From the newsroom of the Washington Post.

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It's Thursday, February 13th.

Today, the spread of misinformation about coronavirus.

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So the misinformation around coronavirus has taken a lot of different forms.

Some of it has been images.

Some of it has just been inaccurate numbers, totals of how many people have died from the virus,

how many people are infected.

And then some of it is a little more detailed.

It's scientific literature that's pointing to inaccurate claims of how the virus spreads

or what can remedy the virus.

So it's kind of a mix of all sorts of different things happening right now.

I'm Kim Bellware. I am a national reporter on the General Assignment desk for the Post.

And where is this misinformation coming from?

Two researchers who I spoke to who track this kind of information

and how it spreads, Karl Bergstrom and Kevin West of the University of Washington,

they said that right now it's not clear.

We don't know if there's a specific foreign government that's behind them.

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