Before You Start
AN IMPORTANT REMINDER ABOUT FACT-CHECKING
Some of the information that you communicate with your beneficiaries may be about the disease itself, COVID-19. As a trusted member of your community, you may feel a responsibility to pass along information about preventing the disease.
Unfortunately, it can be very easy to accidentally pass along misleading or inaccurate information about COVID-19. Even careful professionals sometimes struggle to accurately share information about this disease, due to the large amount of misinformation and confusion.
This is why, before you send ANY information about the COVID-19 disease, you need to take additional steps to fact-check the information. In other words, follow the CDC’s rule “Be Right.”
Vet and verify all the information you plan to send, and be sure to point your beneficiaries towards trusted and reliable sources. Here are some websites for accurate COVID-19 information:
World Health Organization: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) information
World Health Organization: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) advice for the public: Myth busters
International Fact-Checking Network: Coronavirus facts alliance