{"id":4917,"date":"2020-02-28T02:36:14","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T07:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/?p=4917"},"modified":"2020-05-24T22:01:40","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T02:01:40","slug":"why-is-there-so-much-conflicting-information-about-the-coronavirus-and-what-should-we-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/2020\/02\/28\/why-is-there-so-much-conflicting-information-about-the-coronavirus-and-what-should-we-believe\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is there so much conflicting information about the coronavirus, and what should we believe?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"249\" height=\"124\" src=\"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/Webp.net-resizeimage-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/Webp.net-resizeimage-7.jpg 249w, https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/Webp.net-resizeimage-7-165x82.jpg 165w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>February 28, 2020, by Sissel McCarthy,\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/newsliteracymatters.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>News Literacy Matters<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>While public health officials warn of a pandemic, the internet\u2019s frenzied coverage of the coronavirus has already triggered an \u201cinfodemic.\u201d The word infodemic is a relatively new term blending information with epidemic.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It describes the overwhelming amount of information about the coronavirus now populating the internet and social media platforms. Some of it is accurate, but even more is misleading or outright wrong. The situation is so dire that the World Health Organization says that false information is spreading faster than the virus.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsliteracymatters.com\/2020\/02\/28\/q-why-is-there-so-much-conflicting-information-about-the-coronavirus-and-what-should-we-believe\/\">READ MORE.<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 28, 2020, by Sissel McCarthy,\u00a0News Literacy Matters While public health officials warn of a pandemic, the internet\u2019s frenzied coverage of the coronavirus has already triggered an \u201cinfodemic.\u201d The word [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[276,272],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-career-news-and-tips","category-contagion-coverage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4917"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5144,"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4917\/revisions\/5144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}