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Paramedics wheel a patient wearing a breathing apparatus into the emergency room at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, Monday, April 6, 2020, in New York. The city continues to see rising numbers of new coronavirus cases. (John Minchillo)

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Fake news makes up a relatively small portion of Americans’ news consumption, research has shown. Throughout 2016, the vast majority of U.S. Facebook users did not share any fake news articles. In the month leading up to the election, fake news sources only made up roughly 1 percent of the average Twitter user’s political news on the platform.

In 2020, however, even small amounts of fake news about coronavirus can have dire consequences. The current public health crisis requires the coordinated actions of individuals — maintaining social distance, buying reasonable quantities of food and supplies, and following the latest medical advice rather than bogus cures.…  Seguir leyendo »

Volunteers waving the Chinese flag send off the China national emergency medical team at the Tianhe airport in Wuhan, China, on Tuesday. (Stringer/AFP/Getty Images)

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In early 1952, the three-year-old People’s Republic of China faced a public relations crisis in the middle of the Korean War. After agreeing to let prisoners of war decide where they wanted to go after hostilities ended, officials were dismayed to learn that more than half of the 170,000 Chinese POWs had opted not to return to mainland China, an embarrassing public rejection of the communist system taking root there.

Desperate to divert the world’s attention from the POW debacle, on Feb. 22, 1952, the Communist Party’s mouthpiece, the People’s Daily, claimed that U.S. forces were waging biological warfare against China.…  Seguir leyendo »