Study: Single Largest Driver Of Covid Misinformation is Trump!!

President Trump greeting supporters during a trip to Minneapolis on Wednesday.Credit...Erin Schaff/The New York Times

The President has the biggest bully pulpit. This means that Trump is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans. He has discouraged all the measures that would help to mitigate the virus. This is truly criminal behavior. 

Via The New York Times:

WASHINGTON — Of the flood of misinformation, conspiracy theories and falsehoods seeding the internet on the coronavirus, one common thread stands out: President Trump.

That is the conclusion of researchers at Cornell University who analyzed 38 million articles about the pandemic in English-language media around the world. Mentions of Mr. Trump made up nearly 38 percent of the overall “misinformation conversation,” making the president the largest driver of the “infodemic” — falsehoods involving the pandemic.

The study, to be released Thursday, is the first comprehensive examination of coronavirus misinformation in traditional and online media.

“The biggest surprise was that the president of the United States was the single largest driver of misinformation around Covid,” said Sarah Evanega, the director of the Cornell Alliance for Science and the study’s lead author. “That’s concerning in that there are real-world dire health implications.”

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