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I think we all know this right now social media can be a lifeline in an age of social distancing but it's also home to people and organizations spreading disinformation even about kovat 19 Fox 13's max Roth joins us with a look at what Facebook is doing about it max this is an ongoing problem yeah it is it's on Facebook in general and with Kovan 19 specifically you know there are foreign governments wanting to make us all angry at each other there are some people who might be malicious or even mentally ill who say things like Coppa 19 doesn't exist the founder of internet provider X Mission knows better Pete Ashdown actually had kovat 19 he feels better now but he thinks he got it on a trip to London it was literally not only shoulder to shoulder it was nose to nose in that subway Pete Ashdown is feeling better and he knew better than to take some of the advice he saw online is that drinking alcohol would somehow save you from the corona virus when in fact it reduces your immune system facts are easy to check he says but Facebook hasn't done it well I've been terrible at it in my office opinion and it's affected our elections which is the core of our democracy misinformation about kovat 19 is everywhere the astrophysicist who says the virus came from space nope the senior Chinese officer who says the truth is far worse than the media are telling you nope on instagram the story Vladimir Putin unleashed more than 500 lions on the streets of Russia to enforce stay at home orders funny but nope that one got erased as partly false a recent survey from the Pew Research Center shows 3 and 10 Americans think kovat 19 was created in a lab in this post Facebook's vice president of integrity says they're contacting people who have passed on fake news the thing is they're not telling people that they got something wrong so if you got this message that says help friends and family avoid false information about kovat 19 you probably would not think I must have passed on false information Ashdown says the key to taking in information online always consider the source I think the majority of people on the internet want to trust what they're seeing online but you shouldn't trust anything yeah you know what Ashdown suggests is look for where the information comes from and verify it yourself there are a whole lot of reliable sources out there universities to media government agencies who have their reputations on the line if they pass on something that's flat-out wrong live in the newsroom max Roth Fox 13 News Utah