The level of false information around COVID-19 is stunning. But since the disease teaches us that the unthinkable is possible, could it also ultimately work against authoritarian leaders, and those who trade in disinformation? Deluding citizens about who controls the world’s wealth is harder than deceiving them about whether their neighbors are dying. Based on daily experience, people are ultimately likely to make evidence-based judgments about how to protect themselves, and how their rulers responded to the pandemic.
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Thomas Kent: Suppose disinformation doesn’t win?
A girl wearing a face mask, amid concerns over the spread of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, speaks on the phone in Kyiv, on April 9, 2020.
