From selling fake coronavirus cures online to a cyberattack on hospitals’ critical information systems, criminals are exploiting the COVID-19 crisis, the United Nations has warned, as it also steps up its fight against a proliferation of
false information about the virus.
https://www.un.org/en/un-coronavirus-communication...
※「ウイルスに効く」と称するニセ薬の販売から、病院システムへのサイバー攻撃(ランサムウエア攻撃など)まで、広い範囲のことを国連は "false information" と呼んでいる。
There are many rumors and
false information spreading about the coronavirus. We ask that everyone take care to not fall for
false information or rumors, and to not spread information like this to others.
http://en.apu.ac.jp/home/news/article/?storyid=317...
※日本にある大学の、留学生向けの注意情報ページより。
On March 27, the Philippine National Police filed a criminal complaint against Batuigas, owner of the Latigo News TV news portal, and Virata, an independent online reporter, for spreading
“false information” about the country’s COVID-19 crisis, Rappler reported.
https://cpj.org/2020/04/two-reporters-charged-for-...
※Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) のニュース記事。フィリピン当局がこのような用語を使っているということを引用符付きで表している。
Listed below are all the news and information sites in the U.S., the U.K., France, Italy, and Germany that we have identified — 163 so far — as publishing materially
false information about the virus.
https://www.newsguardtech.com/coronavirus-misinfor...
※ネット上の「デマ」サイト、陰謀論サイトのリンク集のページ。