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WhatsApp s COVID-19 misinformation problem fueled amid second wave | India News

Highlights Just 13% of the respondents never fact-checked messages before sharing with others. Only 14% of respondents forwarded three or more messages to others. New Delhi: Besides crippling the medical healthcare infrastructure of India, the second wave of COVID-19 also came with a fake news plague on the internet, according to a recently conducted survey by doctors from Rochester, New York, and Pune, India.   The scientific study published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research a peer-reviewed journal, pointed out that ~30% of Indians relied on WhatsApp to receive information around COVID-19.  Around 30% of Indians fact-checked less than 50% of messages before forwarding, the survey revealed, adding that just 13% of the respondents never fact-checked messages before sharing to others. 

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