish percent of the time and the false content they believe like 25 percent of the time, so not great but at least there’s a difference,” Pennycook said. “If instead you ask them which ones they would share on social media, they’re terrible at discerning between them. They don’t, basically.”

 

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It shouldn’t be too hard to realize that you can’t get a virus from waves from 5g.

Look at all of Fauci’s interviews.... he keeps changing on things even as simple as mask wearing!

Or it may have something to do with ignorance and stupidity

That looks like GoldGloveTV in the Background

Or.... it could be that the news media failed the general public so much and so often that they're looking for alternative sources who have no journalistic integrity. Clicks and views.. Clicks and views.. Clicks and views.. Clicks and views..

Perhaps demonizing education?

and years ago, they thought the human body, travelling on a train at over thirty miles per hour would result in death, we haven't really come far have we, we may, in some cases, even have gone backwards

Dont wear masks, wear masks, lives up to 6 weeks on surfaces doesn't live at all, kids spread it, actually they don't and you wonder why people don't know what to beleive.

It may have something to do with the challenge of people understanding what a legitimate source of information is.

They should..

Nope...it’s you jackwagon!!! Like you don’t know? ..I cannot imaginge how disgusting you feel about the deaths you directly cause by fake race hate and building in that tinderbox....time and time sgain....honestly you have NO morals..good luck...H-bound

Might be stating the bleeding obvious but all the idiots seem to be from the Right. It’s like they hate the truth.

Investigate Covid-19 and 45th.

No it’s called we are not believing the bs anymore! Take a look around- is this about a virus or an election?

Only a few days ago people were still being arrested for not wearing masks or social distancing. Today people are not being arrested for burning buildings down. But please, tell us more about misinformation... 🤔

And it may be that you're just putting more of it out now.

I think it has more to do with sub-standard education.

Biden supporters keep talking about chugging Clorox Falsely attributed to POTUS

No. It's the ignorance of fox news and our 'president' Spreading lies and killing America. Nothing else.

And Liar Trump.

It may have something to do with public health experts changing their stories so frequently about the disease and possible preventive measures and the completely garbage predictive models that were used to justify an economic calamity.

Chauvin needs life in prison

It has to do with the President being the foment point for misinformation

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