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Facebook virus lies ‘biggest challenge’ to PNG vaccine drive: minister
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Thursday called disinformation spread on Facebook the “biggest challenge” to
efforts to curb the rampant spread of Covid-19 in the poor Pacific nation.
Jelta Wong said “dangerous” posts and anti-vax conspiracy theories were
hampering the drive to get people to seek treatment and testing for the
disease as infection numbers soar.
“When Facebook hit Papua New Guinea everybody became an expert,” Wong told
an online event organised by Sydney’s Lowy Institute think tank.
“Everybody had a PhD, even sitting under a coconut tree they became a
PhD,” he said in describing the spread of faulty information about

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