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Social Networks need a dedicated button to flag up the glow-Corona-Virus-related posts, an advocacy group said.

The centre for the fight against Digital Hate (CCDH), said the apps had "missed a trick" in the fight against The Problem .

The Call coincides with a study shows that 46% of internet-using adults in the UK saw false or misleading lockdown-leading Information about The Virus in The First week of the country.

Ofcom said The Number rose to 58% among 18-to 24-year-olds.

The communications watchdog said that The Most common piece of incorrect advice seen during the week from 23. March is the assertion that drinking more water, flush the infection was.

False claims that Covid-can be alleviated by 19 by gargling salt water, and the avoidance of cold foods and beverages were also widely seen to.

The watchdog wants to pursue the survey of 2000 People each week to the subject.

On Wednesday, the Digital Secretary, Oliver Dowden ,

During the conversation, the company undertakes:

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- Tech companies have stepped up their efforts to combat fake reports in the last few days.

This includes WhatsApp the limitation of The Number of chats, the user popular can send messages at a time-and a ban on YouTube videos, the false claims about 5G is in connection with Covid-19.

But the CCDH says The Public needs an easy way to flag incorrect Information about the disease, as it is today.

The lack of a dedicated button produces a "barrier-to-action", The Group chief executive, Imran Ahmed, told The Bbc , whereby the user of hunting through the options to report offending posts.

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The CCDH's chief is worried that users are encouraged often to block or mute the reported accounts.

This does not mean, "you see, the reality is that you might delete a post, But very rarely accounts delete," He Said .

MP Damian Collins recently testing Infotagion fact-to combat misinformation about the pandemic.

He has demanded that the conscious dissemination of misinformation to be made a criminal offence, and says that Facebook and other social Networks should take action against the administrators of the groups with the posts. to act

"[Tech companies], if it presents imminent physical harm, But if there is other Information - such as conspiracy theories - Then it does not meet your test of whether an Element should be removed," said Mr. Collins said, before YouTube hardened their policy in relation to 5G.

"It's not necessarily a blanket prohibition of false Information about Covid-19. "

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Oxford University's Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism published its own research with the dissemination of online misinformation about coronavirus, earlier in the week.

It analyzes 225 posts, which had been considered as incorrect or misleading Information , by a professional fact-checker in The First three months of the year.

He Said , The Most common type of false claims were about how the authorities were responding to The Crisis .

The second most common type relates to the spread of the disease among the communities, including the contributions of the debt of certain ethnic groups.

The study added that the three major social Networks - Facebook , YouTube, and Twitter had to be removed, labeled, or other actions taken, which will be marked against the majority of the posts to you by independent fact-checkers.

But He Said there were "significant differences" between them in their treatment of the the Links online.

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source: Oxford University

None of The Social Networks , The Bbc revealed plans for the introduction of a specific coronavirus reporting tool.

But they had to have the right to take significant steps to combat The Problem coronavirus contributions taken.

Twitter says that half of The Tweets , the reports against the rules before someone catches you - But the People asked, do so in the future.

TikTok said, it was the focus on the provision of Information from reliable sources, and that the guidelines explicitly prohibited false Information that could cause harm to People .

Facebook said it was the removal of content about The Virus , that had been clearly exposed, from an authoritative source, But the prioritization of the contributions, the could cause was a direct threat to People .

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Source of news: bbc.com