No, drinking bleach WILL NOT help beat the coronavirus 🤦♂️
Facebook has announced a ban onand will now work to ‘limit the spread of misinformation and harmful content about the virus’.
The World Health Organisation has now declared the coronavirus public health emergency of international concern and‘As the global public health community works to keep people safe, Facebook is supporting their work in several ways, most especially by working to limit the spread of misinformation and harmful content about the virus and connecting people to helpful information.
‘We are doing this as an extension of our existing policies to remove content that could cause physical harm. We’re focusing on claims that are designed to discourage treatment or taking appropriate precautions.’ But in the absence of proper explanations, conspiracy theorists have stepped in to offer their own bizarre false claims about the coronavirus.
It’s often claimed that rich, powerful people want to depopulate Earth by killing billions of people.
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