The news greets me in the morning with this:
"As the coronavirus has spread around the world, so has
misinformation about the disease.
Technology giants have touted the steps they are taking to combat
coronavirus misinformation, but these efforts have failed to help the
Benassis. The family's suffering highlights the potential for blatant
falsehoods to be rewarded and amplified by social media platforms. It
also serves as a powerful reminder that misinformation online, however
wild or obviously untrue it may seem, can have real and lasting
consequences offline."
The pandemic has surely become an open door of opportunities. Regimes, business interests, churches, pundits and many groups of various persuasions have begun to wager on these opportunities. The discourse on television and particularly on cyberspace, no doubt, has become a Pandora's asylum for both the tamed and the malevolent, and even for the fence-sitters in between.
