Dr. Mike Ryan, Head of the WHO's Health Emergency Program, at a WHO briefing on the coronavirus earlier this month said "We need a vaccine against misinformation." China is the world's most populous country has the largest market of Internet users globally: 21% of the world's 3.8 billion Internet users, so fake news can spread quickly online. A 2018 study from Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that "false news spreads more rapidly on the social network Twitter than real news does."

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