#NoComaCuento

Informaciones falsas impulsan pánico sobre coronavirus en redes sociales

Videos, imágenes y teorías de conspiración pululan en Facebook y WhatsApp

Pedestrians wear surgical masks in London's China Town on January 24, 2020. - European airports from London to Moscow stepped up checks Wednesday on flights from the Chinese city at the heart of a new SARS-like virus that has killed 17 people and spread to the United States. Britain advised against "all but essential travel" to Wuhan -- the central China city from where the virus spread -- while European health authorities put the threat of the virus spreading to "moderate". The coronavirus has sparked alarm because of its similarity to the outbreak of SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) that killed nearly 650 people across mainland China and Hong Kong in 2002-03. The new virus emerged on the eve of the Lunar New Year holiday during which hundreds of million travel across China to meet up with their families. (Photo by Ben STANSALL / AFP)
Pedestrians wear surgical masks in London's China Town on January 24, 2020. - European airports from London to Moscow stepped up checks Wednesday on flights from the Chinese city at the heart of a new SARS-like virus that has killed 17 people and spread to the United States. Britain advised against "all but essential travel" to Wuhan -- the central China city from where the virus spread -- while European health authorities put the threat of the virus spreading to "moderate". The coronavirus has sparked alarm because of its similarity to the outbreak of SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) that killed nearly 650 people across mainland China and Hong Kong in 2002-03. The new virus emerged on the eve of the Lunar New Year holiday during which hundreds of million travel across China to meet up with their families. (Photo by Ben STANSALL / AFP) BEN STANSALL
Los titulares de los medios sensacionalistas y la histórica desconfianza ante el gobierno chino, han facilitado la propagación de rumores. Foto: AFP. (BEN STANSALL/AFP)

Un diluvio de informaciones falsas sobre la epidemia de neumonía viral que afecta a China se propaga en las redes sociales y alimenta el pánico de la población, como el video de una persona comiendo un murciélago o los falsos balances de víctimas mortales.

En Hong Kong, Phoebe, una médico de 40 años, dice estar consternada por los mensajes recibidos en los últimos días en el grupo formado por su familia en WhatsApp.

‌
‌

‌

‌
‌

‌

‌