The six sources of COVID-19 misinformation

Misinformation from the top

One of the main sources of misinformation has come 'from the top', meaning it has come from political leaders, prime ministers, presidents, and government healthcare administrators.

The misinformation we have seen here is based on three different things.

First, we have seen how country leaders have intentionally misinformed the public to hide their own failures. Some countries have been worse than others in this regard.

Secondly, we have seen how health officials/ministers have provided inaccurate and misleading guidance because they were protecting something else. Sometimes this wasn't done with malice. Sometimes it was just to try to manage the crisis with whatever limited resources were available at the time.

For instance, here in Denmark, we saw a perfect example of this back in March 2020. Back then, the country of Denmark (like so many others) was running out of masks, and we were desperately trying to order more to keep our healthcare workers safe.

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