The celebrity cash giveaway and other coronavirus stories fact-checked
BBC teams are fact-checking some of the most popular fake and misleading coronavirus stories on social media. Jack Goodman and Flora Carmichael bring together what's been debunked this week by BBC Monitoring, Trending and Reality Check.Thousands of posts have been circulating on Facebook offering huge cash prizes to"help" people financially affected by the coronavirus outbreak.
The most widely shared example we've seen includes a link for people to"collect their prize". It looks likeA video accompanying one of the posts shows someone handling stacks of money and has had more than four million views. However, the president of Madagascar has unveiled what he claims to be a"preventative remedy" this week.
President Rajoelina announced the partial lifting of quarantine measures on the same day as the launch of the drink.
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