Sinclair Broadcast Group recently published an online interview with a conspiracy theorist who claimed that Dr. Anthony Fauci created the coronavirus using monkey cells. Sinclair — which operates almost 200 television stations — has also run segments downplaying the severity of the virus. Fox News has repeatedly run segments promoting ideas that scientists consider false or that question the seriousness of the virus. Breitbart published a video this week in which a group of doctors claimed that masks were unnecessary and that the drug hydroxychloroquine cured the virus. The result is confusion among many Americans about scientific facts that are widely accepted, across the political spectrum, in other countries.

Source: New York Times July 29, 2020 10:41 UTC