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Social media company responsibilities during COVID-19 crisis in the UK in 2020
In a survey carried out in March 2020, ** percent of respondents from the UK said they believed that social media companies should provide fact-checked content to help people cope with the coronavirus outbreak. Other important roles for social media, according to respondents were screening "fake news", and helping communities to connect with each other.
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