{"id":20475,"date":"2020-10-01T09:19:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T09:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/salud\/factor-importante-desinformacion-ingles-coronavirus-donald-trump"},"modified":"2020-10-01T09:19:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T09:19:00","slug":"el-factor-ms-importante-de-desinformacin-en-ingls-sobre-el-coronavirus-es-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/el-factor-ms-importante-de-desinformacin-en-ingls-sobre-el-coronavirus-es-donald-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u201cmost important factor\u201d of misinformation in English about the coronavirus is Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/3ff596\/trump-2546104_1920\/1024_2000.jpg\" alt=\"El \"factor m\u00e1s importante\" de desinformaci\u00f3n en ingl\u00e9s sobre el coronavirus es donald trump\">\n    <\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Cornell University <a href=\"https:\/\/int.nyt.com\/data\/documenttools\/evanega-et-al-coronavirus-misinformation-submitted-07-23-20-1\/080839ac0c22bca8\/full.pdf\">han analizando 38 millones de art\u00edculos<\/a> about the coronavirus pandemic <strong>en los medios de comunicaci\u00f3n en ingl\u00e9s de todo el mundo<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 1 --><\/p>\n<p>Mentions to the president <strong>donald trump<\/strong> representaron casi el 38 % de la desinformaci\u00f3n general, lo que convierte al presidente en el mayor impulsor de falsedades relacionadas con la pandemia.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 2 --><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Fake News<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Los investigadores buscaron identificar todas las menciones de informaci\u00f3n err\u00f3nea en los &#8216;medios tradicionales&#8217;<\/strong>. Incluyeron art\u00edculos de verificaci\u00f3n de hechos que corrigieron la informaci\u00f3n err\u00f3nea en su recuento total.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 3 --><\/p>\n<p>El estudio identific\u00f3 <strong>11 temas de desinformaci\u00f3n<\/strong>, incluidas varias teor\u00edas de conspiraci\u00f3n, como una que surgi\u00f3 en enero que sugiere que la pandemia fue fabricada por los dem\u00f3cratas para coincidir con el juicio pol\u00edtico de Trump, y otra que pretend\u00eda rastrear el brote inicial en Wuhan, China, hasta personas que comieron sopa de murci\u00e9lago.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 4 --><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-asset article-asset-normal article-asset-center\">\n<div class=\"desvio-container\">\n<div class=\"desvio\">\n<div class=\"desvio-figure js-desvio-figure\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/salud\/coronavirus-se-puede-encontrar-semen-nueva-investigacion\" ><br \/>\n     <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"El&#x20;coronavirus&#x20;se&#x20;puede&#x20;encontrar&#x20;en&#x20;el&#x20;semen,&#x20;seg&#x00FA;n&#x20;una&#x20;nueva&#x20;investigaci&#x00F3;n\" src=\"https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/2294ad\/man-4957154_1280\/375_142.jpg\"><br \/>\n    <\/a>\n   <\/div>\n<div class=\"desvio-summary\">\n<div class=\"desvio-taxonomy js-desvio-taxonomy\">\n     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/salud\/coronavirus-se-puede-encontrar-semen-nueva-investigacion\" class=\"desvio-taxonomy-anchor\">In Xataka Science<\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/salud\/coronavirus-se-puede-encontrar-semen-nueva-investigacion\" class=\"desvio-title js-desvio-title\">Coronavirus can be found in semen, according to new research<\/a>\n   <\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Pero, con mucho, el tema m\u00e1s frecuente de desinformaci\u00f3n fueron las &#8216;curas milagrosas&#8217;, incluida la promoci\u00f3n por parte de Trump de medicamentos contra la malaria y desinfectantes como posibles tratamientos para la Covid-19. <strong>Eso represent\u00f3 m\u00e1s informaci\u00f3n err\u00f3nea que los otros 10 temas combinados<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 5 --><\/p>\n<p>Por ejemplo, el 24 de abril, un d\u00eda despu\u00e9s de que Trump planteara la idea de que los desinfectantes y la luz ultravioleta podr\u00edan tratar la Covid-19, hab\u00eda m\u00e1s de 30.000 art\u00edculos en la categor\u00eda de &#8216;curas milagrosas&#8217;, en comparaci\u00f3n con los menos de 10.000 solo d\u00edas antes. Seg\u00fan los investigadores del estudio, <strong>este crecimiento de informaci\u00f3n err\u00f3nea se deb\u00eda a Trump<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 6 --><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-asset