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As India suffers a devastating second wave of coronavirus, misinformation about home remedies, steam inhalation and vaccines spreads almost unchecked on Facebook – just not in English. Jasper Jackson, Sarah Haque and Rahul Meesaraganda report from The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
Of more than 150 examples of misinformation in Hindi, posted on Facebook pages and in public groups over 30 days in April and May, less than 10 had been marked as misinformation by early June.