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Health, Healing, and the Coronavirus
Title (Dublin Core)
Health, Healing, and the Coronavirus
Description (Dublin Core)
The “Found Conscious” Facebook page shared a video in which Thomas Cowan, MD describes the coronavirus pandemic in terms of his healing philosophy, claiming its related to 5G technology and metals. Within a week, Facebook reported more than 300,000 shares of this particular video. In the wake of ongoing concerns about “fake news,” social media platforms, including Facebook, have taken moves to censor expression. In this case, Facebook describes the presentation with a notice that it contains “False Information,” as checked by independent fact checkers. (See, for instance, the report of the independent experts: https://healthfeedback.org/claimreview/viral-claim-falsely-asserts-that-covid-19-is-due-to-5g-technology-rollout-not-a-virus/?fbclid=IwAR0qoEAF9-cy2H2Y42gw6sQfiTCw_-CfPKWjpO2kzMUif5Z4vN05kD6qWCI.) Broadly, the video reveals how the Internet has become a platform for sharing alternative narratives of COVID-19 and the pandemic, revealing a public trying to understand what it means to live during a pandemic.
Date (Dublin Core)
March 18, 2020
Creator (Dublin Core)
Thomas Cowan, MD
Contributor (Dublin Core)
Jordan Meyerl
Link (Bibliographic Ontology)
Publisher (Dublin Core)
Found Conscious Facebook page
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Pandemic Skeptics
English
Health & Wellness
English
Social Media (including Memes)
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
Facebook
health
5G
fake news
false information
fact check
Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)
Health information
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
03/18/2020
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
10/14/2020
08/05/2021
Date Created (Dublin Core)
03/18/2020
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