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In India, fake news circulated that the World Health Organization warned against eating cabbage to prevent COVID-19 infection. [388] Claims that the poisonous fruit of the Datura plant is a preventive measure for COVID-19 resulted in eleven people being hospitalized in India.
A 2020 study by researchers from Northeastern, Harvard, Northwestern and Rutgers universities found that older registered voters of all political orientations shared more COVID-19 stories from fake news websites on Twitter, with Republicans over the age of 65 being the most likely to share COVID-19 stories from fake news websites. [104]
[77] [78] [79] The declared goal of the decree was to limit the spread of fake news about SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 in Serbia. On 21 April 2020, Dr. Predrag Kon, a guest on the Ćirilica TV show on Happy TV, confirmed the lack of medical supplies.
Fraudsters used the faces of dolls and mannequins to create fake IDs to scam the government’s largest Covid-19 relief programme.. The scam using doll faces to create false IDs made up a small ...
Anxiety about COVID-19 makes people more willing to "try anything" that might give them a sense of control of the situation, making them easy targets for scams. [5] Many false claims about measures against COVID-19 have circulated widely on social media, but some have been circulated by text, on YouTube, and even in some mainstream media ...
An example of fake news related to the COVID-19 pandemic was that the virus could be spread via 5G. [23] Another, that the virus was manually created in a lab by government leaders [24] [25] or that consuming chlorine dioxide would treat or prevent the virus. [26]
Fake news websites like to republish old stories to try to trick you into taking interest over and over again, according to USA Today. 5. If the headline is outrageous, take time to read the article.
In March 2020, Taiwan's Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau warned that China was trying to undermine trust in factual news by portraying the Taiwanese government reports as fake news. Taiwanese authorities have been ordered to use all possible means to track whether the messages were linked to instructions given by the Chinese Communist ...