By the time these papers are distilled to an NPR report, its simplified to an extent that nuance is lost. There are many papers on this, which will answer your

By the time these papers are distilled to an NPR report, its simplified to an extent that nuance is lost. There are many papers on this, which will answer your question. The transmission cascades and cascade sizes for false info are studied. Misinformation for example is repeated, like a nuclear feedback loop, or more like gossip being repeated between people till it becomes a “fact”. Science related info propagates through the network only a few times, as if people who read it understand it and move on.