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A study by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has found that as the type of COVID-19 misinformation rectified by Singapore’s mainstream news media evolved over the course of the pandemic, the role played by the media in debunking those myths became increasingly important to citizens in the nation’s fight to manage the outbreak. Out of 2,000 news articles on COVID-19 published between 1 January to 30 April 2020, the NTU team analysed 164 news articles. The team observed that news reports correcting science and health-related COVID-19 misinformation were dominant at the start of the outbreak due to the uncertainty surrounding the nature of the coronavirus, but then tapered off over the course of the pandemic’s first four months.

Edson tandoc jrNanyang technological universityCentre for information integrityWee kim school of communicationReuters institute for the study of journalismReuters institute digital newsOxford universityKim wee schoolMay oo lwinWee kim schoolHealth communicationDisease outbreak response system conditionProfessor edson tandocReuters instituteInformation integrityReuters institute digital news report