Fake news about Covid-19 can be as dangerous as the virus | John Naughton

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Fake news about Covid-19 can be as dangerous as the virus | John Naughton
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We’re fighting an ‘infodemic’ as well as a pandemic. A bit of online self-discipline is urgently required

On 15 February the director-general of the World Health Organisation , Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, addressed the Munich Security conference. At that moment, there were 66,000 cases of Covid-19 in China, and only 505 in the rest of the world. So most of us were probably still assuming that this was predominately a Chinese problem. This view was not shared by the WHO director-general.

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