One example we give is, before COVID 19, there were a number of websites, mostly in Europe, that claimed that the 5G technology caused cancer. We had rated several of these red because they published many hoaxes. When COVID 19 began, they began to publish the false claim that 5G caused COVID 19. We had already rated those sites red for being unreliable. People who had our rating would have had the chance to be warned and conclude, “Maybe this is not true,” whereas it took fact checkers days or weeks to see some COVID-19 false claims and then to report the claim.

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