'Burning bodies? Mass graves? Ecuador battles fake news amid the coronavirus pandemic-

'Burning bodies? Mass graves? Ecuador battles fake news amid the coronavirus pandemic-

Apr 9, 20/20 ☣️ Miami Herald (TNS)

'Burning bodies? Mass graves? Ecuador battles fake news amid the coronavirus pandemic-

 

 "Last week, jarring images raced around the globe that seemed to show desperate people in Ecuador burning bodies on the street. According to the social media posts, the coronavirus had overwhelmed the Lenín Moreno administration and pushed the country — long known for political instability — to the brink.

But when police went to the sites where the videos were filmed, the truth was a bit more nuanced. In one case, a family was burning tires to protest the government’s delay in recovering the body of a relative. In another case, people were burning a couch on which someone with the contagious virus had been sleeping.

“The idea that people were burning bodies on the streets — those images were shared around the world, television stations re-posted them, even presidents of countries fell for them,” said Ecuador’s Communication Secretary Gabriel Arroba.

And they weren’t true.

 

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