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Bots are waging a coronavirus disinformation campaign on social media
Submitted by Hardscrabble Farmer
The latest figures show there are now 60 confirmed cases of COVID-19, also known as the coronavirus, in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has warned that the virus is likely to spread and suggests Americans prepare for that scenario. This has a lot of Americans worried that they might get infected, and this concern has been compounded by the fact there hasn’t been a lot of information released regarding how lethal the virus is, how easily it infects people and more.
Health experts have warned that misinformation about the coronavirus has been spreading and that this misinformation presents a very real danger. Based on a social media analysis, Inverse has discovered that a lot of the misinformation that’s being spread online is coming from bots.
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