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Health, Healing, and the Coronavirus

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Health, Healing, and the Coronavirus

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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

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Publisher (Dublin Core)

Found Conscious Facebook page

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Pandemic Skeptics
English Health & Wellness
English Social Media (including Memes)

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Facebook
health
5G
fake news
false information
fact check

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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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