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Covid-19 misinformation curve shows no signs of flattening

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The covid-19 hashtag on short video platform TikTok has over 17.3 billion video views. While some of these posts are videos about people’s daily routines, lockdowns and working from home, some are spreading misinforming and rumours about the pandemic.

According to fact checkers, despite various efforts by social media companies, their platforms are full of misinforming posts about covid-19.

Such posts can be found on TikTok, Sharechat, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and pretty much any other platform you can think of, said a fact checker.

The kind of posts range from misinformation about cures and remedies, photoshopped versions of screen grabs from television news and even fake documents that look like they're government notifications

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