Are you stocking up on hand soap or garlic?
Both have been named on the internet as potential guards against the outbreak of Coronavirus, or COVID-19, but only one is effective. And it’s this rapid spread of misinformation that’s front of mind for the head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
“We’re not just fighting an epidemic; we’re fighting an infodemic,” he says....
With fake news and the spread of misinformation one of the defining issues of our time, incorrect, misleading or false medical advice can travel around the world before anyone has a chance to correct it. So how big is the problem? And what can be done other than monitoring social media? Read More
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