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Coronavirus: How bad information goes viral

There's a huge amount of misleading information circulating online about coronavirus from dodgy health tips to speculation about government plans. This is the story of how one post went viral.

Published: 22 March 2020

With misinformation about coronavirus spreading faster than the virus itself, Marianna Spring from BBC Trending and Olga Robinson from BBC Monitoring pool their resources to trace the origin of a hugely popular post and how it mutated.

Coronavirus misinformation