By the time the urgent text message warning that the U.S. military was about to deploy soldiers across the country to enforce a nationwide quarantine landed on Pamela Chelin’s phone this week, it had already made its way to an untold number of people.
A friend had sent her the foreboding note, which claimed to be from someone who spoke to “a source that works for Homeland Security.” The friend, in turn, had received it from another friend, who he considered “reliable.”
“Who knows,” Chelin’s friend wrote, “but I believe them, given who sent it to me.”
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Source: Coronavirus hoax: Martial law emails are a big problem – Los Angeles Times