One is biological: the virus itself – and the other is social: misinformation. Misinformed people put themselves and others at risk by taking dangerous quack cures, showing false confidence and mistrusting official guidance which is designed to minimise public harm.
Social media companies should be doing everything they can to get a handle on this – something we have repeatedly called for – not just because it’s a bad look for business, but because a vast number of human lives are at stake which makes it a fundamentally moral issue.
