Indledning
Slide 2 - Within January 2020, the first full month in which the outbreak was known, Time recorded 41,000 English-language articles containing the term "coronavirus", of which 19,000 made it to headlines.
This was compared with the Kivu Ebola epidemic, which had 1,800 articles and 700 headlines in August 2018.
Paul Levinson, a researcher in communications and media studies, attributed this wide disparity to backlash from perceived overcoverage of the 2014 Ebola outbreak, coupled with concerns regarding Chinese censorship of the coverage.
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Media Coverage of the COVID-19 Pandemic
FAKE NEWS
- Slide 13 - Resistance/susceptibility based on ethnicity
- Slide 14 - RAISE OF XENOPHOBIA BECAUSE OF COVID-19
- Slide 15 – Finally, PREVENTION
- Slide 16 – the last but not least - VACCINE MISSINFORMATION
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Slide 6 - Early in the pandemic, a conspiracy theory emerged that the virus had been bio-engineered by China at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
One early source of this theory was former Israeli secret service officer Dany Shoham, who gave an interview to The Washington Times regarding the lab.
Later, US politicians began propagating the idea, including Senator Tom Cotton, President Donald Trump, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
Slide 7 - Some people have alleged that the coronavirus was stolen from a Canadian virus research lab by Chinese scientists.
Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada said that this had "no factual basis".The stories seem to have been derived from a July 2019 news article stating that some Chinese researchers had their security access to the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg, a Level 4 virology lab, revoked after a Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigation.
The article was published by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). Responding to the conspiracy theories, the CBC stated that "CBC reporting never claimed the two scientists were spies, or that they brought any version of the coronavirus to the lab in Wuhan".
Slide 8 - According to London-based The Economist, plenty of conspiracy theories exist on China's internet about COVID-19 being the CIA's creation to keep China down.
According to an investigation by ProPublica, such conspiracy theories and disinformation have been propagated under the direction of China News Service, the country's second largest government-owned media outlet controlled by the United Front Work Department.
Global Times and this News Agency have similarly been implicated in propagating disinformation related to COVID-19's origins.
NBC News however has noted that there have also been debunking efforts of US-related conspiracy theories posted online, with a WeChat search of "Coronavirus is from the U.S." reported to mostly yield articles explaining why such claims are unreasonable.
Slide 9 - In February 2020, BBC News reported that conspiracy theorists on social media groups alleged a link between coronavirus and 5G mobile networks, claiming that the Wuhan and Diamond Princess outbreaks were directly caused by electromagnetic fields and by the introduction of 5G and wireless technologies.
Conspiracy theorists have alleged that the pandemic was a cover-up for a 5Grelated illness. In March 2020, Thomas Cowan, a holistic medical practitioner who trained as a physician and operates on probation with the Medical Board of California, alleged that COVID-19 is caused by 5G.
He based this on the claims that African countries had not been affected significantly by the pandemic and Africa was not a 5G region.
Cowan also falsely alleged that the viruses were waste from cells that were poisoned by electromagnetic fields, and that historical viral pandemics coincided with major developments in radio technology.
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