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Study examines how Chinese state media shaped COVID-19 online discussion

Original: Agenda-setting relations between Chinese state media reports and public social media posts: focusing on COVID-19

A study published in Nature analyses the agenda-setting relationship between Chinese state media reports and public posts on social media during the COVID-19 pandemic. The research looks at whether official reporting influenced what the public discussed online, or whether public attention drove media coverage, offering evidence on state communication and opinion formation in China during the health crisis.

Why now: Fresh academic findings on how state media shaped public discourse during COVID-19 draw attention amid ongoing debate over pandemic information flows.

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• Agenda-setting relations between Chinese state media reports and public social media posts: focusing on COVID-19 · Nature

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