隨著冠狀病毒的傳播，網(wǎng)絡(luò)上的錯(cuò)誤信息也在傳播

隨著冠狀病毒的傳播，網(wǎng)絡(luò)上的錯(cuò)誤信息也在傳播

False claims about how the coronavirus began, the number of people infected and promises of magical cures are spreading on the internet.

關(guān)于冠狀病毒是如何開(kāi)始的，感染人數(shù)以及神奇療法的承諾等虛假說(shuō)法正在互聯(lián)網(wǎng)上傳播。

The rise in false or misleading online posts about the virus, which has infected thousands of people primarily in mainland China, could once again test the ability of social media companies to handle viral misinformation on their platforms.

關(guān)于該病毒的虛假或誤導(dǎo)性在線(xiàn)帖子的增加，可能會(huì)再次考驗(yàn)社交媒體公司在其平臺(tái)上處理病毒式錯(cuò)誤信息的能力。該病毒已感染了數(shù)千人，主要發(fā)生在中國(guó)大陸。

Maarten Schenk from Lead Stories, a fact-checking organization that works with Facebook, said his team has observed the sharing of conspiracy theories on multiple social platforms about the origins of the virus.

與臉書(shū)合作的事實(shí)核查組織“頭條新聞”的馬爾滕·申克表示，他的團(tuán)隊(duì)觀察到多個(gè)社交平臺(tái)上關(guān)于病毒起源的陰謀論共享。

"It always has to be something sinister," Schenk said of the conspiracy theorists' misinformation, which includes false claims that the virus was the creation of a government.

“它總是有一些邪惡的東西，”申克談到陰謀論者的錯(cuò)誤信息，包括錯(cuò)誤地聲稱(chēng)病毒是政府創(chuàng)造的。

Some people, Schenk said, are "not trusting the narrative about the numbers of deaths and infections." He noted there are people citing "secret military sources," who almost certainly do not exist, claiming that tens of thousands of people have died as a result of the virus, far in excess of current estimates from official sources.

申克說(shuō)，有些人“不相信死亡和感染人數(shù)的說(shuō)法”。他指出，有些人引用了“秘密軍事消息來(lái)源”，而這些消息來(lái)源幾乎肯定不存在。他聲稱(chēng)，已有數(shù)萬(wàn)人死于這種病毒，遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)超出了目前官方消息來(lái)源的估計(jì)。

A Facebook spokesperson told CNN Business it was working with its fact-checking partners to debunk false claims about the virus. Once Facebook (FB) posts and links containing claims are fact-checked and found to be false, a Facebook spokesperson said, the platform "dramatically" cuts its distribution and people who see this content, try to share it, or already have, are alerted that it's false."

臉書(shū)的一位發(fā)言人告訴CNN商務(wù)，該公司正在與事實(shí)核查合作伙伴合作，以揭穿有關(guān)該病毒的虛假聲明。臉書(shū)的一名發(fā)言人表示，一旦臉書(shū)的帖子和鏈接經(jīng)過(guò)事實(shí)核查，發(fā)現(xiàn)是假的，該平臺(tái)就會(huì)“大幅”削減其傳播，那些看到、試圖分享或已經(jīng)分享這些內(nèi)容的人就會(huì)被告知這是假的。

The company pointed to several fact-checks, including one from PolitiFact that reads, "No, there is no vaccine for the Wuhan coronavirus," and another from AFP that states, "The coronavirus plaguing China was not created by a US government agency."

該公司指出了幾項(xiàng)事實(shí)核查，其中一項(xiàng)來(lái)自PolitiFact，上面寫(xiě)著:“不，沒(méi)有針對(duì)武漢冠狀病毒的疫苗”，另一項(xiàng)來(lái)自法新社，上面寫(xiě)道:“困擾中國(guó)的冠狀病毒不是由美國(guó)政府機(jī)構(gòu)創(chuàng)造的。”

A video purporting to show an explosion in Wuhan, the city in China at the center of the coronavirus, was posted on YouTube last week and has been viewed almost 90.000 times.

上周，一段據(jù)稱(chēng)顯示中國(guó)武漢爆發(fā)冠狀病毒的視頻被發(fā)布在YouTube上，點(diǎn)擊量近9萬(wàn)次。武漢是冠狀病毒的中心城市。

The video's description suggests the explosion is in some way related to the coronavirus, but the video is actually from 2015. according to Lead Stories.

視頻的描述表明爆發(fā)在某種程度上與冠狀病毒有關(guān)，但根據(jù)頭條新聞，視頻實(shí)際上是2015年的。

A Google (GOOGL) spokesperson pointed CNN Business to policy changes in recent years for Google and its video platform YouTube, which are designed to surface information from authoritative sources at the top of search results. Like Facebook, the company doesn't wipe false claims from its platforms entirely.

谷歌的一位發(fā)言人向CNN指出，谷歌和其視頻平臺(tái)YouTube近年來(lái)的政策變化，旨在將權(quán)威來(lái)源的信息顯示在搜索結(jié)果的頂部。與臉書(shū)一樣，該公司也不會(huì)完全清除其平臺(tái)上的虛假聲明。

On Twitter, users searching for "coronavirus" in the US and other countries, including Hong Kong, Brazil, and Australia, are first prompted to visit official channels of information about the virus. In the US, Twitter directs users to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, beneath a bold headline that reads: "Know the facts."

在推特上，搜索美國(guó)和其他國(guó)家(包括香港、巴西和澳大利亞)的“冠狀病毒”的用戶(hù)首先會(huì)被提示訪問(wèn)有關(guān)該病毒的官方信息渠道。在美國(guó)，推特將用戶(hù)引導(dǎo)至疾病控制和預(yù)防中心，標(biāo)題醒目，寫(xiě)著：“了解事實(shí)。”