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NEW: Struggling for attention, Italy’s far-right and nationalist politicians — Matteo Salvini and Giorgia Meloni — are pushing conspiracy theories to millions of followers buzzfeed.com/albertonardell…
As the coronavirus pandemic has grown, politicians like Salvini and Meloni have struggled to get attention. As a result, their attacks on social media have become increasingly relentless — and the content they share extreme
Yesterday, both Meloni and Salvini shared a discredited and unsubstantiated conspiracy theory that has been widely debunked. But despite all the overwhelming evidence, the videos they shared racked up millions of views on Facebook and Twitter
To give you an idea of how far their posts travelled, I have had family members who rarely share political content, receive the videos on WhatsApp — and asked if the conspiracy theory was true
Opposition parties are going to oppose. Populists will be populists. But in the middle of a global pandemic, misinformation can spread panic and even cost lives.

Full story: buzzfeed.com/albertonardell…
For Italian speakers, you can find good pieces debunking Salvini and Meloni's conspiracy theory here:

ilpost.it/2020/03/25/tgr…

open.online/2020/03/25/il-…

valigiablu.it/tgr-leonardo-c…
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The New NHS Coronavirus App Won’t Work Without A Huge Increase In Testing And People To Do Contact Tracing buzzfeed.com/albertonardell…
Any contact tracing app requires that works with Bluetooth supplements, doesn't replace, human-led contact tracing. Such apps don't by themselves record location and environment data, for example. So you need people to gather and use the information in human-led interviews
At the beginning of the outbreak in Jan., the UK was focussed on contact tracing. Up until mid-March PHE had traced some 3,500 people in total.

As context, Singapore, which has deployed a similar app, has the capacity to trace up to 4,000 contacts each day.
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I don't think the UK-France comparison in this chart published by the UK government today is quite right
According do the underlying data published by the government (here gov.uk/government/pub…), the UK figure is 11,329, which according to the Dept. of Health is number of deaths among those hospitalised ()
The figure for France in the chart is 14,393. The chart does say that due to reporting lags comparisons may not be like for like. However, the French figure includes both hospital deaths and deaths in care homes. So it's not just a reporting lag, but something else
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Last night we published a story on how a breakdown in communications between two government agencies led to the UK missing out on thousands of coronavirus tests.

It helps to understand some of the challenges being now faced trying to ramp up capacity buzzfeed.com/richholmes/uk-…
Public Health England first contacted the government’s animal health agency at the end of January to ask about potential volunteers to help with testing in the event of a possible escalation in the coronavirus outbreak, emails seen by @BuzzFeedNews show
PHE didn't follow up until March. During the course of several communications last month, the requests changed several times. For example, there were discussions about using the animal health agency's main lab to test, but technical difficulties were later cited
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