{"id":99778,"date":"2020-12-17T10:00:20","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T04:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/the-infodemic-negative-effects-of-covid-19-lockdowns-not-evidence-of-genocide\/"},"modified":"2020-12-17T21:21:39","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T15:21:39","slug":"the-infodemic-negative-effects-of-covid-19-lockdowns-not-evidence-of-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/the-infodemic-negative-effects-of-covid-19-lockdowns-not-evidence-of-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"The Infodemic: Negative Effects of COVID-19 Lockdowns Not Evidence of &#8216;Genocide&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Fake news about the coronavirus can do real harm. Polygraph.info is spotlighting fact-checks from other reliable sources here\u200b.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Daily Debunk<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Claim:<\/strong> The negative effects of the COVID-19 lockdown are evidence of &quot;genocide.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Verdict:<\/strong> False<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read the full story at:<\/strong> Reuters<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Social Media Disinfo<\/strong><\/h3>\n<figure>\n<p><img alt=\"Screenshot\" src=\"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/5CD55CE8-8336-4F5E-A531-E5A7CFBB92F1_w250_r0_s-1.jpg\"\/><\/p><figcaption>Screenshot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Circulating on social media:<\/strong> A recipe for a Sri Lankan faith healer&#039;s COVID-19 &quot;miracle cure&quot; that purportedly offers \u201clifetime protection\u201d against the disease.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Verdict:<\/strong> Misleading<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read the full story at: <\/strong>Agence France-Presse<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Factual Reads on Coronavirus<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Behind Each of More Than 300,000 Lives Lost: A Name, a Caregiver, a Family, a Story<\/strong><br \/>More than 300,000 people have died from COVID-19 in the United States.<br \/>&#8212; Kaiser Health News, December 15<\/p>\n<p><strong>The coronavirus at 1: A year into the pandemic, what scientists know about how it spreads, infects, and sickens<\/strong><br \/>The coronavirus behind the pandemic presents some vexing dualities.<br \/>&#8212; Stat, December 14<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fake news about the coronavirus can do real harm. Polygraph.info is spotlighting fact-checks from other reliable sources here\u200b. Daily Debunk Claim: The negative effects of the COVID-19 lockdown are evidence of &quot;genocide.&quot; Verdict: False Read the full story at: Reuters Social Media Disinfo Screenshot Circulating on social media: A recipe for a Sri Lankan faith [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99779,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}