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May 29 8 tweets 3 min read
Excited to share a huge media analysis about police and fentanyl that I worked on for the past many months with @centerforjj. Check it out! justjournalism.org/page/fentanyl-… We coded hundreds of articles to determine, in granular detail, how the media advanced the fentanyl expousre myth. Overwhelmingly, local news acted as a font of misinformation and misreporting. Image