Creating misinformation: how a headline in The BMJ about covid-19 spread virally
Creating misinformation: how a headline in The BMJ about covid-19 spread virally
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制造错误信息：《BMJ》中有关 covid-19 的头条新闻如何病毒式传播
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2020
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H. Nordenstedt
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Maike Winters;Ben Oppenheim;Jonas Pick;H. Nordenstedt
新型冠状病毒的传播伴随着错误信息的病毒式传播。错误信息很容易被制造出来，正如《英国医学杂志》（The BMJ）最近一篇关于预印本的新闻报道所显示的那样，该报道声称“英国医院收治的新冠肺炎患者中有三分之一死亡”。1在Twitter上，BMJ补充说：“根据该研究的一位作者的引用，死亡率与埃博拉病毒相当。不出意料，这条新闻...
The spread of the novel coronavirus has been accompanied by a viral spread of misinformation. Misinformation is easily created, as shown by a recent news story in The BMJ about a preprint, claiming that “a third of covid-19 patients admitted to UK hospitals die.”1 On Twitter, The BMJ added “putting the fatality rate on par with Ebola,” on the basis of a quote from one of the study’s authors. Unsurprisingly, this generated news …