Jack Goodman

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the BBC team are fact-checking, and review some of The Most popular fake and misleading coronavirus stories on Social Media . Jack Goodman brings together what unmasked This Week by the BBC Monitoring, Trend and Reality Check .

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you might remember that Bill Gates actually write. Here's another fake quote attributed to billionaire. This Time a statement, Jeff Bezos , not Bill Gates .

Amazon confirmed the quote is a fake.

claimed to be Identical to contributions erroneously, that the Amazon founder Mr. Bezos had sent a strong message to the Africans about Covid-19, and that Bill Gates was on the search for the destabilization of Africa. The Africans had to avoid wearing certain face masks because they contain toxic substances.

The same wrong post in French is copied and pasted by hundreds of accounts. The original seems to be from an account in the DR Congo, which was in January, and released More Than 30,000 times.

False 5G contributions that have not been called to go away

scientists, the rumors that There is a connection between 5G-technology-and coronavirus, and a biological impossibility.

However, There are still false claims circulating on Facebook, Instagram, and Tik Tok.

A post shared thousands of times on the left of a new technology, various outbreaks of diseases - call for 1G at the time of the flu outbreak in 1979, 2G with an outbreak of cholera, and on the left of 5G to Covid-19. This is wrong - There is no evidence that these events are related.

photos, to claim posters to lampposts, it was never a Covid-19 and the 5G is the "true cause" of the dead. Again, this claim is false.

Claims that it is in the UK contract with the Chinese internet company Huawei pulled out of a 5G-after the Test kits were contaminated with coronavirus shared thousands of times on Facebook and Twitter in English, Arabic, Portuguese, and French. However, the UK's deal with Huawei is still available. And There is no evidence, Test kits were contaminated with coronavirus.

Then There is the Conspiracy Theory link between coronavirus and 5G technology, the new £20 Note .

Numerous Social Media posts to show what a representation of The Virus , about what you say, seems to be a 5G telecoms tower on the back of The Note .

However, as The Bank of England pointed out, when the design was unveiled, the "Corona Virus" is actually The Rotunda of the Tate Britain Art Gallery , during the "cell phone tower" is Margate lighthouse.

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a voice, A Voice Note : you may have heard of A Woman who claims she works for "Seca" - The South East Coast Ambulance Service and the sharing of Insider information that "comes from Public Health England" is not correct.

"This is fake news, and we ask you to ignore The People The Message and not continue," says Viv Bennett, chief nurse in the Public Health England (PHE).

In The Note : The Woman proposes further restrictions on the movement before, and that a large part of The People dies of coronavirus healthy and young.

Seca, said that "the alarming information that is shared is in The Message correctly".

dozens of people sent The Note to BBC reporters, and Secas, and PHE responded to requests, indicating that The Message went viral access to WhatsApp.

Has smack the Nasa listen to India?

A popular WhatsApp message claims that, in celebrating The Nation 's emergency services in March, it caused such a racket that the Nasa-discovered satellites "cosmic-level sound waves", the coronavirus "retreat".

that Sounds far-fetched? Well, Yes.

The Message appeared Two Weeks ago, but we do know that people still share it, in spite of Official Denial on the part of The Indian government.

posts about an American scientist who fact-checked

Inaccurate allegations that a Harvard professor has just been arrested, for the creation of the coronavirus surfaced This Week and went viral after reports in several languages and hundreds of thousands of times.

The contributions to say that Charles has Rather just been arrested, in the United States and that he made coronavirus and sold it to China .

Dear Lord, was charged in January of this year for lying.

the fees, However, are not for the manufacture or sale of the new coronavirus to China - None of them, in connection with Covid-19.

Many of the posts contain the same local news clip from the January.

It was written on a Spanish Facebook page for "natural recipes" and shared More Than 250,000 times.

the genome sequencing of this Corona Virus, he hits jumped from animals to humans, and was not man-made.

't gargle to prevent salt water that infections

A video in Spanish, the More Than seven million views gargling salt water is recommended to prevent Covid-19 infection.

The presenter says that salt water is The Best ingredient for protection against coronavirus.

Some People throat gargle with salt relieves the symptoms of a dry wound, says The Who , but There is no evidence, it has no impact on Covid-19.

Additional reporting by Marianna spring, Olga Robinson, Shruti Menon, Peter Mwai, and Alistair Coleman .

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Source of news: bbc.com