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FIOCRUZ<\/span><\/a> Scientific institutions, such as FIOCRUZ, have created websites to combat fake newsFIOCRUZ<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

An international group of doctors, epidemiologists, and social scientists examined roughly 2,311 opinion pieces, rumors, and conspiracy theories related to the COVID-19 pandemic circulating online, especially on social media and news sites, between December 31, 2019 and April 5 of this year (American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene<\/em>, August 10). They analyzed texts published in 25 languages in 87 countries, including Brazil. Led by a team from the University of New South Wales in Australia, the study found that 24% of false claims related to the disease itself, how it is transmitted, and its lethality. Of all the fake news reports analyzed, 21% were about pandemic control measures and 19% were about COVID-19 treatments and cures. The cause of the infection, including its origin, was the central theme of 15% of the texts. Issues of violence were addressed in 1% of the reports, and the remaining 20% were related to other topics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scientific institutions have created websites to combat fake news","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[220,260],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-381047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","tag-communication","tag-public-health","keywords-coronavirus-en","keywords-covid-19-en","keywords-sars-cov-2-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381047"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":381638,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381047\/revisions\/381638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381047"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=381047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}