Health officials right now aren’t just having to battle an illness with no known cure or vaccine — they’re having to fight back against Internet trolls and conspiracy theorists. The World Health Organization has labeled the current moment an “infodemic.”
You’ve probably come across a piece of bad information online, and you might not even know it. The virus was not created in a lab as a bioweapon, for instance, and inhaling hot air from a hairdryer is not a cure.
Experts say this outbreak may be the biggest source of Internet misinformation … ever.
Life Kit wants to help. Here’s a comic to help you sharpen your misinformation Spidey senses: