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5 Things That Happened This Week

5 Things That Happened This Week

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Clark Boyd
Mar 15, 2020
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1. Twitter and Facebook were "stumped" by coronavirus misinformation - NY Times

The spread of fear is dangerous and it can be lucrative, for ghouls that choose to go that route.

Social networks claim they have been overwhelmed by the misinformation about COVID-19, with lots of fake stories popping up about how the virus was "cooked up in a Chinese lab" an…

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