Twitter starts putting fact-checking labels on tweets about 5G and COVID-19

Twitter starts putting fact-checking labels on tweets about 5G and COVID-19

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https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/09/twitter-5g-coronavirus-labels/

Conspiracy theories claiming a connection between 5G technology and the coronavirus have been around since the pandemic’s early days and apparently they’re still going strong.

So strong, in fact, that Twitter began applying a label to some tweets about COVID-19 and 5G, encouraging users to “get the facts” about the virus. As Business Insider reported, clicking through the label leads to a page collecting sources debunking claims with links to pages like the BBC and Snopes. Earlier this year, the conspiracy was linked to a series of arson attacks on 5G towers.

Twitter starts putting fact-checking labels on tweets about 5G and COVID-19

Jun 9, 2020, 10:39pm UTC
https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/09/twitter-5g-coronavirus-labels/ > Conspiracy theories claiming a connection between 5G technology and the coronavirus have been around since the pandemic’s early days and apparently they’re still going strong. > So strong, in fact, that Twitter began applying a label to some tweets about COVID-19 and 5G, encouraging users to “get the facts” about the virus. As Business Insider reported, clicking through the label leads to a page collecting sources debunking claims with links to pages like the BBC and Snopes. Earlier this year, the conspiracy was linked to a series of arson attacks on 5G towers.