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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNew research explores how conservative media misinformation may have intensified pandemic
Washington Post
Full Headline: New research explores how conservative media misinformation may have intensified the severity of the pandemic
By Christopher Ingraham
June 25, 2020 at 4:48 a.m. MST
The three studies paint a picture of a media ecosystem that entertains conspiracy theories and discourages audiences from taking steps to protect themselves and others
In recent weeks, three studies have focused on conservative medias role in fostering confusion about the seriousness of the coronavirus. Taken together, they paint a picture of a media ecosystem that amplifies misinformation, entertains conspiracy theories and discourages audiences from taking concrete steps to protect themselves and others.
The end result, according to one of the studies, is that infection and mortality rates are higher in places where one pundit who initially downplayed the severity of the pandemic Fox News Sean Hannity reaches the largest audiences.
We are receiving an incredible number of studies and solid data showing that consuming far-right media and social media content was strongly associated with low concern about the virus at the onset of the pandemic, said Irene Pasquetto, chief editor of the Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, which published one of the studies.
Misinformation and conspiracy theories
In April, Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center and Dolores Albarracin of the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign published a peer-reviewed study examining how Americans media diets affected their beliefs about the coronavirus.
The end result, according to one of the studies, is that infection and mortality rates are higher in places where one pundit who initially downplayed the severity of the pandemic Fox News Sean Hannity reaches the largest audiences.
We are receiving an incredible number of studies and solid data showing that consuming far-right media and social media content was strongly associated with low concern about the virus at the onset of the pandemic, said Irene Pasquetto, chief editor of the Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, which published one of the studies.
Misinformation and conspiracy theories
In April, Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center and Dolores Albarracin of the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign published a peer-reviewed study examining how Americans media diets affected their beliefs about the coronavirus.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/06/25/fox-news-hannity-coronavirus-misinformation/
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New research explores how conservative media misinformation may have intensified pandemic (Original Post)
Mike 03
Jun 2020
OP
Nothing more will be done to get a handle on the virus until politicians start dropping like flies.
Autumn
Jun 2020
#3
The irony is the people who will be hardest hit are the Republican voters listening to this crap.
Midnight Writer
Jun 2020
#5
tblue37
(65,487 posts)1. K&R for visibility. nt
Pobeka
(4,999 posts)2. "may have intensified..." *may have* ? !!!
I find these weasel words so infuriating. They cast unreasonable doubt where none exists.
Just drop the "may have". I'll wager 100 out of 100 epidemiologists would agree.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,437 posts)8. Right?!
Of course it did!!!
Autumn
(45,120 posts)3. Nothing more will be done to get a handle on the virus until politicians start dropping like flies.
When it hits them they will pay attention.
Hugin
(33,198 posts)4. My pulse quickens when I see science in action.
I feel faint.
Midnight Writer
(21,795 posts)5. The irony is the people who will be hardest hit are the Republican voters listening to this crap.
Democrats can take reasonable measures to protect themselves.
Republicans believe even the slightest precautions are blasphemous.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,437 posts)7. *may have*?!!