The U.N. chief decried what he described as a global "misinfo-demic'' that is spreading harmful health advice, "snake-oil solutions,'' falsehoods, and wild conspiracy theories. Guterres urged social media organizations to do more to counter the misinformation and to ``root out hate and harmful assertions about COVID-19.'' "What we are doing is we will push out scientifically based information, information that will help us as a global community fight the virus,`` he said. "Social media companies, news organizations are making those decisions all the time, but I think it is important that we all do what we can to fight the spread of dangerous misinformation on fighting the virus.'' The secretary-general saluted ``journalists and others fact-checking the mountain of misleading stories and social media posts.''

Source: The Standard April 16, 2020 01:43 UTC