As the coronavirus spreads, misinformation is spreading even faster | Julia Carrie Wong

Even some news outlets are publishing articles about the illness that are hyperbolic, fear-mongering and at times blatantly misleading It's no coincidence that internet phenomena share a vocabulary with certain diseases. As fast as a viral pathogen can spread in a world connected by air travel, bad information can move even faster. Very few people outside of China have been infected with the new coronavirus that was first detected late last year and was declared a global health emergency this we...