Prof. Mahmoud Alghizzawi: I totally agree with you. So, we must be careful about Social media news especially that half if not most of the Social media news are fabricated. For this reason, I have an RG discussion thread that says:

Social media are markets for selling news; at least half of them are fake!

For accurate information, I mostly rely on published research articles.

Hay que acudir a fuentes oficiales y fiables. Fuentes reconocidas y solventes.

I apologize for you Valentín-Alejandro Martínez Fernández , but I cannot understand the language

I agree with you Arvind Singh that it is the highest credibility, but in case you are not a scientific researcher and this slide is a lot of people, from where they will get the accurate information

@ Mahmoud Alghizzawi

Accurate information about coronavirus (COVID-19) can be obtained from the websites of World Health Organization (WHO) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Thanks!

Sometimes some of what you may term as misinformation guides people to scare away from carelessness and chances to infect others. The main point is, we still know little about this deadly virus, I must tell you. To filter some info from others is still hard. There are several unknown especially about the dynamics of transmission. The spread is so fast that any good thinking man could imagine. Less than 3 months, about 200,000 cases surged with over 13,000 deaths ensued and over 250 borders have been crossed by this virus.

Thank you Kamoru A. Adedokun for sharing your point of view

Hello. in my opinion the best source for getting correct and reliable information is websites of WHO world health organization and ministry of health. so those information in social media should be checked first in this websites.

I agree with you Loya Izadi , it is always best to rely on the main source of any information you are looking for in order to be highly reliable and accurate.

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We are gravely concerned with the serious risks posed to all countries, particularly developing and least developed countries. In such situation rumors spread like a forest fire, even faster than corona virus. So rumors and wrong information are more potent than any microbe.

Amid COVID-19 pandemic better to get refrain from such disastrous misinformation flowing from common sources. We need only to rely on news from authenticated sources and from scientific platforms.

Thank you Manju Tembhre for your participation in clarifying the seriousness of the rumor and the importance of dealing with it. Strongly agree with you.

Yes, the development of this type of unusual events, cataclysms, unresolved global problems, topics generating many questions to which we do not yet know the answer, such as the SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus pandemic causing Covid-19 disease are a source, inspire many discussions conducted on portals new online media, including social media portals. On the other hand, the development of social media portals is determined to a large extent by allowing many people to participate in open access discussions. Interesting, current, puzzling topics increase the number of posts and comments posted on social media portals and increase information traffic, which is important for achieving business goals, including the generation of high revenues from displayed advertisements by companies operating individual social media portals. Of course, there are situations that in some posted posts and comments are entered unconfirmed messages, inconsistent with facts and scientific knowledge as well as so-called fake news. Leading companies should ensure a high level of credibility, reliability and substantiveness of specific content, data and information posted in posts and comments. In practice, however, it is up to the users of social media portals a lot to maintain high standards in terms of reliability, reliability, and substantiveness of specific content, data and information posted in posts and comments. Therefore, both companies offering specific information services on the Internet and users of those services should try to apply the principles of corporate social responsibility of their business. In this way, the development of these online information services will also be effective in subsequent years.

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Dariusz Prokopowicz

I would like to add that such are the realities and specificity of social media portals, which develop, among others, thanks to the viral marketing formula and open access to publishing specific content contained in posts, entries, comments, banners, etc. posted by users of social media portals on these portals.

Greetings,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

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Always get your information and updates from reliable and valid resources. Rely less on information obtained from social media.

One should trust on the reliable information, which can be gathered from Government Agency/ International Organization/scientific journals.The information received through social media is not authentic.

Reliable sources of information could be listening to regular Television channels, news papers, reports of WHO - these are most authentic.

Dr Mahmoud : The most reliable or at least less mendacious news can be gleaned from scientific journals with high Impact Factor. The other efficacious , if only overly cautious source are the News Bulletin emanating from the WHO!!

@Ijaz Durrani thanks for your opinion, that's write, one must take authentic source of info in account. I guess many people don't have access to reliable source or they find it easy to get acquainted with informations flooded on social media.

Prof. Mahmoud Alghizzawi: I totally agree with you. So, we must be careful about Social media news especially that half if not most of the Social media news are fabricated. For this reason, I have an RG discussion thread that says:

Social media are markets for selling news; at least half of them are fake!