increased 70 percent last week as italians stayed indoors amid the country's lockdown according to telecom italia and while that could have been good news for social media firms it's also bad news the irish prime minister leo varadkar has warned against the spread of unverified information and so has germany's ministry of health it encourages people not to share fake news. meanwhile the u.k. government has announced more funds to help fight fake news about the coronavirus not just in britain but also in africa and asia where it is working with bloggers. however beyond us maybe on social media firms which are currently struggling with staffing problems they have had to send workers home amid the coveted 19 pandemic. that has been looking into this story for us thanks for joining us here in our studio fake news is spreading fast can social media platforms really keep up with this well i mean they've already had issues keeping up with fake news in the past and we've had you know stories in the past where they clearly showed that they couldn't keep up so of course this announcement is sort of just ma

increased 70 percent last week as italians stayed indoors amid the country's lockdown according to telecom italia and while that could have been good news for social media firms it's also bad news the irish prime minister leo varadkar has warned against the spread of unverified information and so has germany's ministry of health it encourages people not to share fake news. meanwhile the u.k. government has announced more funds to help fight fake news about the coronavirus not just in britain but also in africa and asia where it is working with bloggers. however beyond us maybe on social media firms which are currently struggling with staffing problems they have had to send workers home amid the coveted 19 pandemic. take a look at more of the latest coronavirus developments britain's than announced a financial aid for businesses affected by the pandemic amounting to more than 363000000000 euros of guarantees of germany's announced plans to double the number of intensive care places available so that patients suffering the effects of novel coronavirus can be treated iran has temporarily frayed 8500