The Infodemic Surrounding COVID-19

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 (Coronavirus, 2019) global pandemic, the international community has had to battle the virus itself along with a series of misinformation that has elongated the issues surrounding its spread. The World Health Organization coined the term ‘infodemic‘ to describe the rapid spread of misleading or fabricated news surrounding COVID-19. An ‘infodemic’ takes numerous shapes […]