WHO offers free data for coronavirus info.
A post shared on Facebook in Kenya claims that the World Health Organization is offering free internet access, so people can easily find information about the Covid-19 pandemic., It claims that users can get “4GB data per day till 30th april” if they register with their email addresses., The post includes a link to an external website, but this website does not mention the WHO or free data packages. It appears to be clickbait, and may carry possibly harmful links., (Note: Please be careful as malware from suspicious websites could damage your computer or phone and compromise your privacy.), Similar posts have been shared on Twitter, with the promise that the WHO is giving away 1 gigabyte per day. Is the international organisation really offering free data?, No. WHO Kenya have shared a screenshot of one of the posts with a red “FAKE NEWS” stamp on it, on their official Twitter account. They tweeted “Fake news! Ignore.”, The claims of free data are false. – Grace Gichuhi, , "A fact-checker has rated your Facebook or Instagram post as “false”. What should you do? First, dont delete!", Click on our guide for the steps you should follow., Publishers guide, Africa Check is a partner in Facebook’s third-party fact-checking programme to help stop the spread of false information on social media., The content we rate as “false” will be downgraded on Facebook and Instagram. This means fewer people will see it., You can also help identify false information on Facebook. This guide explains how., Africa Check is working with the CoronaVirusFacts/DatosCoronaVirus Alliance, a coalition of more than 100 fact-checkers fighting misinformation about the Covid-19 pandemic., Learn more about the alliance here., , © Copyright Africa Check 2020. Read our republishing guidelines.\xa0You may reproduce this piece or content from it for the purpose of reporting and/or discussing news and current events. This is subject to: Crediting Africa Check in the byline, keeping all hyperlinks to the sources used and adding this sentence at the end of your publication: “This report was written by Africa Check, a non-partisan fact-checking organisation. View the original piece on their website", with a link back to this page., We depend on voluntary donations to run this site. Please help us to keep public figures accountable by supporting the project., Find out more, For democracy to function, public figures need to be held to account for what they say. The claims they make need to be checked, openly and impartially. Africa Check is an independent, non-partisan organisation which assesses claims made in the public arena using journalistic skills and evidence drawn from the latest online tools, readers, public sources and experts, sorting fact from fiction and publishing the results., , Get a weekly dose of facts, straight to your inbox.
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