{"id":104700,"date":"2020-04-03T13:02:17","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T20:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/5g-coronavirus-conspiracists-burning-phone-masts-amid-bizarre-claim-radiation-sparked-killer-bug"},"modified":"2020-04-03T13:02:17","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T20:02:17","slug":"5g-coronavirus-conspiracists-burning-phone-masts-amid-bizarre-claim-radiation-sparked-killer-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/5g-coronavirus-conspiracists-burning-phone-masts-amid-bizarre-claim-radiation-sparked-killer-bug","title":{"rendered":"5G coronavirus conspiracists BURNING phone masts amid bizarre claim \u2018radiation\u2019 sparked killer bug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/5g-coronavirus-conspiracists-burning-phone-masts-amid-bizarre-claim-radiation-sparked-killer-bug3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udd26\ud83c\udffb\u200d\u2642\ufe0f\ud83e\udd26\ud83c\udffb\u200d\u2642\ufe0f\ud83e\udd26\ud83c\udffb\u200d\u2642\ufe0f<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong>CONSPIRACY nuts are reportedly setting phone masts alight and targeting engineers after a bizarre claim 5G \u201cradiation\u201d caused the deadly coronavirus spread.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The theory originated last month after a video filmed at a US health conference <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/tech\/11311306\/bizarre-5g-coronavirus-conspiracy-theory-whatsapp\/\">claimed Africa was not as affected by the disease because it is \u201cnot a 5G region\u201d.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The myth was quickly debunked after the World Health Organisation confirmed there were thousands of Covid-19 cases in Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83e\udd26\ud83c\udffb\u200d\u2642\ufe0f\ud83e\udd26\ud83c\udffb\u200d\u2642\ufe0f\ud83e\udd26\ud83c\udffb\u200d\u2642\ufe0f CONSPIRACY nuts are reportedly setting phone masts alight and targeting engineers after a bizarre claim 5G \u201cradiation\u201d caused the deadly coronavirus spread. The theory originated last month after a video filmed at a US health conference claimed Africa was not as affected by the disease because it is \u201cnot a 5G region\u201d. The myth [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":518,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,418,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-internet","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/518"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}