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新冠肺炎疫情期间，不少人把社交媒体作为主要信息People cross a street during morning peak hour commute amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Singapore June 3, 2020. [Photo/Agencies] People who rely on social media for information about coronavirus are more likely to believe conspiracy theories and go outside with symptoms or breach lockdown rules, a new study revealed. 一项最新研究显示，把社交媒体作为新冠肺炎疫情主要信息Research published by the Psychological Medicine journal found that 60 percent of people who believe that Covid-19 was directly linked to the world's growing 5G network used YouTube as their primary source of news. 研究发现，认为新冠肺炎与全球不断增加的5G网络直接相关的人中，有60%将YouTube作为主要资讯And those who preferred Facebook to get their information 54 percent believed the 5G conspiracy theory compared to 20 percent who did not and 26 percent who were not sure. 而喜欢在脸书上获取信息的人中，54%的人相信5G阴谋论，20%的人不相信，26%的人不确定。 The 5G link to coronavirus has been widely debunked by Governments and tech experts. Yet people have been damaging masts or even setting fire to them while phone and broadband engineers have been harrassed and threatened leading to public information campaigns in some countries. 多国政府和技术专家都反驳了5G与新冠病毒有关这一谣言。然而，在一些国家，人们一直在破坏甚至纵火焚烧5G基站，电话和宽带工程师受到骚扰和威胁也导致了公共信息宣传活动的举行。 | 
