社交媒体作为新冠肺炎疫情主要信息来源的人更容易相信阴谋论

People 1. ________rely on social media for information about the coronavirus are more likely 2. ___________(believe)  conspiracy theories and go outside with3. ____________( symptom) or breach lockdown rules, a new study revealed. 

Research4. __________(publish) by the Psychological Medicine journal found that 60% of people who believe that COVID-19 was directly linked to the world's growing 5G network used YouTube as their primary source of news. 

And among those who 5. __________(prefer) Facebook to get their information 54% believed the 5G conspiracy theory compared to 20% who did not and 26% who were not sure. The 5G link to coronavirus has been 6. ________(wide) denied by governments and tech experts. 

Yet people have been damaging masts or even setting fire 7. _____ them while phone and broadband engineers have been harassed and threatened leading to public information campaigns in some countries. "This is not 8. ____________(surprise) , given that so much of the information on social media is misleading or downright wrong," Daniel Allington, senior lecturer in social and cultural artificial intelligence at King's College London, said.

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reveal n. 揭露；暴露；门侧，窗侧 vt. 显示；透露；揭露；泄露

journal n. 日报，杂志；日记；分类账

be linked to与…连接；与…有关联，与…有联系

primary /ˈpraɪmeri/ n. 原色；最主要者 adj. 主要的；初级的；基本的

source /sɔːrs/ n. 来源；水源；原始资料

theory  /ˈθiːəri,ˈθɪri/ n. 理论；原理；学说；推测

deny /dɪˈnaɪ/ vi. 否认；拒绝 vt. 否定，否认；拒绝给予；拒绝…的要求

expert n. 专家；行家；能手 v. 当专家

mast n. 桅杆；柱；橡树果实 vt. 在…上装桅杆

harass美 /həˈræs,ˈhærəs/ v. 骚扰，（使）困扰（或烦恼）；反复袭击

threaten vt. 威胁；恐吓；预示 vi. 威胁；可能来临

campaign v. 领导或参加运动；参加竞选 n. 运动；活动；战役，军事行动；竞选

misleading v. 使产生错误想法（或印象）；欺骗；给……带错路；把……引入歧途（mislead 的现在分词） adj. 误导的；引入歧途的；让人产生错误观念的

downright adj. （坏事或令人不快之事）彻头彻尾的；（人的举止或行为）直率的；径直前进的 adv. 向下；完全地，彻底地；径直向前地；立即

artificial intelligence人工智能

1. who 2. symptoms 3. to believe4. published 5. preferred 6. widely 7. to 8. surprising

一项最新研究显示，把社交媒体作为新冠肺炎疫情主要信息来源的人更容易相信阴谋论、在已出现感染症状的情况下外出，或违反封锁规定。

研究发现，认为新冠肺炎与全球不断增加的5G网络直接相关的人中，有60%将YouTube作为主要新闻来源。该研究报告发表在《心理医学》杂志上。

而喜欢在脸书上获取信息的人中，54%的人相信5G阴谋论，20%的人不相信，26%的人不确定。多国政府和技术专家都反驳了5G与新冠病毒有关这一谣言。

然而，在一些国家，人们一直在破坏甚至纵火焚烧5G基站，电话和宽带工程师受到骚扰和威胁也导致了公共信息宣传活动的举行。伦敦国王学院社会与文化人工智能高级讲师丹尼尔·阿林顿博士说："这并不奇怪，因为社交媒体上的很多信息都是误导性的，或者是完全错误的。"

社交媒体作为新冠肺炎疫情主要信息来源的人更容易相信阴谋论