misreporting

Manipulation of information in times of crisis: evidence from Covid excess mortality Karlinsky, Ariel; Shayo, Moses Abstract Governmental information manipulation has been hard to measure and study systematically. This paper provides comparable country-level estimates of the extent of...

Two papers published today on the same subject, first: COMPare: a prospective cohort study correcting and monitoring 58 misreported trials in real time Background Discrepancies between pre-specified and reported outcomes are an important source of bias in trials. Despite legislation...

There's a neat summary of some of the issues, I haven't read the paper properly yet, but noticed this comment in particular, (emphasis added). http://www.pnas.org/content/115/11/2613