/channels/news_feeds/all/term/super-spreaders/rss en /channels/channels/news/americans-are-super-spreaders-covid-19-misinformation-330229 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Misinformation about COVID-19 is spreading from the United States into Canada, undermining efforts to mitigate the pandemic. A <a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpos.2021.648646/abstract">study</a> led by Ã山ǿ¼é shows that Canadians who use social media are more likely to consume this misinformation, embrace false beliefs about COVID-19, and subsequently spread them.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/social-media-phones-people-small.jpg?itok=VU2Zen0Z" width="160" height="107" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">6 </span><span class="month">April </span><span class="year">2021</span></div></div></div></div></div> Tue, 06 Apr 2021 13:25:48 +0000 webfull 169662 at /channels