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In the WP article the first line states "One tweet claimed coronavirus numbers were intentionally inflated, adding, “It’s hard to know what to believe.” Another
by millzlane 6y ago
In the WP article the first line states "One tweet claimed coronavirus numbers were intentionally inflated, adding, “It’s hard to know what to believe.” Another warned, “Don’t trust Dr. Fauci.”"
I'd say with strong confidence that this would classify as disinformation.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/turning-point-teens-disinformation-trump/2020/09/15/c84091ae-f20a-11ea-b796-2dd09962649c_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/turning-point-teens-...
- sokoloff 6y agoI do find some of the methods to categorize COVID deaths and some of the early fear-mongering quite hard to believe. This could easily fall into the "it's hard to know what to believe" summarization. Side note: I'm not being paid to spread misinformation and I probably didn't create a news.yc account 12 years ago and post fairly consistently while patiently lying in wait to sprinkle a little bit of COVID misinformation in this thread.