Fake news. A phrase with increasing use in the past few years due to the political leader President Trump. But I'm not here to talk about him. I'm here to talk about COVID-19 and how social media isn't really helping with the facts.
Many of you will understand or have heard off the bad press and publicity that political leaders faced with 'fake news' to gain votes, but in this instance were talking about a global health crisis which many would agree with having more importance.
Whether these facts are wrong on purpose with an bad-minded individual sitting behind a screen spreading fake facts and ideologies about numbers of fatalities and causes or it was simply a group of people from across the world being fed the wrong information and through initiative thought to share it leading to a large amount of misinformation being spread.
It is incredibly important to make sure if you are trying to access the latest information, you do so from trusted sources. This probably means many of the mainstream media companies or it may be accounts you follow on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook etc. that you trust for the right information as they have done so in the past.
For the UK, sources may include:
BBC News
Sky News
National Health England
Channel 4 News
Gov.org
For the US, it would be the same sources but the US versions such as CNN and the appropriate government websites for latest symptom information and updates on things such as lock-duration
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