389 - The Perfect Storm Behind Ongoing COVID-19 Misinformation
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English - October 27, 2021 10:00 - 22 minutes - 41.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 559 ratingsNews Health & Fitness Medicine covid19 education globalhealth health medicine coronavirus covid novelcoronavirus publichealth science Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Where are we now on combating mis- and disinformation about COVID and vaccines that has run rampant online since the early days of the pandemic? Clint Watts and Rachel Chernaskey of Miburo, a digital consulting company that focuses on misinformation and extremism, talk with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about the current ecosystem of persisting misinformation, where we are in terms of combating purveyors, and what can be done on the individual, local, and societal level to drown out harmful noise.