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The media promotes more fiction than fact about contemporary pandemics
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The coronavirus health crisis highlights the particular strengths of social media and how it brings people across the globe together, to make sense of what is truly happening.
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Pro claim 1
Celebrities have chosen to use their platforms to promote hygiene tips and the #stayathome campaign which has influenced a lot of their fan base to follow in their steps. In addition, the role social media and the internet plays in spreading information about COVID-19 has promoted youth to stay involved with our global situation and keep updated to understand what is happening in the world currently.
Con claim 1
A single voice/POV can easily spread and become widely accepted in an online community. The type of information that people are exposed to depends on their community. As such, most people aren't getting the full spectrum of information and if a piece of information spread is false, then that online community will potentially not have any information to counter it