SOCIAL MEDIA MENACE!!!!!!
SOCIAL MEDIA MENACE Beware of fake news going viral faster than Covid-19. It will cost lives literally. T he fight against coronavirus stands or falls on whether authentic information about it can be provided to citizens. However social media now threatens to throw a monkey wrench into the works. Since the outbreak of Covid-19, healthcare has replaced politics as the happy hunting ground for purveyors of fake news on social media. The fakery takes avatars like purported health advisories, home remedies to ward off coronavirus, miracle cures by babas, conspiracy theories, to downright peddling of xenophobia. With fake news about coronavirus going viral faster than the disease itself, citizens deriving their information from social media rather than trusted sources such as this newspaper or an official WHO website is a dangerously worrying prospect. Social media can create panic about the disease which is unwarranted. Or, at the other end of the spectrum, it can give r...
