NSTworld: Six Indonesians have been arrested for allegedly spreading misinformation online about the deadly coronavirus. covid19 fakenews
A woman in Indonesia’s second-biggest city Surabaya was arrested Monday for spreading inaccurate claims on Facebook a patient was being treated for the virus in the city, police said.
All six suspects are accused of violating laws banning the spread of misinformation, which carries as much as six years in prison. Last month, two Indonesian women were arrested for allegedly posting virus-linked misinformation in a country with some 130 million people online – among the globe’s biggest internet audiences.Scientists have questioned the relatively low number of cases in the world’s fourth most populous country, and suggested there could be many more people with the illness.
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