False information and fake news have helped the Ebola virus in Eastern DR Congo to spread quickly. Young journalists of the fact checking network Congo Check fight the rumors and false information circulating on Social Media and the internet, because they know: fake news can kill.

Read my article for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) in German (print and online): https://www.nzz.ch/international/ebola-epidemie-im-kongo-wenn-fake-news-toeten-ld.1486682