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  • 2020-08-10 (xsd:date)
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  • Did CNN Publish Contradictory Articles on Hydroxychloroquine? (en)
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  • One of the many political controversies surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 was U.S. President Donald Trump's repeated touting of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine for treatment of the coronavirus disease, despite a lack of scientific studies and evidence demonstrating its effectiveness for that purpose. One item that circulated on social media played on that controversy by purporting to show two seemingly contradictory CNN articles about hydroxychloroquine, published three months apart and co-authored by the same person. One criticized Trump for being wrong about hydroxychloroquine, and the other acknowledged that a study had found hydroxychloroquine helpful in treating coronavirus patients: However, these articles were not contradictory in content, and they were presented in a misleading manner in the above example to make them seem so. The first article, published on April 11, 2020, and written by Elizabeth Cohen and Dr. Minali Nigam, was headlined President Trump is wrong in so many ways about hydroxychloroquine studies. Here are the facts. This article did not assert that hydroxychloroquine had no value whatsoever as a treatment for the coronavirus disease. Rather, it pointed out four specific ways in which Trump had made claims about hydroxychloroquine studies that were contrary to what doctors were expressing about the subject at the time: The second article, published on July 3 2020, and written by Maggie Fox, Andrea Kane, and Elizabeth Cohen, had its headline deceptively truncated in the above example to remove the skepticism it expressed about a recent hydroxychloroquine study. The full headline read Study finds hydroxychloroquine may have boosted survival, but other researchers have doubts, and the text of the article detailed the dispute over the study's findings: Other analyst likewise found the hydroxychloroquine study referenced by CNN to be dubious, for similar reasons: In short, information about hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for the COVID-19 coronavirus disease, published by CNN in two articles in April and July of 2020, was neither contradictory nor inaccurate — despite deceptive attempts to make it look that way. (en)
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