Whether it's a post on your uncle's account or an image your friend forwarded, fake coronavirus stories seem to be everywhere.
To help, BBC teams are verifying and fact-checking the latest and most widely-seen examples of fake and misleading information.
A fake Bill Gates message
A long message attributed to Bill Gates, the Microsoft billionaire, encouraging people to reflect positively on their lives during the coronavirus outbreak has been shared thousands of times in multiple countries. It made it on to verified accounts, national newspaper websites and the Instagram account of Naomi Campbell, the supermodel.
But we know that Bill Gates had nothing to do with it.
Someone has, however, approached the BBC claiming to be the original poster. Mohammed Ali from London said he published the message on Facebook on 16 March, but hadn't attributed it to Mr Gates.
We can't be sure that he is poster number one, but we haven't found an earlier version of it on public Facebook accounts. As for how it morphed into a message from Bill Gates, that's unclear.
According to social media analysis tool Crowdtangle, the earliest time we find it attributed to Mr Gates is on 22 March.
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