Analysis of tweets discussing risk of MONKEY POX among children & young people in school (May-Oct 2022): Public health experts on Twitter consistently exaggerated risks & infrequently (eugyppius)

by Paul Alexander

reported truth; Credentialed Twitter users discussing the risk of Mpox to children and young people in schools were 4.6 times more likely to tweet inaccurate than accurate messages. LIARS!

SOURCE:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.11.23289839v1.full.pdf?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

‘Inaccurate and 215/215 (100%) of these exaggerated risks. 47/262 (18%) were accurate. Meaning: Twitter users were more often exposed to inaccurate than accurate information about the risk of Monkey pox to children and young people in school.’