Conditional transparency: Differentiated news framings of COVID-19 severity in the pre-crisis stage in China

• Yipeng Xi,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Communications and New Media, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5060-4078

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• Anfan Chen,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Humanity and Social Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Anhui Province, China

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• Aaron Ng

  Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: e0145895@u.nus.edu

  Affiliation Department of Communications and New Media, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8349-5816

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