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Cases abound of how the “Covid-19 excuse” has led to the inability of journalists to do their job of reporting medically endorsed effective public health measures, or to challenge lethal disinformation.
“We believe for local news to have a future, it has to be built for people when they truly need information before it is built for people when they are just curious.”
Our research found that posts that came from influencers, as well as women without enormous numbers of followers, and that cited scientists or other scholars, received more likes, comments, retweets and hashtags.
Scire, Sarah. "Google is giving $3 million to news orgs to fact-check vaccine misinformation." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 12 Jan. 2021. Web. 29 Mar. 2024.
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Scire, S. (2021, Jan. 12). Google is giving $3 million to news orgs to fact-check vaccine misinformation. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved March 29, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2021/01/google-is-giving-3-million-to-news-orgs-to-fact-check-vaccine-misinformation/
Chicago
Scire, Sarah. "Google is giving $3 million to news orgs to fact-check vaccine misinformation." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified January 12, 2021. Accessed March 29, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2021/01/google-is-giving-3-million-to-news-orgs-to-fact-check-vaccine-misinformation/.
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