{"id":10654,"date":"2021-10-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joggingvideo.com\/tech\/mobile\/5g-has-no-link-to-covid-19-as-false-conspiracy-theories-persist\/"},"modified":"2021-10-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T00:00:00","slug":"5g-has-no-link-to-covid-19-as-false-conspiracy-theories-persist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1800birks4u.com\/tech\/mobile\/5g-has-no-link-to-covid-19-as-false-conspiracy-theories-persist\/","title":{"rendered":"5G has no link to COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites.<\/p>\n
<\/span><\/p>\n As the\u00a0coronavirus<\/a><\/span> swept across the globe, so did rumors about what caused it and how it’s spread. One that’s persisted online is that 5G networks<\/a><\/span> caused the disease. A new one involves vaccines somehow being linked to 5G tracking. Both are completely wrong. Radio waves can’t create a virus, which is what causes COVID-19. And if someone wanted to track you, your phone is a more likely culprit than radio transmitters that are entirely too large to fit into a syringe.\u00a0<\/p>\n But that hasn’t stopped\u00a0threats against broadband engineers\u00a0and\u00a0possible arson attacks against UK phone towers, prompting UK carriers to ask people to stop burning the towers and the UK’s national medical director to call out the 5G conspiracy theory as “complete and utter rubbish.”\u00a0 The US Department of Homeland Security issued a warning last year about the potential threat to wireless equipment<\/a><\/span>. Communications networks are crucial in the fight against the pandemic.\u00a0<\/p>\n The COVID-19 conspiracy theory has spread on social media. Keri Hilson, an American singer with 4.2 million followers on Twitter, sent several tweets in April 2020 that attempted to link the coronavirus to 5G. She wrote: “People have been trying to warn us about 5G for YEARS. Petitions, organizations, studies…what we’re going thru is the affects [sic] of radiation. 5G launched in CHINA. Nov 1, 2019. People dropped dead.”<\/p>\n That same month, actor Woody Harrelson became the latest celebrity to falsely connect 5G to the coronavirus. He shared an article in an Instagram post, saying that while he hasn’t “fully vetted” rumors linking 5G to the pandemic sweeping the globe, “I find it very interesting.”<\/p>\n Others on YouTube and Facebook, including an anti-5G Facebook group, have also shared false claims. But YouTube that month said it would\u00a0remove 5G-coronavirus hoax videos<\/a><\/span>, implementing a ban one day after stopping just short of that. Twitter has started labeling tweets containing the hoax and adding links to legitimate sources of information (but it’s\u00a0had some trouble<\/a><\/span>).\u00a0<\/p>\n “We’re committed to providing timely and helpful information at this critical time, including raising authoritative content, reducing the spread of harmful misinformation and showing information panels, using NHS and WHO data, to help combat misinformation,” YouTube said in a statement. “Now any content that disputes the existence or transmission of COVID-19, as described by the WHO and local health authorities, is in violation of YouTube policies. This includes conspiracy theories which claim that the symptoms are caused by 5G.”<\/p>\n