Iranian cyber police arrested 24 people accused of spreading rumors online and inciting panic about the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus currently sweeping through the country.
The Iranian police force formed a special unit to “combat rumor-mongers regarding the ‘spread of coronavirus in the country,’” said Vahid Majid, head of the Iranian police force’s cyber unit, according to the Times of Israel.
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