DA's Phumzille van Damme says she will personally counter Covid-19 fake news

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Day12ofLockdown: DA's zilevandamme says she will personally counter Covid-19 fake news

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Cape Town - Phumzile van Damme, a Democratic Alliance MP and the official opposition's spokesperson on communication policy, said on Tuesday she would invite the public to message her personally with any fake news reports on the Covid-19 pandemic so that she could track and counter these.

Van Damme said she was not necessarily calling on the government to invoke a regulation that makes fake news on the novel coronavirus and its response to it punishable with six months in prison, but rather expecting the state to aggressively counter false narratives. The discredited 5G narrative has gained traction around the world, and in Britain led to a warning to broadcasters that they would face sanctions if they gave airtime to false information about the virus.

On Monday, DA MP Siviwe Gwarube laid criminal charges against a man from Parow, Cape Town, after he posted a video on Facebook urging South Africans to resist random testing as the swabs used by health officials were likely to be contaminated with Covid-19. She said it was deeply concerning that there were reported instances of people refusing to be tested because they feared being infected in the process.

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zilevandamme And THAT is fake news...

zilevandamme Please may you Check authenticity of this one making rounds on WhatsApp.

zilevandamme But zilevandamme u were break the rules not so long ago receiving and sending bottles of wine to ur makhi..... Uyawazi umthetho nawe

zilevandamme Usekhona loyo?

zilevandamme Whatever. Personally, I think anyone who falls for fake news should just be ignored.

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