Talk:COVID-19 misinformation#RFC to fix this once and for all

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| title = On Wikipedia, a fight is raging over coronavirus disinformation

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| date = 9 February 2020

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| title2 = How Wikipedia Prevents the Spread of Coronavirus Misinformation

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| org3 = The Atlantic

| title3 = The CDC Should Be More Like Wikipedia

| url3 = https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/07/cdc-should-be-more-like-wikipedia/619469/

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Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 20 May 2025

The subsection on "Covid-19 denialism" refers to Donald Trump as 'former U.S. President", which is no longer correct. Grecoeditor (talk) 09:23, 20 May 2025 (UTC)

:Fixed. Slatersteven (talk) 09:29, 20 May 2025 (UTC)

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 4 June 2025

Please change the citation under [21] from :

Bursztyn L, Rao A, Roth C, Yanagizawa-Drott D (19 April 2020). "Misinformation During a Pandemic". Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago. Archived from the original on 9 March 2021. Retrieved 21 April 2020

Bursztyn, Leonardo, Aakaash Rao, Christopher Roth, and David Yanagizawa-Drott. "Opinions as facts." The Review of Economic Studies 90, no. 4 (2023): 1832-1864. https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdac065

Explanation: the current citation is an old working paper version of the published article. The authors changed the name of the paper that was eventually published. For source see one of the authors's webpage (where he writes in the notes of the title page that the paper was previously titled "Misinformation During a Pandemic". See also the site of th ejournal where the paper is published:

https://yanagizawadrott.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/OpinionsAsFacts_Revised.pdf Tarquaeron (talk) 08:45, 4 June 2025 (UTC)

:{{done}} Lova Falk (talk) 14:18, 10 June 2025 (UTC)

Fauci Lied

{{archive top|Unactionable WP:PROFRINGERY. Bon courage (talk) 12:31, 10 June 2025 (UTC)}}

An elite unit of scientists working for the Defense Intelligence Agency

concluded three months after the pandemic began that COVID-19 likely was genetically manufactured and escaped a Chinese lab rather than evolving in nature as Dr. Anthony Fauci claimed, a bombshell revelation now at the heart of ongoing investigations into a possible U.S. intelligence cover-up.

“SARS-CoV-2 Spike Appears to be a Chimera,” a slide from the DIA National Center for Medical Intelligence's June 25, 2020 presentation declared, using the scientific terms for the COVID-19 virus and the “chimera’ term for a genetically engineered pathogen that is a combination of pieces from two separate viruses. 129.222.125.135 (talk) 22:38, 9 June 2025 (UTC)

:It is very hard to do something with your comment. If you would like to request an edit, please make a formal edit request, describing which old text you want to replace with which new text, and adding your sources. Friendly, Lova Falk (talk) 12:04, 10 June 2025 (UTC)

::Its also not true, there are naturally occurring chimeric viruses such as BSL-RDHV. Slatersteven (talk) 12:18, 10 June 2025 (UTC)

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 12 June 2025

You are promoting misinformation about misinformation. Tar. Maloney supposed °misinformation was later proved to be accurate. I suspect the editors are liberal democrats or have been paid off by them. 4.15.40.101 (talk) 13:25, 12 June 2025 (UTC)

:{{notdone}}Unactionable silliness. Bon courage (talk) 13:27, 12 June 2025 (UTC)