If disinformation is a public health risk, it is unethical to broadcast Trump live or tweet his false claims without context & fact-checks:
e-pluribusunum.org/2020/03/11/if-…
Put lies in epistemic quarantine.
Inoculate the public with facts.
Deny medical misinfo oxygen.
Verify, then verify.
If publishers & producers don’t change how they report on Trump’s disinformation viruses, starting today, public health will be put at even more risk.
The pandemic has worsened due to an expanding global #infodemic, including targeted #covid19 campaigns: axios.com/coronavirus-mi…
Fact-checking any POTUS is hard; Chris Wallace showed what's possible, challenging BS & editing fact-checks into an interview washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/…
…but President Trump will keep repeating debunked lies: washingtonpost.com/graphics/polit…
He believes conspiracies:
If this POTUS wanted to accurately inform Americans about #COVID19 response, he'd stop lying & put Dr. Fauci & @CDCDirector at a @WhiteHouse podium.
Today's "news conference" will be a made-for-TV event at which a narcissist who can't hold rallies will abuse press as hate objects
“It doesn’t always serve the audience to do things live"– @soledadobrien
washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/medi…
It never has during a Trump rally or press "event": the velocity of lies & BS overwhelms the capacity of journalists to fact-check.
Any @debates may be the singular exception in 2020
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