總刷社交媒體容易相信"新冠假消息"

People who rely on social media for information about coronavirus are More likely to believe conspiracy theories and go outside with symptoms or breach lockdown rules, a new study revealed.
一項最新研究顯示，把社交媒體作爲新冠肺炎疫情主要信息來源的人更容易相信陰謀論、在已出現感染症狀的情況下外出，或違反封鎖規定。

Research published by the Psychological Medicine journal found that 60 percent of people who believe that Covid-19 was directly linked to the world's growing 5G network used YouTube as their primary source of news.
研究發現，認爲新冠肺炎與全球不斷增加的5G網絡直接相關的人中，有60%將YouTube作爲主要新聞來源。該研究報告發表在《心理醫學》雜誌上。

And those who preferred Facebook to get their information 54 percent believed the 5G conspiracy theory compared to 20 percent who did not and 26 percent who were not sure.
而喜歡在臉書上獲取信息的人中，54%的人相信5G陰謀論，20%的人不相信，26%的人不確定。

The 5G link to coronavirus has been widely debunked by Governments and tech experts. Yet people have been damaging masts or even setting fire to them while phone and broadband engineers have been harrassed and threatened leading to public information campaigns in some countries.
多國政府和技術專家都反駁了5G與新冠病毒有關這一謠言。然而，在一些國家，人們一直在破壞甚至縱火焚燒5G基站，電話和寬帶工程師受到騷擾和威脅也導致了公共信息宣傳活動的舉行。

The new study also found:
新的研究還發現：

58% of those who have gone outside with Covid-19 symptoms use YouTube as a main information source, compared with 16% of those who haven't;
在有新冠肺炎症狀但仍外出的人中，有58%將YouTube作爲主要信息來源，而在其他人中，這一比例爲16%；

56% of people who believe there's no hard evidence Covid-19 exists use Facebook as a key information source, almost three times higher than the proportion of non-believers who do (20%)
認爲沒有確鑿證據證明新冠肺炎存在的人中，有56%將臉書作爲主要信息來源，這一比例幾乎是不相信這種觀點的人的三倍（20%）。

28% of those who believe that death figures have been deliberately exaggerated by the authorities have broken lockdown rules. 18% of believers have gone to work or outside with coronavirus symptoms, almost four times more than the 5% of non-believers.
那些認爲死亡數字被政府故意誇大的人中，有28%的人違反了封鎖規定；持這種觀點的人中有18%曾在出現新冠肺炎症狀後去工作或外出，幾乎是不相信這一觀點的人的4倍（5%）。

More than one in 20 (8%) think the symptoms that most individuals blame on Covid-19 appear to be connected to 5G network radiation - a false conspiracy that is thought to have motivated a number of mobile mast attacks across the country during lockdown.
超過二十分之一（8%）的人認爲，大多數人所認爲的新冠肺炎症狀似乎與5G網絡輻射有關——這是一個錯誤的陰謀論，這也使得封鎖期間在英國各地發生了多次破壞移動基站事件。

Of those who believe this theory, 60% said they get their information from YouTube, compared with 14% who think that it is false.
在相信這一陰謀論的人中，60%的人說他們從YouTube上獲取信息，相比之下在不相信這一陰謀論的人中，只有14%的人從YouTube上獲取信息。

Among those who believe there is no hard evidence that the virus exists, 56% use Facebook as their key information source, almost three times higher than the proportion of people who do not believe such a thing (20%).
在那些認爲沒有確鑿證據表明病毒存在的人中，56%的人將臉書作爲主要信息來源，幾乎是不相信這一觀點的人的三倍（20%）。

The findings, based on surveys of 2,254 UK residents aged between 16 and 75 carried out by King's College London and Ipsos Mori, also suggest a link between those who have broken lockdown rules and use social media for details about coronavirus as well.
上述調查結果來源於倫敦國王學院和伊普索斯莫里民意調查機構對年齡在16歲至75歲之間的2254名英國居民進行的調查，結果還表明，那些違反封鎖規定的人往往也使用社交媒體瞭解新冠疫情消息。

Three in 10 people who wrongly believe that 5G is causing Covid-19 symptoms have gone outside despite suspecting they may have the virus, compared with just 4% among those who reject this belief.
錯誤地認爲5G會導致新冠肺炎症狀的人中，有30%的人曾在懷疑自己可能感染了病毒後外出，而在不相信這種觀點的人中，這一比例僅爲4%。

'Our findings suggest that social media use is linked both to false beliefs about Covid-19 and to failure to follow the clear-cut rules of the lockdown,' said Dr Daniel Allington, senior lecturer in social and cultural artificial intelligence at King's College London.
倫敦國王學院社會與文化人工智能高級講師丹尼爾·阿林頓博士說：“我們的研究結果表明，社交媒體的使用既與人們對新冠肺炎的錯誤認識有關，也與不遵守明確的封鎖規定有關。”

'This is not surprising, given that so much of the information on social media is misleading or downright wrong.
“這並不奇怪，因爲社交媒體上的很多信息都是誤導性的，或者是完全錯誤的。”

'Now that some of the lockdown rules are being relaxed, people will have to make more and more of their own decisions about what is safe or unsafe - which means that access to good-quality information about Covid-19 will be more important than ever.
“現在一些封鎖規定正在放鬆，人們就得自己決定什麼是安全的，什麼是不安全的——這意味着獲得關於新冠肺炎的高質量信息將比以往任何時候都更加重要。”