Since the start of the coronavirus health crisis, false scientific information has swarmed on social networks, such as Facebook, via messaging like WhatsApp or Telegram, or on videos on Youtube… We also mentioned, in Minute Papillon! the so-called Covid-19 remedies based on fennel, lemon or cocaine…
The phenomenon is global, plays with languages, borders, cultural differences to often propose conspiracy theories.
Faced with this sometimes truncated information, sometimes partially true, sometimes totally far-fetched, there are in particular scientific institutions. Their mobilization is even stronger in times of health crisis.
Global phenomenon
Their goal: to provide the general public with clear and verified information, to bring this public into a world sometimes complicated to grasp, but also to communicate their doubts, even their lack of knowledge ...
Journalists Aymeric Le Gal and Mathilde Cousin have investigated this daily "influence battle" between spreaders of false information and scientific institutions during a pandemic. They relate their survey to the Institut Pasteur, the CNRS and Inserm.
To read their survey in writing, it's here.
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