Researchers at data news website Pointer have found that at least 50 Twitter trolls in the Netherlands are using the social media platform to spread conspiracy theories about coronavirus. The researchers studied 1.7 million tweets about the virus and identified 50 trolls and a further 500 ‘suspect’ accounts. ‘Over the past five months, 530 messages containing misinformation about coronavirus have been shared multiple times,’ according to Pointer.
Rumour and fear-mongering can only make things worse in an environment already devastated by the pandemic - what are your views?






