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Coronavirus: Institut Pasteur warns against false information circulating on social media

  • As the COVID-19 outbreak continues to spread in France, multiple emails and messages are circulating on social media and messaging platforms. Some of these messages contain misleading information, and some are supposedly based on the expertise of scientists at the Institut Pasteur. The Institut Pasteur asks you not to take any notice of this information and not to pass it on. 

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The Institut Pasteur's scientists have been working since the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak to deal with this unprecedented situation.

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Watch Olivier Schwartz’s video in response to the fake news that circulated this week on social media

 

  • Following the spread of fake news on social networks this week, several Pasteurians may have received malicious questions, messages or calls. If this is your case, find on Webcampus the procedure to follow to report it. This approach will remain valid if other fake news should emerge.

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