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By Reuters Staff 6 Min Read An image shared on social media outlines a three-phase conspiracy theory linked to the COVID-19 pandemic. The text in the image contains several false claims. Reuters Fact Check. REUTERS/Axel Schmidt The image was shared on social media (examples here, here and here) and …
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By Reuters Staff 4 Min Read Reuters Fact Check. REUTERS/Axel Schmidt Update May 21, 2020: This article has been updated to reflect that disclose.tv has since added information from this check to the discussion thread. Posts shared widely on Facebook claim that President John F. Kennedy said, …
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By Reuters Staff 3 Min Read A video being shared widely on social media shows a man who presents himself as a telecoms engineer allegedly revealing equipment labelled COV-19 that is due to be installed into a 5G tower. This video contains false information. Reuters Fact Check. REUTERS/Axel Schmidt …
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By Reuters Staff 5 Min Read Facebook posts carrying a message that COVID-19 is fake and that the pandemic is part of a wider conspiracy to deploy 5G network towers and microchip people have been shared thousands of times as of May 13, 2020. The information in these posts is false. Reuters Fact …
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By Reuters Staff 2 Min Read LONDON, May 6 (Reuters) – Twitter said on Wednesday it would tackle the spread of damaging conspiracy theories linking mobile phone technology with the coronavirus with a prompt to direct people searching for 5G to British government-verified information. The theory, …
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By Alistair Smout, Paul Sandle 3 Min Read LONDON (Reuters) – Internet and media companies should do more to tackle the spread of misinformation in Britain as falsehoods abound during the coronavirus pandemic, fact-checking organisation Full Fact said in a report on Thursday. FILE PHOTO: A person …
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By Reuters Staff 4 Min Read A post shared on social media falsely links the deaths of hundreds of birds to the testing of 5G masts in the Netherlands (here). This claim, posted on April 22 alongside two photographs of dead starlings, alleges that all of the birds in a park in a “west coast city” of …
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By Reuters Staff 3 Min Read LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s biggest free-to-air broadcaster ITV came under fire on Tuesday after one of its leading presenters said no one knew whether a conspiracy theory that 5G masts help spread the novel coronavirus was true or not. FILE PHOTO: A company sign is …
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By Victoria Waldersee 6 Min Read (Repeats story without changes) * Some opponents vow to resist any potential vaccine * But scale of crisis erodes resistance of others * Amid online debate, experts expect weakening of movement * Committed opponents see no big change in views on vaccines LISBON, …
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By Victoria Waldersee 6 Min Read LISBON (Reuters) – An American mother-of-three is a long-time member of “anti-vaxxer” groups online: a small but vocal global community that believes vaccines are a dangerous con and refuse to immunize themselves or their children. FILE PHOTO: Demonstrators, …
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