Tall stories: News media's role in spreading misinformation during Covid-19 charted

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Of the more than 5,600 distinct misinformation narratives on Covid-19 circulating the world in 2020, news media helped spread at least one in eight - according to new Press Gazette analysis A database of 5,613 false storylines about the virus from Princeton University's Empirical Studies of Conflict Project (ESOC) found that in the case of 737 story lines, media outlets helped circulate the misinformation. The list of misinformation narratives was compiled by researchers who monitored media reports, social media and fact checks to identify false stories emerging in different regions. The data does not suggest that the media outlet in…

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