WASHINGTON, Oct 2 — US President Donald Trump has been the world’s biggest driver of Covid-19 misinformation during the pandemic, a study from Cornell University said yesterday. A team from the Cornell Alliance for Science evaluated 38 million articles published by English-language,...
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The database they used aggregates coverage from countries such as the United States, Britain, India, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and other African and Asian nations. But the most popular topic by far was what the study authors termed “miracle cures,” which appeared in 295,351 articles — more than the other 10 topics combined.
After miracle cures, the second-most prevalent misinformation topic was that the pandemic was created to advance a “new world order.”
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