"The original falsehood is always going to reach more people than the correction."

[IcyPeas]

short interview with Graham Brookie.

Here to explain how these falsehoods spread and how to counteract them is Graham Brookie. He's director of the Digital Forensic Research Lab at The Atlantic Council.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-misinformation-is-used-to-amplify-and-solidify-ideology

Amna Nawaz:

Specific to FOX News, though, just to bring it back to that red meat story we talked about earlier, they did come out and then say: We're walking this back. Our script implied something that was not, in fact, true.

What's the impact of something like that, once the information is out there, once the misinformation is out there, coming back to correct it later.

Graham Brookie:

Right.

Well, the myth is always going to be — reach more people. The original falsehood is always going to reach more people than the correction. And that's the ball game here. Whenever you have a false narrative that gains a certain amount of traction, it will reach more people than all of the work that it takes to correct that falsehood or reach all of the people that the falsehood had originally reached.

And that continues to be a major vulnerability during our public health response to the ongoing pandemic.

[MyOwnPeace]

1. And THAT.....

is the TRUMP "modus operandi" - and it has become SO successful that it is now the entire RepubliQan platform.

[Binkie The Clown]

2. The original falsehood is on the front page in bold red type, the correction in small print on pp 8

[11 Bravo]

3. You just described the FoxNews business model.