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WA hotel quarantine security guards to be given greater powers to stop people breaching rules
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Security guards at Western Australia s quarantine hotels will be given specific powers to stop people leaving and breaching quarantine directions, Acting Premier Roger Cook has announced.
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Rules used to assess if travellers are high-risk are also being tightened
It comes as a 34-year-old man has been charged with breaching quarantine
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Jenny D Ubios, who goes by the name Jennifer Gonzalez on Facebook, soaked up online conspiracies before escaping hotel quarantine.
Trapped under quarantine and ravaged by allergies in a Perth, Australia hotel room, Jenny D Ubios slid into an internet vortex of conspiracy theories in the week before her Boxing Day escape. The self-described fringe scientist shared with her Facebook followers articles about the dangers of 5G, a post by an anti-fluoride group that suggested coronavirus was a hoax, a video about the Covid-19 test (which was blocked by Facebook) and support for Reignite Democracy Australia, an activist group that sprang up in protest against the Melbourne lockdown.
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Later that morning, she walked out of the hotel.
The coronavirus pandemic has sharpened focus on the harms caused by the dissemination of false information, with the internet variously peddling false cures, denialism and rampant speculation about who might have caused outbreaks in particular areas.
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Between March and October, Facebook and Instagram removed more than 12 million pieces of misinformation and displayed warnings on 167 million pieces of content. A Facebook spokesman said the group had a clear policy on vaccine misinformation to remove false claims, including conspiracy theories.
Jenny D Ubios escaped Perth hotel quarantine.
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Several groups and individuals, including controversial chef Pete Evans, have been banned from Facebook. Most of them moved to other platforms, where they were free to become more radical but lost most of their followers.