MIT: Our Itch to Share Helps Spread COVID-19 Misinformation
July 10, 2020
July 10, 2020
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, July 10 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news:
To stay current about the Covid-19 pandemic, people need to process health information when they read the news. Inevitably, that means people will be exposed to health misinformation, too, in the form of false content, often found online, about the illness.
Now a study (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0956797620939054) co-authored by MIT scholars conta . . .
To stay current about the Covid-19 pandemic, people need to process health information when they read the news. Inevitably, that means people will be exposed to health misinformation, too, in the form of false content, often found online, about the illness.
Now a study (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0956797620939054) co-authored by MIT scholars conta . . .