#COVID-19: Social Media Both a Blessing and a Curse during Coronavirus Pandemic

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 the crisis. These platforms act as facilitators and multipliers of COVID-19-related misinformation. See the article featured in the Conversation by Harris Ali and Fuyuki Kurasawa here.