Coronavirus: Fake and misleading stories that went viral this week
Weve all been there. A coronavirus post that could be true and sounds about right, but how do we know its accurate?To help, the BBCs disinformation-monitoring team is fact-checking and verifying some of the most widely shared fake and misleading stories of the week.Was Brooklyn rapping along to The Notorious B.I.G.?Residents of Brooklyn, in New York City, rapping in unison to one of The Notorious B.I.G.s biggest hits during lockdown sounds plausible, doesnt it?A video claiming exactly that has been shared thousands of times and clocked-up more than one million views in a few days.The video, shot from a tall building somewhere in New York, scans across apartment buildings that are apparently blaring out the song Juicy by deceased Brooklyn rappeHowever, the posts are fake. We know this because we found that, tipped off by a comment on one of the posts, the recording appears to be a match for a video from a Jay-Z concert in 2010.We also pinpointed the video to Manhattan not Brooklyn - probably the Upper West Side.So the video does not show a mass singalong that, if you read the comments, gave people goose bumps.Thats not a 5G antennaA video claiming to show people in China tearing down a 5G mobile antenna was shared on social media and has generated thousands of views.