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1.2 million subscribers: How Reddit's coronavirus community became a destination

Olivia Solon April Glaser

March 18, 2020 |

NBC News |

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Response Location: United States

A group of researchers of infectious diseases, virologists, computer scientists, doctors, and nurses have taken to moderating a community coronavirus message board on Reddit to help spread awareness and decrease information around the pandemic. From fact-checking to alerting of breaking news, these volunteers are helping to more efficiently get valid information to those in the online community, while incentivizing the sharing of valuable information via the platform's system of upvotes.

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