The mainstream media is full of fake news, but a new study suggests it is mostly fabricated by right-wing media.
In a series of studies, researchers at the University of Michigan have found that people are more likely to believe false claims about the spread of infectious diseases when they believe it originated from the right-leaning news media.
“We found that the media are more biased when they are presenting false information about infectious diseases,” said Dr. Andrew Kolodny, the study’s lead author and a researcher at the School of Public Health.
“They’re more likely than not to report on such things, but the media outlets are not.”
The researchers looked at the spread rates of coronavirus, measles, malaria and the common cold across different news outlets, which was done through data analysis.
“A lot of the media stories were completely fabricated,” said Kolodney.
“In fact, we found a pretty high correlation between the spread rate of an infectious disease and the number of times a particular story was reported.”
The findings suggest that the spread and spread of an illness is influenced by what the news media report.
“The spread rate is not something that comes from a random process.
It’s based on the fact that the information that’s in the media tends to be false,” said David Kallman, the lead author of the study.”
What we found is that in general, the spread is very strongly correlated with the number and the frequency of the false stories in the news.
So the spread does tend to be associated with the frequency and frequency of those false stories.”
The study focused on news stories from September 2014 to August 2015.
The study was conducted by researchers at Michigan’s Ann Arbor campus.
The researchers surveyed a random sample of people online who reported they were aware of at least one viral disease spread from a media outlet.
They then used social media data to look at how often different viral diseases were reported by different news channels.
“In other words, we looked at how many times different types of viral diseases are being reported on the news,” said Kallmans co-author and doctoral candidate Jody Crampton.
The findings show that the more a news outlet reported the spread, the more likely they were to report the disease.
“That means that a news organization that reports on the spread very frequently is going to report more infectious diseases, because they’re going to have more spread stories,” said Cramton.
“It also means that they’re more inclined to report them in the first place, because those are the stories that are going to be widely reported.”
In the study, the researchers found that misinformation about infectious disease spread rates was significantly more prevalent among right- leaning news outlets.
For instance, people who were aware that the common disease spread was at a rate of 2.4 percent in the United Kingdom reported that news outlets had reported the rate at a higher rate than other news outlets in the UK.
In contrast, people were more likely in Australia to report spreading the disease at a lower rate than others in Australia.
“Australia is one of the most left-leaning countries in the world,” said study co-authors and research fellow in the Department of Journalism and Communication at the Ann Arbor School of Social Work, Stephanie Womack.
“There’s a lot of left-wing and left-behind people there, so it’s a country that really does want to spread its own ideas.”
“It makes sense that if the left-handed are reporting the spread at a much higher rate, it would lead to a higher spread rate.
But it does not seem to have that effect in Australia.””
So, it seems to be a case of people coming from a very right-oriented, left-focused culture reporting infectious disease at an even higher rate,” said Womak.
The study is published in the Journal of Public Media Research.