article-asset-normal article-asset-center\">\n<div class=\"desvio-container\">\n<div class=\"desvio\">\n<div class=\"desvio-figure js-desvio-figure\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/salud\/teoria-conspiracion-relativa-a-pandemia-ha-matado-a-cientos-personas-estudio\" ><br \/>\n     <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"La&#x20;teor&#x00ED;a&#x20;de&#x20;la&#x20;conspiraci&#x00F3;n&#x20;relativa&#x20;a&#x20;la&#x20;pandemia&#x20;ha&#x20;matado&#x20;a&#x20;cientos&#x20;de&#x20;personas,&#x20;seg&#x00FA;n&#x20;un&#x20;estudio\" src=\"https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/515479\/shopping-4974313_640\/375_142.jpg\"><br \/>\n    <\/a>\n   <\/div>\n<div class=\"desvio-summary\">\n<div class=\"desvio-taxonomy js-desvio-taxonomy\">\n     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/salud\/teoria-conspiracion-relativa-a-pandemia-ha-matado-a-cientos-personas-estudio\" class=\"desvio-taxonomy-anchor\">In Xataka Science<\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/salud\/teoria-conspiracion-relativa-a-pandemia-ha-matado-a-cientos-personas-estudio\" class=\"desvio-title js-desvio-title\">La teor\u00eda de la conspiraci\u00f3n relativa a la pandemia ha matado a cientos de personas, seg\u00fan un estudio<\/a>\n   <\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>La Cornell Alliance for Science, que encabez\u00f3 el estudio, es una organizaci\u00f3n sin fines de lucro dedicada a utilizar la ciencia para mejorar la seguridad alimentaria y la sostenibilidad ambiental. Uno de sus objetivos es promover la toma de decisiones basada en la ciencia. Con Trump, al parecer, van a tener mucho trabajo por delante.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 7 --><\/p>\n<p>El estudio tambi\u00e9n encontr\u00f3 que las teor\u00edas de la conspiraci\u00f3n, cuando se agruparon, <strong>representaron el 46 % de las menciones de informaci\u00f3n err\u00f3nea<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 8 --><script>\n (function() {\n  window._JS_MODULES = window._JS_MODULES || {};\n  var headElement = document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0];\n  if (_JS_MODULES.instagram) {\n   var instagramScript = document.createElement('script');\n   instagramScript.src = 'https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js';\n   instagramScript.async = true;\n   instagramScript.defer = true;\n   headElement.appendChild(instagramScript);\n  }\n })();\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p> &#8211; <br \/> The news<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/salud\/factor-importante-desinformacion-ingles-coronavirus-donald-trump?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=01_Oct_2020\"><br \/>\n       <em> The \u201cmost important factor\u201d of misinformation in English about the coronavirus is Donald Trump <\/em><br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n      was originally published in<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=01_Oct_2020\"><br \/>\n       <strong> Xataka Science <\/strong><br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n            by <a\n       href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/autor\/sergio-parra?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=01_Oct_2020\"><br \/>\n       Sergio Parra<br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n      . <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/xatakaciencia\/~4\/Ypfw5cuecQc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/3ff596\/trump-2546104_1920\/1024_2000.jpg\" alt=\"El \"><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Cornell University <a href=\"https:\/\/int.nyt.com\/data\/documenttools\/evanega-et-al-coronavirus-misinformation-submitted-07-23-20-1\/080839ac0c22bca8\/full.pdf\">They have analyzed 38 million articles<\/a> about the coronavirus pandemic <strong>in English-language media around the world<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 1 --><\/p>\n<p>Mentions to the president <strong>donald trump<\/strong> They accounted for nearly 38% of overall misinformation, making the president the largest driver of pandemic-related falsehoods.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 2 --><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Fake News<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Researchers sought to identify all mentions of misinformation in &#039;mainstream media&#039;<\/strong>. They included fact-checking articles that corrected misinformation in their total count.