{"id":5125,"date":"2021-08-22T02:14:54","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T02:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emoryhistorynews.wordpress.com\/?p=5125"},"modified":"2021-08-22T02:14:54","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T02:14:54","slug":"ajc-cites-miller-in-article-on-covid-19-and-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2021\/08\/22\/ajc-cites-miller-in-article-on-covid-19-and-fake-news\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;AJC&#8217; Cites Miller in Article on COVID-19 and Fake News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>T<em>he Atlanta Journal-Constitution <\/em><\/em>recently quoted Dr. <a href=\"http:\/\/history.emory.edu\/home\/people\/faculty\/miller-judith.html\">Judith Miller<\/a>, Associate Professor of history, in an article on misinformation relating to the COVID-19 pandemic. The piece, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/covid-vaccine-efforts-in-immigrant-communities-include-debunking-rumors\/KF4F362UD5G6ZBKP2FXWCUX3IA\/\">COVID vaccine efforts in immigrant communities include debunking rumors<\/a>,&#8221; focuses on the prevalence and consequence of the spread of COVID-related fake news among immigrant communities in Atlanta and beyond. In 2019 Miller taught a first-year seminar on fake news, which was profiled by the Emory News Center in the article, \u201c\u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/news.emory.edu\/stories\/2019\/12\/er_fake_news_class\/campus.html\">Fake News\u2019 class helps students learn to research and identify false information<\/a>.\u201d Read an excerpt of the recent <em>AJC <\/em>piece below along with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/covid-vaccine-efforts-in-immigrant-communities-include-debunking-rumors\/KF4F362UD5G6ZBKP2FXWCUX3IA\/\">full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>&#8220;Judith Miller, a professor of history at Emory University, says getting ahead of the misinformation, or &#8216;pre-bunking&#8217; information, is the key because once lies begin to spread online, it\u2019s often too late to change the minds of those who\u2019ve been convinced. <br><br>&#8220;&#8216;Even if someone is clinging to fake news and has a friend or family member who is trying to persuade them that something they believe is false,&#8217; Miller said, &#8216;often that just makes that boundary harder and the person who lives the fake news retreats even farther.'&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlanta Journal-Constitution recently quoted Dr. Judith Miller, Associate Professor of history, in an article on misinformation relating to the COVID-19 pandemic. The piece, &#8220;COVID vaccine efforts in immigrant communities include debunking rumors,&#8221; focuses on the prevalence and consequence of the spread of COVID-related fake news among immigrant communities in Atlanta and beyond. In 2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid-19","category-faculty","category-public-scholarship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}