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CORONAVIRUS FAKE NEWS

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               In the beginning of the Coronavirus pandemic in late February, fake news has multiplied and invaded social networks, the World Health Organization twisted the neck of several web sites denouncing their spread and insisting on correcting a large number of false informations. Many governments had the aim to highlight verified informations from official sources and also to spot fake news on the internet as quickly as possible in order to reduce their rise, they start managing to slip through the cracks and help to disentangle the true from the false. Like the one that announced the US military bring the Covid-19 to Wuhan in October 2019,  there are persistent rumors that the United states has a role to play in the spread of Coronavirus in China, a video was in the media in March 12, the Director of the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention Robert Redfield said it was likely that Coronavirus deaths had not been identified ...

Coronavirus:The main hospital in the city of Bergamo, Lombardy in Italy

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CORONAVIRUS FUNNIEST CRISIS "TOILET PAPER"

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                 As the Coronavirus pandemic spreads, households across the United States are hunkering down and emptying out store shelves that normally stocked with toilet paper and paper towels sit empty at all the big supermarket stores, toilet paper has become the ultimate symbol of the panic buying, it is seemingly scooped up as soon as new rolls hit the shelves, companies that help supply these everyday paper products are stunned and trying to adjust to this rapidly evolving new normal in consumer behavior. This run on toilet paper has struck many people as peculiar, given that the need for the product is not expected to grow as millions of Americans adjust to working from home, closed schools, canceled events and other abrupt interruptions to daily life caused by the pandemic, but stockpiling is not an uncommon reaction provoked by fear, social scientists say, fear of running out, fear of the unknown and what is coming in the fut...

CHINA AND US COLD WAR MENTALITY

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                                    China and United States standoff escalates as Beijing expels major US media staff, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post journalists among staff ordered to stop reporting and leave. China will expel US reporters of three major US news outlets, in a hugely damaging attack on foreign media coverage of the country and an escalation of the showdown over the press between Washington and Beijing. The decision announced just after midnight Beijing time, requires US citizens working for the three major media to halt reporting and hand in their press cards within 10 days, if their credential expire before the end of 2020. China usually gives journalists only 12 month visas and press cards, so the measure is likely to impact most correspondents, it will decimate some of the biggest newsrooms in China and force reporters with decades of experience cove...