A Framework for the Study of Misinformation and Health.

Why this matters here

Druckman and colleagues analyze how shared events during the COVID-19 pandemic produced divergent interpretations—different signals, experts, and risks—long before participants reached stable conclusions. When Trust Stops Tracking Reality uses that finding to show disagreement beginning at the level of attention, not only at the level of final belief. The book’s extension is that trust helps determine which story feels most available while evidence remains incomplete.