Conspiracy theories have driven people to burn cellular equipment. Telecom workers have had to bear the brunt of this.
Over the past four months, telecom engineers across the UK have been subjected to verbal and physical abuse, or targeted online harassment and doxxing. The US Department of Homeland Security issued a warning to carriers about potential threat to wireless equipment here. All because some people are buying into the conspiracy theory that 5G is to blame for the coronavirus pandemic, something that popped up just as the disease spread beyond China in January.
5G has been a target of conspiracy theorists for as long as it’s been around, just as with 4G and 3G before it. But what’s different this time around is that people started linking it in various ways to COVID-19, saying either that the technology weakens immune systems, or even that it’s responsible for directly transmitting the virus.
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