The 5G coronavirus conspiracy theory shows how easily misinformation spreads — and how dangerous it is

“A lot of times, these are recycled from earlier conspiracy theories,” he added. “Some of them are very predictable. If there’s a mass shooting, you know there are going to be conspiracy theories that it was a false flag done by a government, because there always are. In a pandemic, there’s immediately going to be conspiracy theories that the virus is either harmless, a bioweapon that’s going to kill everybody or an excuse for the government to give a vaccine that is going to kill everybody.”

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