{
  "id": 185830,
  "title": "Distrust of mainstream media may fuel vaccine conspiracy beliefs",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/05/distrust-of-mainstream-media-may-fuel-vaccine-conspiracy-beliefs",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-05T18:00:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-08-distrust-mainstream-media-fuel-vaccine.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A research team led by Professor Hitoshi Yamamoto of Rissho University analyzed five years of longitudinal panel survey data collected between 2020 and 2024 and examined how vaccine-related conspiracy beliefs were associated with media skepticism during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study's results appear in Scientific Reports.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}