More than four months into the pandemic, Americans are swimming — and sometimes drowning — in an ocean of information that, paradoxically, is also a desert of clarity and consensus. She used to rely on Fox News, “but they’ve gotten more liberal,” she said, “so I also watch One America News, and I Google, but you don’t know what’s right on Google. She follows infectious-disease specialists and local health officials on Twitter, but she sees friends and relatives relying on less-qualified sources. “With this abject lack of national leadership, people don’t know who to trust,” he said. “I’ve been saying the taboo things.”Over time, good information rises and bad information collapses as reality proves it wrong, McKinney said.

Source: Washington Post July 20, 2020 18:41 UTC