Survey spanning the U.S., Spain, Germany, Britain, Argentina and South Korea comes as tech giants try to clamp down on online falsehoods.
The analysis, published Wednesday by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford, comes as Facebook and Google say they've pulled out all the stops to clamp down on how misinformation about Covid-19 is shared on their networks. Tech giants continue toAdvertisement
"The incentives that generate a lot of the misinformation are still there," Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, director of the Reuters Institute and co-author of the study, told POLITICO. "Nothing will solve this problem on its own. It's going to take greater collaboration."
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