For years, incentivized influencers have repeatedly undermined and delegitimized authoritative health sources, public health institutions, and health experts. This continual process of seeding doubt and uncertainty in authoritative voices leads to a society that finds it too challenging to identify what’s true or false, loses confidence in the scientific process overall, or becomes more susceptible to harmful misinformation from a source that they like or trust. Sowing distrust in health authorities also provides an opportunity for incentivized influencers to further manipulate communities that might already err on the side of being anti-vaccine, vaccine-skeptical, or vaccine-hesitant. These beliefs and concerns might originate for different reasons or out of different local histories — religious affiliations; frustration with a prohibitively-expensive and opaque medical system; or a weariness of institutions that have historically exploited or mistreated minority communities — and the additional erosion of trust in reputable authorities compounds them.
https://www.viralityproject.org/rapid-response/fauxi-undermining-authoritative-health-sources
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