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DESinformação sobre o Covid 19

O site #Breitbart é um desses veículos de desinformação, cujo objetivo é político-cultural. Teve papel ativo na eleição de #Trump e se notabiliza por disseminar #teoriasconspiratórias. Cresceu muito, mas perdeu espaço com o movimento de+

desmonetização (“defund”), #SleepingGiants (tem a versão brasileira, o #SleepingGiantsBrasil). Recentemente, voltou à tona, a teoria de que o #Covid19 teria sido criado em laboratórios, com macacos. Até aí, normal, "normalmente bizarro", para os nossos tempos, mas quando uma+

do porte da #Fox dá voz a um desses conspiracionistas, uma mensagem no #Facebook tem 14.000.000 de visualizações e o presidente Trump compartilha uma delas, é porque estamos perdendo uma guerra pela informação.
Peço que compartilhem todas as mensagens desmistificadoras de boatos+

absurdos, todas. Vencer a ignorância não dependerá de leis, mas de nós.

Do New York Times:

Information contagion

Sinclair Broadcast Group recently published an online interview with a conspiracy theorist (popular.info/p/congressman-…)+

who claimed that Dr. Anthony Fauci created the coronavirus using monkey cells. Sinclair — which operates almost 200 television stations — has also run segments downplaying the severity of the virus. (mediamatters.org/sinclair-broad…)+

Fox News has repeatedly run segments (bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…) promoting ideas that scientists consider false or that question the seriousness of the virus.+

Breitbart published a video this week in which a group of doctors claimed that masks were unnecessary and that the drug hydroxychloroquine cured the virus. It received 14 million views in six hours on Facebook, my colleague Kevin Roose reports. (

https://twitter.com/kevinroose/status/1287906751069581318?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20200729&instance_id=20734&nl=the-morning®i_id=62249382&segment_id=34620&te=1&user_id=390811fdaf2e82c8d0bfdccba3d66cd8

)+

(President Trump tweeted a link to it. nytimes.com/2020/07/28/tec…)

Why is the U.S. enduring a far more severe virus outbreak than any other rich country?

There are multiple causes, but one of them is the size and strength of right-wing media organizations that+

frequently broadcast falsehoods. The result is confusion among many Americans about scientific facts that are widely accepted, across the political spectrum, in other countries.

Canada, Japan and much of Europe have no equivalent to Sinclair — whose local newscasts reach+

about 40 percent of Americans — or Fox News. Germany and France have widely read blogs that promote conspiracy theories. “But none of them have the reach and the funding of Fox or Sinclair,” Monika Pronczuk, a Times reporter based in Europe, told me.

Fox is particularly+

important, because it has also influenced President Trump’s response to the virus, which has been slower and less consistent (nytimes.com/2020/07/18/us/…) than that of many other world leaders.“Trump repeatedly failed to act to tame the spread, even though that would have helped him+

politically,” The Washington Post’s Greg Sargent has written (washingtonpost.com). The headline on Sargent’s opinion column is: “How Fox News may be destroying Trump’s re-election hopes.”

Another factor creating confusion: The lack of an aggressive response to virus+

misinformation from Facebook and YouTube. Judd Legum, author of the Popular Information newsletter, has identified some of this misinformation(popular.info/p/how-facebook…), and the two companies have responded by removing the posts he cited. But Legum told me he had pointed out only+

only a small fraction of the false information, and the companies had done relatively little to remove it proactively.
Twitter took a slightly more aggressive step yesterday, putting temporary limits on the account of Donald Trump Jr. (nytimes.com/2020/07/28/bus…)+

after he shared the false #Breitbart video.

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Imagens: uacrisis.org/en/top-conspir…
Artigo do NYT: “The Morning”, July 29, 2020.

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