Twitter has announced that it will be adding fact-checking labels to tweets that suggest a link between 5G mobile networks and the coronavirus, after a rash of conspiracy theories that tie 5G networks to COVID-19. Conspiracy theories claiming that 5G networks supposedly exacerbate the spread of the virus or actually cause it, have spread like wildfire — and in some cases, resulted in literal fires.
Rather than deleting or hiding these tweets, the social media platform will display them with a message that reads, “Get the facts on Covid-19” that when clicked on, brings users to a page titled “No, 5G isn’t causing coronavirus.”
