英国广播公司开展的调查发现,新冠病毒的错误信息会导致袭击、纵火和死亡。医生、专家和受害者还向英国广播公司讲述了他们的经历。
Online rumours led to mob attacks in India and mass poisonings in Iran. Telecommunications engineers have been threatened and attacked and phone masts have been set alight in the UK and other countries because of conspiracy theories that have been incubated and amplified online.
网络谣言导致了印度的暴徒袭击和伊朗的大规模中毒事件。在英国和其他一些国家,由于阴谋论在网上酝酿和扩散,电信工程师受到威胁和攻击,通信基站被点燃。
Social media also helps scammers to take advantage of the pandemic, selling ineffective badges that claim to ward off the virus, and urging followers to part with money in exchange for a "mineral miracle supplement", which is - in reality - diluted bleach.
社交媒体还帮助骗子利用疫情,销售声称可以抵御病毒的无效徽章,并敦促粉丝购买“矿物质奇迹补充剂”,实际上,这是稀释的漂白剂。
新冠病毒疫苗面临阴谋论威胁
As vaccines emerge, there is the further threat that anti-vaccine campaigners will use the platform provided by social media to persuade people not to protect themselves.
随着疫苗的出现,反疫苗活动人士将利用社交媒体平台来说服人们不要注射,这是进一步的威胁。
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