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COVID-19: Misinformation, Fake News Spreads, Watchdog Tries To Help COVID-19: Misinformation, Fake News Spreads, Watchdog Tries To Help
Covid-19: Misinformation, Fake News Spreads, Watchdog Tries To Help The coronavirus wasn’t developed in a Chinese military lab, and there aren’t any cures that treat or prevent it. Don’t believe it? One site is sorting fact from fakery. At last count, NewsGuard.com found 132 sites publishing false claims about the coronavirus pandemic. Some pose as legitimate news sources with the names of “reporters” but no way to contact them, the online news watchdog found. Many succeed in dumping BS into your newsfeed – often from the other side of the world -- in the tremendously popular Internet version of the telephone game. But here’s the thing: You aren’t getting…

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by Jerry DeMarco