Original title: “(VIDEO) HORRIBLE: If 5G kills birds, it will kill people, too.”
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Description of the disinformation
The portal Infomax published a text titled “(VIDEO) HORRIBLE: If 5G kills birds, it will kill people,too” which says hundreds of birds fell from the sky in The Hague, the Netherlands during a new 5G network experiment that tested the range, and it is questionable whether the new wireless technology will be harmful to the population.
The text refers to Johan Koole’s information, which he shared on his Facebook profile in November 2018.
Exposure of the disinformation
The portal wrote a text with a harassing and frightening title without exploring the information shared by Johan Koole, who is completely unknown to our public, and more importantly, he is not even an expert in the field of technology, telecommunications, or medicine.
The F2N2 team searched for this case in the Netherlands and came up with information that exposed the news of the death of birds. Namely, on the site for information checking, the news was first published by Erin at Health Nut News on November 5, 2018, and then taken over by Johan Koole, who manages several conspiracy websites against 5G. According to the local authorities, the bird’s death occured between October 18 and November 3, 2018, and do not rule out the possibility of the birds being poisoned. The causes of death will be further explored. The 5G mobile network is still largely under development. Different countries test different forms, including the Netherlands, but its broad acceptance is not expected to happen before 2020. The testing of the 5G network really happened in the Netherlands on June 28, 2018 and it was not followed by the death of birds.
From this we can conclude that even after 6 months from the death of the birds in The Hague, the portal Infomax created the news only based on the assumption that in no way constitutes proof.
This news is pseudoscience. The portal in the article tries to present certain opinions and attitudes as scientific discoveries. In it, there is misleading and manipulative interpretation of existing scientific researches, which we know are still in the stage of development and testing and there are no arguments that can prove the impact of this radiation on human health.
