Newsy Poll: 7 In 10 Say Keeping Up With COVID News Is Overwhelming

The video discusses the overwhelming nature of COVID-19 news and how it leads people to focus on negative outcomes, potentially causing them to seek misinformation. Experts highlight the simplicity of misinformation compared to complex scientific facts, making it spread easily. Fact checkers face challenges in combating misinformation. To alleviate this, experts suggest changing information sources from social media to more authoritative ones, as platforms are working to address the crisis but can't cover everything.

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