COVID-19: How fake news could help spread the coronavirus

, scientists investigated how the spread of fake news could spread infectious disease, with influenza, monkeypox and the norovirus used as case studies. However, they say the same information could be applied to the COVID-19 coronavirus.

In the second, by reducing bad advice to 30 percent of the total amount of information circulated—or making 30 percent of people immune to its influence—they were able to counteract the negative effect of fake news related to the norovirus. And yet, even if 90 percent of news circulating was good , the misinformation that was present was pernicious enough to still have an effect on disease spread, they found.

"If you think COVID-19 is related to unhygienic eating practices, then maybe you don't want to be associated with those 'dirty' people who get sick from COVID-19," she said. While it is likely we have always had these affinities, the growth of social media has amplified our ability to share and spread fake news, as well as created a new way to monetize the process on a large scale.

It also suggests that there are effective ways to tackle the problem—provide better, more persuasive and, most importantly, correct counter-information; impose taxes on profits of products sold using misinformation; improve regulation of fake news; drown out the bad with good advice; and improve education to"immunize" the public against fake news.

We are not able to measure “fake news” but it is the same term that trump uses to evade accountability for his compulsive lying and fraud. It doesn’t help when social media spreads panic, but falsehood began with China’s govt to suppress news of this viral outbreak.

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