{"id":23583,"date":"2020-04-12T13:35:02","date_gmt":"2020-04-12T08:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/uk-says-5g-coronavirus-conspiracy-theory-is-dangerous-fake-nonsense\/"},"modified":"2020-04-12T13:35:02","modified_gmt":"2020-04-12T08:05:02","slug":"uk-says-5g-coronavirus-conspiracy-theory-is-dangerous-fake-nonsense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=23583","title":{"rendered":"UK says 5G coronavirus conspiracy theory is \u2018dangerous fake nonsense\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/english.alarabiya.net\/en\/variety\/2020\/04\/04\/UK-says-5G-coronavirus-conspiracy-theory-is-dangerous-fake-nonsense-.html\">Reuters<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A conspiracy theory that links 5G mobile telecommunications masts to the spread of the novel coronavirus is dangerous fake news and completely false, Britain said on Saturday after masts in several parts of the country were torched.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When asked by a reporter about the so called \u201ctheory\u201d that 5G telecommunications masts could play a role in the spread of the disease, British Cabinet Officer Minister Michael Gove said: \u201cThat is just nonsense, dangerous nonsense as well.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NHS England\u2019s national medical director, Stephen Powis, said the 5G conspiracy idea was fake news with no scientific backing that risked damaging the emergency response to the outbreak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe 5G story is complete and utter rubbish, it&#8217;s nonsense, it&#8217;s the worst kind of fake news,\u201d Powis said. \u201cThe reality is that the mobile phone networks are absolutely critical to all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThose are also the phone networks that are used by our emergency services and our health workers and I&#8217;m absolutely outraged, absolutely disgusted that people would be taking action against the very infrastructure that we need to respond to this health emergency,\u201d Powis said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mobile phone masts have been vandalized in Birmingham in central England and Merseyside in northern England in recent days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A lobby group for the United Kingdom&#8217;s mobile operators &#8211; including EE, O2, Vodafone and Three &#8211; said it was aware of the false rumurs linking 5G to the outbreak, and threats to infrastructure and staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe theories that are being spread about 5G on social media are baseless and are not grounded in accepted scientific theory,\u201d UK Mobile said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSome people are also abusing our key workers and making threats to damage infrastructure under the pretense of claims about 5G.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters A conspiracy theory that links 5G mobile telecommunications masts to the spread of the novel coronavirus is dangerous fake news and completely false, Britain said on Saturday after masts in several parts of the country were torched. When asked by a reporter about the so called \u201ctheory\u201d that 5G telecommunications masts could play a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23049,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}