Read: Our guide to stay safe from the social media 'infodemic'

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Ramsha Jahangir gives us tools to assure that the information we are getting about the coronavirus pandemic is accurate.

As much of the world grapples with the Covid-19 pandemic, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared an “infodemic” — an over-abundance of information, some accurate and some not — that makes it hard for people to find trustworthy sources and reliable data.

The internet is inundated with coronavirus misinformation with people sharing unverified claims about where the virus came from, its symptoms, prevention, and misleading updates.

Read her list of infodemic survival tools here.

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