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mahatmakanejeeves

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Mon May 11, 2020, 03:56 PM May 2020

Social media used to spread, create COVID-19 falsehoods

Walter Shaub Retweeted

Scientists on inexperienced reporters: “They can sometimes lean too heavily on traditional journalism values like balance, novelty & conflict. In doing so they lift up outlier and inaccurate counterarguments & hypotheses, unnecessarily muddying the water.”


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Social media used to spread, create COVID-19 falsehoods (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves May 2020 OP
Exactly. Fox News used to promote themselves as "Fair & Balanced". . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz May 2020 #1
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