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 3 --><\/p>\n<p>The study identified <strong>11 topics of misinformation<\/strong>, including several conspiracy theories, such as one that emerged in January suggesting the pandemic was manufactured by Democrats to coincide with Trump&#039;s impeachment, and another that sought to trace the initial outbreak in Wuhan, China, to people who ate soup of bat.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 4 --><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/salud\/coronavirus-se-puede-encontrar-semen-nueva-investigacion\"><br \/>\n     <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"El coronavirus se puede encontrar en el semen, seg&uacute;n una nueva investigaci&oacute;n\" src=\"https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/2294ad\/man-4957154_1280\/375_142.jpg\"><\/a>\n   <\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/salud\/coronavirus-se-puede-encontrar-semen-nueva-investigacion\">In Xataka Science<\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/salud\/coronavirus-se-puede-encontrar-semen-nueva-investigacion\">Coronavirus can be found in semen, according to new research<\/a>\n   <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>But by far the most prevalent topic of misinformation was &#039;miracle cures&#039;, including Trump&#039;s promotion of anti-malaria drugs and disinfectants as potential treatments for Covid-19. <strong>That represented more misinformation than the other 10 topics combined<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 5 --><\/p>\n<p>For example, on April 24, a day after Trump floated the idea that disinfectants and ultraviolet light could treat Covid-19, there were more than 30,000 items in the &#039;miracle cures&#039; category, compared to less than 10,000 just days before. According to the study researchers, <strong>this growth of misinformation was due to Trump<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 6 --><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/salud\/teoria-conspiracion-relativa-a-pandemia-ha-matado-a-cientos-personas-estudio\"><br \/>\n     <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"La teor&iacute;a de la conspiraci&oacute;n relativa a la pandemia ha matado a cientos de personas, seg&uacute;n un estudio\" src=\"https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/515479\/shopping-4974313_640\/375_142.jpg\"><\/a>\n   <\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/salud\/teoria-conspiracion-relativa-a-pandemia-ha-matado-a-cientos-personas-estudio\">In Xataka Science<\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/salud\/teoria-conspiracion-relativa-a-pandemia-ha-matado-a-cientos-personas-estudio\">Pandemic conspiracy theory has killed hundreds of people, study finds<\/a>\n   <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Cornell Alliance for Science, which led the study, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to using science to improve food security and environmental sustainability. One of its goals is to promote science-based decision making. With Trump, it seems, they are going to have a lot of work ahead of them.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 7 --><\/p>\n<p>The study also found that conspiracy theories, when grouped together, <strong>accounted for 46 % of mentions of misinformation<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 8 --><\/p>\n<p> &#8211; <br \/> The news<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/salud\/factor-importante-desinformacion-ingles-coronavirus-donald-trump?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=01_Oct_2020\"><br \/>\n       <em> The \u201cmost important factor\u201d of misinformation in English about the coronavirus is Donald Trump <\/em><br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n      was originally published in<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=01_Oct_2020\"><br \/>\n       <strong> Xataka Science <\/strong><br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n            by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/autor\/sergio-parra?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=01_Oct_2020\"><br \/>\n       Sergio Parra<br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n      . <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/xatakaciencia\/~4\/Ypfw5cuecQc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"><\/p>","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20475","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-portal-3"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20475"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20747,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20475\/revisions\/20747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}