Snopes is fighting "the deadliest information crisis we might ever have," as it struggles to keep up with the high demand for coronavirus answers.
Lemons won't cure the coronavirus. Eating bananas will not reduce your chances of contracting COVID-19. And Nostradamus did not predict this pandemic.
Now, amid what the World Health Organization has dubbed a fake news"infodemic," Snopes is tasked with answering the questions tens of millions of internet users may have about the truth of conspiracies, scams, and hoaxes proliferating online. The desperation and high demand for answers about the coronavirus has created an atmosphere rife with misinformation. Snopes has seen around 36 million unique users visit its site in the last 30 days, a 50% increase in traffic compared with the previous 30-day period.
In an open letter Snopes recently published on its website, the team told its readers it wouldn't be able to ramp up productivity to respond to a growing demand for information and allow its employees' lives"spin out into more disorientating and distressing states.
Misinformation is spreading faster than tech companies are able to take it down. The failure to prevent this spread during the coronavirus outbreak highlights the breakdown of the fact-checking industry as a whole, Green told Business Insider. Facebook, Twitter, and Google have made policy changes in an attempt to stymie the flow of inaccurate information.
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