1. I admit that it was mildly amusing when family members, who don’t understand where to get verified news, fell for wacko conspiracies. Like the idea 9/11 was an inside job or that the moon landing was fake. We’re now at a point where misinformation may cost ppl their lives.
2. I spent an hour speaking to a dear friend who was getting her Coronavirus updates from Facebook, including a doctor whose YouTube intervention I caught a snippet of. He was stressing that 2/3rds of people with the virus who are in hospitals near 5G towers are dying.
3. This would have been funny a year or even a month ago. It’s not anymore. I’m worried about her. She’s in her late 60s. People always ask me, where I can get real, verified news and I usually punt the question for the simple reason that I don’t want to sound self serving.
4. In light of what’s happening, I’m going to be crystal clear: Where can you get solid, factual, real-time news? From the New York Times. Our Coronavirus feed is here and the stories are free: nytimes.com/news-event/cor…
5. Don’t like the New York Times? You can also get real factual news from the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, and on TV from NBC, ABC, CBS and CNN.
6. Also excellent are Pro Publica, the New Yorker, the Atlantic. Where should you *not* go for news right now? Facebook, unless you look carefully at the link to each story and make sure it comes from a credible news source. Why do I say this?
7. It’s not that these news organizations don’t get things wrong. They do. But believe me when I say that there’s a rigorous correction process. I had to append a correction to a story about the Paris attacks because I called it “Voltaire Boulevard” instead of “Voltaire Street.” 
8. Each of the news organizations I mentioned has layers of editors. At the New York Times, I work under some of the smartest people I’ve ever met, who push back - hard. I don’t get to publish whatever I want. There’s a rigorous source-vetting and fact-vetting process.
9. Same for the other news organizations I mentioned, which by the way is not a complete list. Also excellent: The Associated Press, Reuters, Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal. Please don’t entrust your health to some dude speaking on YouTube.
10. Also excellent: NPR, BBC, CBC (Canadian Broadcasting) and pretty much any newspaper in America that has been around for 100 or more years, ie Boston Globe. You don’t get that kind of longevity without rigorous standards.
