Online platform to help check the spread of scientific rumors

AN OFFICIAL ONLINE PLATFORM LAUNCHED in Beijing on Saturday will help dispel scientific rumors in the era of the internet, writes China Daily writer Wang Yiqing:

Media reports have described the platform, jointly built by several central government departments including the National Health Commission, Ministry of Emergency Management, and the China Association for Science and Technology, as the "national team" to refute rumors about science.

The purpose of the platform is to improve the flow of scientific information through advanced information and communication technology in order to dispel rumors about science and strengthen people's scientific knowledge. After major internet platforms, using artificial intelligence, identify scientific rumors, the platform would monitor them and issue statements to scotch those rumors.