Politicization of anti-misinformation efforts blocks evidence-based campaign adoption

Evidence

As soon as the government says something about countering misinformation, people will criticize it and say that the government itself is ‘fake news’. Of course, whilst it’s true that many governments have made big mistakes during the pandemic, the politicization of anti-misinformation efforts wasn’t helping our case and proved to be a major hurdle to implementing our interventions. — Sander van der Linden, Foolproof, 872

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the book-so-far claim that ‘the phrase fake news is ascribed to whichever outlet is politically opposed’. — connects to: Twitter prebunked election fraud myths to all 73 million US users in 2020 — Sander van der Linden, Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects…, 930; Local politics resists misinformation more than national politics does — Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall, The Misinformation Age: How False…, 587; Evidence-based advocacy fails when the political configuration is unready for it — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 9030
• SEED: Angle: how calling an intervention ‘fake news’ silencing functions analogously to vaccine hesitancy — the cure attracts the same reflexive distrust it treats.

Broader Connections

• Evidence-based advocacy fails when the political configuration is unready for it #corroborates (0.82) — , The Rod and the Child, 9030