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With coronavirus and bushfires, Australia is in the perfect conditions for fake news to flourish. Here’s how you tackle it – ABC News
From bushfires to a pandemic, it’s been a big year for news and for fake news. But how can you spot fact from fake and keep yourself well-informed?
Not long after news of a virus outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan began to spread worldwide, this image hit the internet:
Some people claimed it was a map of Wuhan travellers across the 2020 Lunar New Year. Tabloids in the United Kingdom picked it up. Channel 7’s Sunrise used it in a live segment.
This image of flight patterns was presented out of context online, and led to a number of incorrect stories being shared.(Source: Online)
But it did not represent the outbreak. It showed a year’s…
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