- A crisis like the COVID-19 coronavirus provides a fertile breeding ground for fake cures and misleading preventative measures to spread quickly.
- Some people are claiming the coronavirus was engineered in a lab even though reputable scientists have already proven this to be false.
- Make sure to do a quick Google search before buying into and spreading disinformation that could actually put people at greater risk of catching the virus.
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A few days ago, I hopped onto Twitter and saw a disturbing tweet putting forth the idea that the coronavirus could very well be a manmade bioweapon that was created to bring the United States to its knees. And lest you think that outlandish ideas like this only come from unemployed 40-year-old crackpots who still live at home, the tweet in question came from a well-respected and highly-educated doctor.
Unfortunately, a crisis like the novel coronavirus tends to be a fertile breeding ground for conspiracy theorists who are all too eager to come up with a seemingly endless number of hot takes, each one more outlandish than the one that came before it.
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Some of these coronavirus conspiracy theories and fake remedies are insane originally appeared on BGR.com on Sat, 21 Mar 2020 at 09:01:44 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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