Twitter puts fact-checking label on tweets linking 5G with coronavirus

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Twitter puts fact-checking label on tweets linking 5G with coronavirus
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Twitter is showing a message on offending tweets that reads 'Get the facts on Covid-19.' When clicked, the link takes users to a Twitter page titled 'No 5G isn't causing coronavirus.'

Twitter is putting labels on tweets that wrongly link the spread of the coronavirus with 5G mobile networks.

Instead of deleting or hiding such tweets, Twitter is showing a message on them that reads "Get the facts on Covid-19." When clicked on, users are taken to a page titled "No 5G isn't causing coronavirus" which debunks the conspiracy theory by linking to credible media websites and other official sources.

featuring an interview with Icke after being alerted to it by CNBC last month, however Apple left the same podcast on its platform.News of Twitter's latest labeling comes after dozens of cell towers were torched in the U.K., while telecom engineers have been harassed on the streets, apparently in connection with the bogus claims linking 5G technology with Covid-19.

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