It's a good paper; they took pains to control for many alternative explanations and this really looks like a causal effect of misinformation to deaths. (Stuff your correlation isn't causation one-liners: it's a stupid line and researchers aren't idiots and have taken stats 101).
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Also, please note: information and misinformation changes behavior. Varying degrees but it does. Misinformation on Facebook changes behavior just like misinformation on TV. Too often people deny this because they can hide behind lack of good ways to measure it. Here, we have one.
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Folks, if you want to share this study with people named in this study, do it from your own account. It's not like I don't know how to type @ myself. I immediately block all snitch-tagging, positive or negative. (I act preemptively to make my life on this platform manageable.)
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We'll have to print the Darwin awards en masse for the Hannity fans
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Just give out stickers at their "protests", similar to those "I donated blood" stickers.
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Paper: watching Fox News leads to more people dying.
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Specifically, it shows that watching one show on Fox does, when compared to watching another show on Fox. Which, I hate Fox also, but the data shows what it shows.
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Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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But how many of the increased deaths are Hannity viewers?
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They are literally killing their own base.
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it’s killing a lot of unwitting essential workers too
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