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  1. " #DiedSuddenly Was BS: Why Did We Believe It? "

    Nice exposition of a viral false claim and the psychology behind it.

    medscape.com/viewarticle/dieds

    "...why a campaign like #DiedSuddenly was so effective, the errors in our cognitive processes that cause us to believe these things — or worse, share them online — and how we might avoid those traps in the future."

    #Misinformation #Disinformation #Vaccines #SocialMedia

  2. Wrote about this situation in the book. There was a whole debate about how Twitter should moderate things like #DiedSuddenly at the time, how to add context to claims like McCullough’s. Remember,“labeling is censorship!” had started to get an awful lot of pickup on the right…

  3. McCullough, described in this thread, was one of the amplifiers of #DiedSuddenly; he wrote a letter to the editor in a medical journal claiming 1,598 athletes had suffered cardiac arrest. It was called a study on Tucker Carlson - he had McCullough on to discuss Damar Hamlin.

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:l4guh3r5jejo23ftczxe62i5/post/3lepfeyty722i