Public health scares are a conspiracy theorist's dream, but audiences are flocking to trusted news sites.
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Twitter has also taken action on accounts which it says were aimed at "sowing discord".
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A man in his early 80s with underlying health conditions died in hospital in Watford, the NHS says.
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A man in his early 80s with underlying health conditions died in hospital in Watford, the NHS says.
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The misleading video, viewed almost six million times, was retweeted twice by President Trump.
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A fake hospital account is among those to have spread misleading information, the NHS says.
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It will work with social media firms and communications experts to respond to false information.
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