When the first Corona cases occurred on the 25th of February 2020, alarm bells rang in the republic of Austria – and the government quickly contacted the Austrian Red Cross for help and support in managing the crisis. Austrian Red Cross is a big, nationwide...
Information seeking patterns may help to explain higher death tolls in COVID-19 in immigration dense areas in Sweden. Information gaps widens with language problems and weak identification with the majority society. During the first months of COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, news media around the world focused...
Pandemics are nothing new, as Viktoria Adler and Diotima Bertel reminded us in this article. False and misleading information didn’t wait for the 21st century either. Long before we started talking about “fake news”, Daniel Defoe noted in his 1722 Journal of the Plague Year,...
