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Complex systems, wicked problems. Society, technology, science and more. @UNC professor. @NYTimes columnist. My newsletter is @insight: http://www.theinsight.org 

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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 14 Jul 2020

      How modern misinformation works. Notice how the abstract is cut off. (I put part back in). The study says for health-care workers, the usual disposable surgical masks were better than cloth masks changed only once a day. Duh. It's not a comparison to *no masks*. But there's more! https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1280966807956992002 …pic.twitter.com/RUf54QhcVO

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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 14 Jul 2020

      But look the misinformation has gone viral! And how many will read the paper to see what the study actually says? Very few. How many people are going to do research and learn that *the lead author* of that very study is loudly on the record recommending cloth masks this pandemic?pic.twitter.com/wOojtvLang

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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 14 Jul 2020

      The misinformer goes on with "cloth masks allow viral particles in." More duh. Masks in community are for *source control* to stop droplets from going *out.* Of course health-care workers need higher levels of protection to stop pathogens from coming *in*.pic.twitter.com/q84EibCJ2k

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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 14 Jul 2020

      People ask how can a cloth mask better stop particles going out but not in? Because cloths masks prevent larger droplets from getting out and evaporating into smaller particles. Imagine stopping gushing water coming out of hose vs inhaling mist around you.https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/04/dont-wear-mask-yourself/610336/ …

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 14 Jul 2020

      See this, too. Physics of masks keeping larger particles from going *out* and what happens when they get out and evaporate and become smaller and thus harder to stop from coming *in* are different. Cloth masks in the community are not same as PPE for HCWs. https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/06/417906/still-confused-about-masks-heres-science-behind-how-face-masks-prevent …pic.twitter.com/ZW7CXbvQwX

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        2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 14 Jul 2020

          Of course. She's been *very loud* the whole time. That' her right there. She's given many interviews, wrote articles. Even explained why her study is not a recommendation against masks for source control, and even ways to make cloth masks safer. https://twitter.com/KoenSwinkels/status/1283058248917155840 …pic.twitter.com/36Q9l0Bc2t

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        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 17 Jul 2020

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          Same study, same misrepresentation: i.e. hope nobody reads it! The study—whose lead author is *on the record right now* recommending universal masks—finds that disposable surgical masks are better for health-care workers than barely-changed cloth masks.🙄 https://twitter.com/JordanSchachtel/status/1283843951137521664 …

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        4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 17 Jul 2020

          Ah, another addition to how platform design contributes. The above tweet, misrepresenting the study, has *just* been deleted but without a correction. It had already gone viral. Who will see my own thread on it? Almost nobody who saw the original, and are now misinformed.pic.twitter.com/B9CvYIYQ0b

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        1. Will Lau‏ @WillWLau 14 Jul 2020
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          And I don't know why people think that even 10% efficiency of mask to filter is worth nothing. 10% could be huge in used with other precautions

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