Study: Fox viewers more likely to believe COVID falsehoods [barf alert]

Fox 44 News ^ | 11/9/2021 | David Bauder

[markomalley]

People who trust Fox News Channel and other media outlets that appeal to conservatives are more likely to believe falsehoods about COVID-19 and vaccines than those who primarily go elsewhere for news, a study has found.

While the Kaiser Family Foundation study released this week found the clear ties between news outlets that people trusted and the amount of misinformation they believe, it took no stand on whether those attitudes specifically came from what they saw there.

“It may be because the people who are self-selecting these organizations believe (the misinformation) going in,” said Liz Hamel, vice president and director of public opinion and survey research at Kaiser.

Kaiser polled people on whether or not they believed seven widely-circulated untruths about the virus, among them that the government is exaggerating the number of deaths attributable to the coronavirus, hiding reports of deaths caused by vaccines or that the vaccines can cause infertility, contain a microchip or can change DNA.

[markomalley]

I think a more accurate interpretation is that people who look at conservative media outlets actually think for themselves, rather than the interpretation published...but, hey, I just think for myself, so what do I know.

Here are the toplines for the study:

And the net answers that are discussed in the hit piece.

[cranked]

Much like polling, a study is a dime a dozen these days, most not being worth the paper they printed on.

[mass55th]

I haven’t watched Fox News since Obama was elected. God gave me a brain, and I can make my own decisions.

[WMarshal]

Ditto. Done with Fox ews

[irishjuggler]

“among them that the government is exaggerating the number of deaths attributable to the coronavirus”
>Not a falsehood.

“hiding reports of deaths caused by vaccines”
>Not a falsehood.

“or that the vaccines can cause infertility”
>Not a falsehood. Jury is still out on this.

“contain a microchip”
>Okay, this one is probably a falsehood.

” or can change DNA.”
>Not a falsehood. Jury is still out on this.

[Political Junkie Too]

In other words, of all the people who watch cable news, the majority of viewers aren't buying what the others are selling.

-PJ

[kiryandil]

among them that the government is exaggerating the number of deaths attributable to the coronavirus

This is most certainly true.

I'm sorry that Liz Hamel's brain damage prevents her from understanding this.

[DoughtyOne]

Honest information will do that to ya...

[Texas Fossil]

This work was supported in part by grants from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative DAF (an advised fund of Silicon Valley Community Foundation), the Ford Foundation, and the Molina Family Foundation. We value our funders. KFF maintains full editorial control over all of its policy analysis, polling, and journalism activities.

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Well! That says it all!

Lies, Big Lies and Great Big Paid Lies!

And Propaganda.

[Ancesthntr]

Really? So Fox viewers believe everything spouted by Fauci?

[chopperk]

Bauder is smoking that stuff again

[Ancesthntr]

“ ...the government is exaggerating the number of deaths attributable to the coronavirus.”
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The Italian government recently reduced the number of their deaths from Covid by 97%, citing the huge percentage who had serious co-morbidities. Anyone who thinks that our number is accurate is a certified low-grade moron.

[MagnoliaB]

Dumped satellite completely because of Fox’s lies over 2020 election. Not going to pay people that lie to me.

[MDLION]

Ever notice all the issues those who decide what the truth is have been wrong about recently?

They said for years Trump was colluding with Russia. He wasn’t.
They said the virus probably came out of a wet market and that the idea it came out of a lab was a conspiracy theory. It probably came out of a lab.
They say the information on Hunter’s laptop was Russian misinformation. The laptop is real.

[ReaganGeneration2]

Goebbels would be proud of this article

[Boomer]

Who decides what is true or not? Definitely not big pharma or their shills in the CDC, NIH, HHS, or any US government agency for that matter.

[piusv]

Yep. That’s the issue here. Most believe everything reported in the MSM about the COVID and the Jab is the Truth and anyone who reports or posts anything that doesn’t agree with the “Truth” is obviously reporting faux news ...and should be censored ....because it’s.....DANGEROUS!

It’s amazing to me that it doesn’t even dawn on these people that the very same thing could happen to them one day when they are on the opposite side for something.

[Bookshelf]

As for the Kaiser Family Foundation:

Contributions by Party of Recipient

Cycle TotalDemocrats % to Dems Republicans %to
2020 $11,025 $10,120 97.03% $310 2.97%
2018 $5,322 $4,972 100.00% $0 0.00%
2016 $8,877 $8,877 100.00% $0 0.00%
2014 $2,000 $250 100.00% $0 0.00%
2012 $10,800 $8,925 100.00% $0 0.00%

[mewzilla]

Meanwhile...

US Surgeon General Warns Against ‘Misleading Memes’ – Says Not to Share Covid Vax Information Online Until Checking with Overlords at CDC

[ex91B10]

I find it amusing that this was reported by a FOX news station.