Content tagged "misinformation"

Posted by Giorgia Guglielmi S.M., Science Writing, 2017
Topics: disease, fake news, Italy, misinformation, news, olives, Salento, Xylellafastidiosa

Media of Mass Destruction: How Fake News Is Killing Italy’s Olive Trees

Criminal charges against scientists and public resistance due to inaccurate information may fuel the spread of an olive plant disease to the rest of Italy and eventually to the entire Mediterranean basin, with catastrophic economic consequences.