Corona has impacted all areas of life and it seems it will be the death knell for local journalism in a time when we need it most https://t.co/TljwvOxeEC #MPPdigital
Russia and the German Far Right taking advantage of the Corona crisis to spead misinformation. What are there chances?
https://t.co/VIvJM9BNsB #MPPDigital
an update on the how the relationship between partisanship and google search traffic for "hand sanitizer" evolved across US media markets during the past couple of weeks
(and my first foray into using gganimate)
more on data and code here: https://t.co/0a8oGptZw4
Not all rumors are fake news: https://t.co/v8fWhyTcJh
How will society deal with the spread of misinformation in the times of a public health crisis? #MPPdigital
The key is that policymakers need to be flexible and evidence-driven. We'll know a lot more in 3 weeks than we know today, and a lot more in 6 weeks than in 3 weeks.
The better testing/tracking you have, the less social distancing you need to achieve equivalent health outcomes. You can focus social distancing efforts more precisely at people who are sick or at immediate risk of being sick and others can get back to normal life a bit more.
I know people have made this point. But I don't it's totally sunk in how much there's a fairly direct 1:1 trade-off between better testing/tracking on the one hand, and the need for radical, society-wide social distancing (with all its consequences) on the other hand.
Germany's public TV station decides to increase the local and regional content in its news section given the death of local reporting outside of big cities
https://t.co/UGkZ4piDOP
#mppdigital