Misinformation spreads way faster than the corrections

[Nevilledog]

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Josh Jordan
@NumbersMuncher
16,000 retweets and 38,000 likes for a very deceptive clip.

The CDC director is referring only to the tiny number of deaths (~40 out of 1.2 million) of *vaccinated* people to show just how effective the vaccines have been.

Misinformation spreads way faster than the corrections.

Clay Travis
@ClayTravis
The CDC director just said over 75% of “covid deaths” occurred in people with at least four comorbidities. Since Biden can’t shut down covid, suddenly all this data is getting shared publicly.
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Take a minute to watch the unedited version of Rochelle Walensky's answer against the clip that Clay Travis and others have been sharing.

Then ask yourself why someone would chop off the context of the answer before they deceptively shared it...

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It's hard to overstate how quickly misinformation spreads.

The edited video declared the CDC was saying 75% of covid deaths were with four+ comorbities, but she was talking about the few deaths from the *vaccinated.*

These four tweets alone have over 25k retweets & 105k likes.
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These people don't care about the correction, will never bring it up, and this disinformation will become canon to the Covid deniers.

[msongs]

1. twitter is way worse than facebook yet it has taken over nt

[Nevilledog]

3. I never did Facebook, so I can't agree or disagree with that.

Articles & studies I've read seem to say that more people come across disinformation on Facebook.

I just don't think the same subset of people use Twitter and Facebook.

[Phoenix61]

2. I saw one of the tweets on Facebook and

wondered about it. Figures it was bs.

[BadgerKid]

4. It's worse when the misinformation hits your family

And some members latch on to it.

I’m thinking that confirmation bias goes a long way toward misinformation spreading faster than corrected/contextualized information.

[Nevilledog]

6. Absolutely.

They lap up the misinformation/disinformation so long as it supports their baseless beliefs.

[keithbvadu2]

5. Cokie's Law states that it does not matter if it is true or not. It's out there.

Mission accomplished: they got the message out to their base....

Cokie's Law - about politics and media coverage...

Cokie's Law states that it does not matter if it is true or not. It's out there.

Cokie Roberts journalist, author, reporter

Then they can apologize in a much smaller forum. (If they do)

[Nevilledog]

7. Yup. It's intentional and there are zero consequences for lying.