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“停课不停学”：2020 高考英语时事热点拓展阅读(五) Passage1 当心！和病毒一起传播的还有谣言。 词数 333 建议阅读时间 5分钟 Asthe coronavirus spreads, misinformation is spreading evenfaster On Jan. 30, the World Health Organization declared a public health emergency. As of the same date, there had been 170 deaths from the virus, all of them in China. Globally, there had been 7,818 confirmed casesofthenovelcoronavirus(冠状病毒). It’sno coincidencethat internet phenomena share avocabulary with certain diseases.As fast as aviral can spread in aworld connectedby air travel, badinformation canmoveeven faster. Half of the top 10 most shared English-language links about coronavirus on Facebook from the month of January were hyperbolic ( 夸张的) , fear-mongering and at times extremely misleading articlesfrom actualnewsoutlets,accordingto areview ofdatafrom CrowdTangle. Among the extremely misleading is an article by the Daily Mail suggesting that the coronavirus outbreak was caused by Chinese people eating “bat soup” that was shared more than 96,000timeson Facebook. The “bat soup” canard (谣言) is a classic example of disinformation — and a potent one. Likemuch ofthemostpersuasive disinformation,the story involveselementsoftruth taken out of context andrepackagedin away that seemstruebecauseit affirms(肯定) aparticularworldview. In this case, actual footage of a Chinese woman eating a bat in soup was ripped out of its actual context and spuriously (错误地) linked to the fact that some coronaviruses originate from bats,in ordertocreatea story that appealedto awestern audience’sracist fascinationwith Chinese appetites. Unsurprisingly, articles debunking (揭穿) the story have not traveled nearly as far on social media as the original versions did, according to CrowdTangle data. Fact-checking organizations, including FactC, from 30 countries collaborated through the International Fact-Checking Network atthePoynter Institutetodebunk the