South America “Focus on corona spread through mobile phone” fake news caused damage on June 21, 7:23
In South America, where the new coronavirus infection is rapidly expanding, there were cases where some residents believed that the radio waves of mobile phones were spreading the infection, destroying the tower or confining engineers. Fake news has caused a lot of damage such as waking up.
In South America, infections are rapidly expanding, mainly in Brazil and Peru, and fake news about the new coronavirus is spreading on the internet and in word of mouth, which is becoming a social problem.
Among them, in Peru, in the middle of this month, there was a case in which residents who believed in fake news that a new communication standard "5G" is spreading the new coronavirus imprisoned eight engineers of a communication company.
Regarding "5G", there was an incident that people who believed in fake news destroyed the radio tower not only in Peru but also in Bolivia, and the governments of South American countries said, "The radio waves of mobile phones are spreading the new coronavirus. There is no situation”.
In addition, in Peru and Brazil, those who believed in fake news that smoking a smoke of burning some herbs could suppress the infection with the new coronavirus, burned the herbs at home and caused a smoke or smoke. People who inhale are being transported to hospitals one after another.
The governments of South American countries are calling on their websites not to believe in the fake news that is flooding the internet, but those who believe in it have a hard time responding.