Covid vaccine scams hit Asia

February 13, 2021

Fraudsters in Asia are sending out fake texts, offering a Covid vaccine or registration for vaccine in an attempt to steal personal and financial information...

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No, COVID-19 vaccines neither make farmers sterile nor is a government ploy to take over their land

February 1, 2021

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A Facebook page and its corresponding Youtube channel claim that coronavirus vaccination is an attempt to make people infertile so that people stop reproducing...

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Can red ant chutney cure Coronavirus?

January 9, 2021

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Multiple Facebook posts claim that red ant chutney (sauce) is the divine medicine for coronavirus. We fact-checked the claim and found the origin of this...

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Facebook to prohibit ads that discourage vaccines

December 8, 2020

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Facebook has said it will start prohibiting Ads that discourage vaccines and will also remove false claims about COVID-19 vaccines. Facebook is strengthening...

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100 fake COVID-19 WhatsApp forwards that we almost believed

December 6, 2020

The spread of dubious claims and false information during the coronavirus outbreak has been rapid on the popular messaging platform – WhatsApp. Here...

Speakers on Misinformation in Medicine Summit to discuss the learnings from COVID-19

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COVID-19 from the frontlines of global public health

November 28, 2020

The year 2020 has been an extremely tough year. The enormity of the COVID-19 pandemic has halted life as we knew it and has killed more than 1 million people...

speakers on Misinformation-in-Medicine-Summit 2020

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Great expectations: Curtain raiser to the biggest global summit on misinformation in medicine

November 20, 2020

Convened by DataLEADS, the Misinformation in Medicine Summit is hosted by the Google News Initiative as a part of the APAC Trusted Media Summit 2020. The event...