People don’t necessarily believe misinformation about COVID-19, but they don’t necessarily believe valid information about the pandemic either, write , professor of government and faculty fellow in the Milstein Program for Technology and Humanity, and , the Clinton Rossiter Professor in American Institutions, in .
“Recently, a video called 'Plandemic' went viral on social media," . "PolitiFact flagged eight fake or misleading claims it made about COVID-19. YouTube and Facebook removed the video; Twitter issued 'unsafe' warnings and blocked relevant hashtags … Such swift, draconian decisions assume not just that the content is ricocheting around the internet—indeed, data on trending and sharing easily corroborate that—but that people remember and believe the it. Do they?â€
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