One Year at the Center of the Infodemic
Jump to see each section: For more than a year, we’ve been experiencing two pandemics — COVID-19, the disease ravaging the world, and the infodemic of rumors, hoaxes, and malicious disinformation surrounding it. Snopes has been at the center of the latter. Desperate for information about a terrifying, deadly plague, readers grabbed any information they could and asked us to investigate. And we did. One year on, we’re ready to share what we’ve learned about the infodemic — the year misinformation swallowed the world. By David Mikkelson As Americans took in the shock and horror of ...
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