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Coronavirus: The people are fighting counterfeiting of their sofas

Aug 17,2023 9:10 pm

Social Media companies are struggling, a wave of coronavirus misinformation. Into The Breach voluntary, The Fight came to stop the rumors, bad advice, and conspiracy theories to go viral.

Rachael Hogg is currently juggling her busy job as a Project Manager and teaching your nine-year-old out of your House in The Market town of Morpeth, 15 miles North of Newcastle.

But that's not enough, each day you delete it also, running as many as 50 misleading posts about coronavirus from The Local Facebook group.

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it has around 22,000 members - much More Than the actual population of the city. The Group , the numbers are swelled by former residents and people from the surrounding villages, the on Facebook for local news.

"The Group was overwhelmed'm with panic, speculation about what is declared in the super markets, conspiracy theories and misleading contributions," Rachael , after a long day, The House education and the work around your kitchen table.

In normal times, you would be out socializing With Friends or conducting official business - She is a councillor. But in The Moment where you have an unhealthy amount of time to spend, what you calls"," online.

Rachael runs Morpeth questions, a local Facebook group

"Someone once said to me, if it's on Morpeth matters, it must be true," She says. "I think that people are more likely To Believe what is posted in The Local Facebook groups, because it seems to come From Within your community. "

Rachael had to reject, wrong posts about tanks on The Streets of Newcastle, a non-trusted Information , how The Virus is spread and a questionable post, attributed to an unnamed "NHS worker". This post contained a mixture of accurate Information and potentially panic-inducing phrases ("don't leave The House for bread or anything!") do not align with the current guidelines.

Rachael says misleading Information online has caused, the people of the city to rush to supermarkets, panic to their neighbors, and to flood The Local schools with phone calls.

Social-media-problems

Volunteer moderators such as Rachael entered as staff on the major Social Media companies have been hit by the coronavirus.

Facebook says it is operating with "reduced, and remote workforce," so it is.

need Also, YouTube and Twitter, are less on the human moderators, and more on automated marking tools, and Artificial Intelligence .

't worry in Walthamstow

Waqas Hussain, born and brought up in Walthamstow in the North-East of London, is an accountant with four children. He is also a moderator, of the More Than 28,000 members.

"Misleading posts will be deleted, and the refutation is booked," he says. "No fake news allows. "

Waqas spends hours each day moderating its local Facebook group in Walthamstow

Waqas says he feels "a sense of duty, to ensure that only factual Information is released", and so he examined contributions in a manner not dissimilar to professional fact-checkers.

"I'm going to find some time to get the facts And Then make a long post about it. There are all kinds of [bad Information ] posts about the severity of the coronavirus, shops, a fine, and links from dubious websites. All these posts are deleted as soon as I see them. "

This includes YouTube videos shared on a Conspiracy Theory that falsely links 5G to coronavirus. Proponents of the theory have been behind a series of attacks on Mobile Phone infrastructure.

between rounds of Board games with his children, Waqas recently examined a photo of a fake Message purporting to be from the government and threatened with fines, if the people of their houses to leave, even for essential goods. It has also been deleted.

During the government of SMS messages, the lower Message , which claims that people are prosecuted and punished to leave for The House - is a fake, scaremongering in Swindon

another Facebook group, has More Than 18,000 members.

It could be a hotbed of disinformation, were it not for its presenters, Debra Collins and Graham Stobbs. You say you sit around 150 misleading posts every single day.

Volunteer presenters, Graham Stobbs and Debra Collins

The 49-year-olds usually run together, music events. Army veteran Graham, who has post-traumatic stress disorder, is particularly eager, since he train with his training time, for a kayaking challenge to raise money for a Mental Health charity.

But in The Moment , Debra and Graham say they are distracted by "Every Day " by The Group . Thousands of members have since the beginning of the pandemic.

"We are working closely with our local authority and local MPs, to ensure the consistent and correct Information is said to be passed on," Debra.

many of the posts, which you reject, are fear-mongering "from non-official sources, which later turned out to fake news," She says.

Beyond the "fake news"

A similar thing happened in a local Facebook group, Stoke-on-Trent.

A medical receptionist, who leads The Group , but not to be called wanted, because Her Job , told Bbc News that they stop misleading medical Information out of the reach of the rest of The Group .

"A contribution encourages everyone to try and keep them from inhalers used to fight the asthma patients, The Virus . This puts terrible pressure on the NHS, as the patients call in to request us inhalers, are not only useless, but you are not allowed to be prescribed. "

A local GP surgery in the area, a statement had to be even, because The Number of people contacting you after listening to the false news on Facebook about fictional coronavirus "rescue packages".

In a crisis like this, Some People try to pitch you in, where - in The Fight against online misinformation.

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