On Twitter, almost 60 percent of false claims about coronavirus remain online - without a warning label Published on April 08, 2020 at 04:13AM by Craig Timberg, The Washington Post More than half of the misinformation about the coronavirus pandemic that has been debunked by fact-checkers remains on Twitter without any warning label, a record that puts it far behind rival social media platforms, according to a study released Tuesday night by Oxford University researchers. The study examined 225 pieces of content that independent fact-checkers had rated as false or misleading between January and March. The Oxford researchers found that 59 percent of it remained on Twitter, 27 percent remained on YouTube and 24 percent remained on Facebook. "It's surprising that so many of the things that have been proven to be false are still living on social media," said co-author Philip N. Howard, director of the Oxford Internet Institute, which conducted the study in concert with the