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Misinformation and the Pandemic

By Frederica Freyberg | Here & Now

October 23, 2020

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WisContext's Will Cushman discusses his new reporting on how misinformation became rampant during the COVID-19 pandemic, how it propagates, and the role partisan politics plays in perpetuating it.

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