> People seem to have chosen bad faith attack media and elected bad faith leaders. That's why the US, UK, and Brazil are doing particularly badly.
This is something we tend to assume somewhat intuitively, but I'd love to see some actual research on it.
The relationship between weakened trust in media and a societies pandemic response performance is not a trivial research question.
I wouldn't even necessarily trust the premise that overall trust declined. Could as well be perception or based on publisher selection.
... and that didn't jet include seriously operationalizing or discussing the nebulous "bad faith leaders" term or their relationship to pandemic response performance.
This is something we tend to assume somewhat intuitively, but I'd love to see some actual research on it.
The relationship between weakened trust in media and a societies pandemic response performance is not a trivial research question.
I wouldn't even necessarily trust the premise that overall trust declined. Could as well be perception or based on publisher selection.
... and that didn't jet include seriously operationalizing or discussing the nebulous "bad faith leaders" term or their relationship to pandemic response performance.