Study highlights mainstream news media’s role in public health communication during the pandemic
A study by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has found that as the type of COVID-19 misinformation rectified by Singapore s mainstream news media evolved over the course of the pandemic, the role played by the media in debunking those myths became increasingly important to citizens in the nation s fight to manage the outbreak.
Out of 2,000 news articles on COVID-19 published between 1 January to 30 April 2020, the NTU team analyzed 164 news articles.
The team observed that news reports correcting science and health-related COVID-19 misinformation were dominant at the start of the outbreak due to the uncertainty surrounding the nature of the coronavirus, but then tapered off over the course of the pandemic s first four months.
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