#COVID19: Social media both a blessing and a curse during coronavirus pandemic
March 22, 2020
Fuyuki Kurasawa, Harris Ali
Author of Article
We are facing an unprecedented crisis of public understanding. Western digital corporations and social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat and Reddit) and their Chinese equivalents (WeChat, Weibo, Tencent and Toutiao) are at the heart of this crisis. These platforms act as facilitators and multipliers of COVID-19-related misinformation.