In 2021, It’s Time to Refocus on Health and Science Misinformation

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Since 2016, the “field of misinformation” has been disproportionately focused on political disinformation, with emphases on both Facebook and Twitter. Globally, the larger threat has been health and science misinformation on a range of platforms.

But the field’s focus was not determined by the communities most affected by misinformation, nor by the relative harm of different types of misinformation.

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