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Jethro Moller (He/Him)

I'm from South Africa and I've been seeing a lot of fake news recently. I saw an article about people saying they don't want vaccines and that the corona virus isn't really contagious and its just a government ploy to kill off people and they must do everything they can to not get tested (because thats how they get the virus - unbelievable) and vaccinated.

These messages are being passed around so easily and I feel like if people only were better informed it would go a long way to curtailing this.

In light of this I'd like to make a whatsapp bot that you can forward things to and it will tell you whether its fake news or not.

What do you guys think?