US study reveals: Incredible number of "fake news" about coronavirus goes back to Trump

Shortly before the US election, researchers publish a study that shows the great danger Donald Trump poses in the Corona crisis.

The most powerful man in the world opened the door to an immense number of fake news.

• Donald Trump has made numerous strange claims in the corona pandemic that have turned out to be false.

• A US study has now come to the conclusion that the US president is the biggest publisher of “fake news” about the virus.

• One of his pieces of advice was taken up very often - with serious consequences.

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is currently shooting more and more at

.

Understandable, after

all

, the

wants

with all his might to prevent the Democrat

from sweeping him out of the White House

in the

.

The volleys are currently raining down on the highly controversial head of state himself from different directions.

Of course, they come from his challenger and his camp.

But also from one of the most renowned newspapers in the country.

Most recently, the

reported on

minimal

in recent years.

In 2016 and 2017, the successful entrepreneur is said to have paid only

tax

.

Corona crisis: Researchers check millions of articles for misinformation

Now the Big Apple-based newspaper has reported on a

, which puts the US president in a very bad light.

A research team from the nonprofit

,

funded

by

, has been researching English-language articles related to the

for months

to determine how

can be found

in this

.

And the name Trump keeps coming up.

The researchers speak of an “infodemia”, which affects not only the

from the period between January 1st and May 26th.

A staggering

the misinformation exposed would be related to the most powerful man in the world.

So more than one in three

falls

back on Trump.

As a result, he is by far the largest disseminator of false information about the corona pandemic *.

Corona crisis: Trump has long compared the virus to the flu

For a long time, the

refused to take the new virus seriously and consistently compared it with the

.

However, at the beginning of the pandemic, in an interview that was kept under lock and key for a long time, he admitted that he was merely displaying this attitude in order

the

.

In the meantime, a study has shown that the disease

caused by SARS-CoV-2 is

16 times more deadly than influenza in the USA.

Trump also

caused a stir and head shaking among

with the openly expressed recommendations

to inject

against the new coronavirus or to use a highly dangerous drug cocktail.

Experts followed warnings quickly, but there were still

that could well be attributed to the Trump tips.

For a long time, the 74-year-old

dismissed

the virus as an

, who wanted to bow him out of the Oval Office in this way.

Corona crisis: misinformation in every tenth affected article can be traced back to Trump alone

In the study that has now been carried out,

incorrect information about Corona was discovered

in

, which affects almost three percent of the texts and reports examined.

In 115,216 of these “fake news” articles - which corresponds to 10.3 percent -

.

Another frightening figure that once again underlines the

by the US president

.

Almost half of the error-prone publications contain either

- the researchers have divided these into eleven subgroups.

By far, supposed

discussed

most frequently

: in 295,351 articles - which makes up more than a quarter of the publications with misinformation.

Interestingly,

published

alone

- shortly after Trump advised injecting disinfectant.

No other day was even half of this value achieved.

Corona crisis: frequent references to gates or new world order discovered

Further sub-groupings within the misinformation and conspiracies were, for example, the fear of a

and a so-called

- i.e. a state within a state that wanted to put Trump in the cold -

, the virus as a laboratory in Wuhan,

, the fear of a globally distributed

, but also the

or the

as the beginning of all evil.

Many of these points are also due to Trump.

The

amazed at how often it ended up with the US President.

Sarah Evanega, one of the study's authors, told the

, "We were surprised that the biggest driver of misinformation is the President of the United States." She continued, "This is worrying because

it can have

." the researchers probably wanted their results to be published quickly.

The analysis

been

.

A necessary step for the work to be officially recognized.

The authors want to submit their work to a specialist journal first, but then have withdrawn it again because of the

.

Possibly so that US citizens can read in black and white before the election that they are being ruled by a man who, even in life-threatening situations, does not take the truth so seriously if it benefits him.

After the first TV duel, both Trump and Biden had to take a lot of criticism.