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Fact-checking may be important, but it won’t help Americans learn to disagree better

Recommended Reading / January 25th, 2022 / By "The Conversation" Contributor

Entering the new year, Americans are increasingly divided. They clash not only over differing opinions on COVID-19 risk or abortion, but basic facts like election counts and whether vaccines work.

Facts And Fact Checking, Misinformation And Disinformation, COVID-19 Misinformation

Media Bias Alert: Incidental COVID-19 Hospitalizations Spark Confusion Across The Political Spectrum

Bias / January 18th, 2022 / By Antonio Ferme

Hospitals have recently began distinguishing between primary and incidental COVID-19 cases, resulting in criticism and confusion from news outlets and other voices across the spectrum.

Media Bias, Anthony Fauci, Bias By Omission, CDC, Children, Coronavirus, Coronavirus Vaccine, COVID-19 Misinformation, Hospitalizations, Omicron Variant, Polarization, Public Health, Rochelle Walensky, Sonia Sotomayor, Vaccine Mandates

Partisan Divide Among Republicans, Democrats About Covid Risks

Bias / September 22nd, 2021 / By Julie Mastrine

What are the chances somebody with COVID-19 must be hospitalized? Your perception may vary depending on your political leaning.

Media Bias, Misinformation And Disinformation, Coronavirus, COVID-19 Misinformation

Joe Rogan, Ivermectin, and False Stories: The Weekend in Media Bias

Bias / September 7th, 2021 / By Julie Mastrine

There are massively competing narratives about ivermectin’s efficacy in treating COVID-19, and it all shows in media bias.

Misinformation And Disinformation, Media Bias, COVID-19 Misinformation, Coronavirus, Joe Rogan, FDA, Ivermectin

Facts vs Myths: Did Donald Trump Tell People to Inject Bleach?

Misinformation Watch / August 15th, 2021 / By Ethan Horowitz

Historic gaffe, or media overreaction? Donald Trump's comments about bleach during a COVID-19 press briefing last year have been covered very differently from the left and the right.

Donald Trump, Coronavirus, COVID-19 Misinformation, Trump Administration, Media Bias, Misinformation Watch

Media Bias and The Lab Leak Theory: A Comprehensive Look

Bias / May 28th, 2021 / By Julie Mastrine

The media sphere appears to have undergone a shift in narrative when it comes to the theory COVID-19 emerged from a Chinese laboratory.

Media Bias, NPR, New York Times, Washington Post, Coronavirus, COVID-19 Misinformation, Wuhan Lab, Liberal Media Bias

Is AllSides Spreading Misinformation by Covering ‘Plandemic’?

News / May 12th, 2020 / By AllSides Staff

Over the weekend, a clip from a documentary titled “Plandemic” went viral , prompting censorship from YouTube, Facebook and Vimeo, and an onslaught of media coverage that roundly condemned the video as containing misinformation, falsehoods, and conspiracy theories. The clip is still...

Misinformation And Disinformation, COVID-19 Misinformation

Fake News Alert: Fact-checking What Trump Actually Said About Disinfectant

News / April 28th, 2020 / By Henry A. Brechter

During the White House coronavirus press briefing on April 23, President Donald Trump set off a firestorm of mudslinging and misinformation when he inquired about possibly using disinfectant to treat people with COVID-19. Fact checkers were all over the place after Trump made the comments...

Media Bias, Media Industry, Facts And Fact Checking, Fake News, Donald Trump, Coronavirus, Public Health, COVID-19 Misinformation

Tag: COVID-19 Misinformation