The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is taking aim at a new health hazard: online misinformation
The array of challenges before the FDA raises questions about the new focus on misinformation. And Califf acknowledges the limits of what his agency can accomplish.
series of factchecking videos, which feature FDA's vaccine chief Dr. Peter Marks succinctly addressing a single COVID-19 myth or topic.“FDA’s YouTube videos have a minuscule audience,” said Brandon Nyhan, who studies medical misinformation at Dartmouth College. The people watching FDA videos ”are not the people we typically think about when we think about misinformation.”
“Because the FDA puts that information on its website, it will actually crowd out the misinformation from the top 10 or 20 Google results,” said David Lazer, a political and computer scientist at Northeastern University. The FDA then largely relies on news media to translate those debates and its final decisions, which are often laden with scientific jargon.
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