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In the video, a man who says he has been employed to erect 5G masts describes how he opened some of the equipment which was due to be put into a mast and found the letters COV 19. The video is the latest in a series of claims falsely linking coronavirus and 5G. The claim in this case is a hoax: the circuit board shown in the video is from an old set-top TV box. It has nothing to do with 5G and it never had the letters COV 19 inscribed on it when it was distributed to customers. The claim In the 55-second video, a man wearing a hard hat, a mask and high-viz clothing is standing on a residential street in front of a large tower. His accent is difficult to place at times, but seems to be from northern England. Given that, and the right-hand drive cars and the architecture of the street, it is likely that the video was taken in England. He says that he has been “working erecting 5G masts on towers like the one behind me for the past few weeks” and has opened some of the equipment he has been given, despite being asked not to. He shows a circuit board to the camera which has the letters COV 19 inscribed in a corner on a silver component. “I’m not a fucking conspiracy theorist,” he says. “Obviously I’ve read all that stuff online about coronavirus and Covid-19, but why the fuck are they putting circuitry like that in towers like that.” The man’s claim is false. The circuit board comes from an old Virgin Media TV box which would have been distributed from around 2011 and has been discontinued for a few years. The circuit board in question also never had the letters COV 19 on it, suggesting that they were added at a later date. A photograph below shows a photo of one of the circuit boards. The letters COV 19 are not shown on them. Advertisement “That is a board from a very old set top TV box and which never featured any component parts inscribed/stamped/printed or otherwise with COV 19,” a spokesperson for Virgin Media told TheJournal.ie. “It has absolutely no relation with any mobile network infrastructure, including that used for 5G.” Virgin Media said that circuit board looked like a Cisco 4585 HD card which they began distributing to customers around 2011. ![\\"254463ed-b323-464d-ad87-bf71de258354\\"](\\" A photo of a board showing no Cov 19 marking Virgin Media press office Virgin Media press office The video has been shared around the world on social media, including in Australia and the US as well as Ireland. There have been a large number of conspiracy theories connecting 5G with the coronavirus pandemic in recent months. The theories, which generally either suggest that Covid-19 can be transmitted by 5G or that 5G makes people more susceptible to catching it, have no basis in truth but have been widely shared on social media. **** There is a lot of false news and scaremongering being spread in Ireland at the moment about coronavirus. Here are some practical ways for you to assess whether the messages that you’re seeing – especially on WhatsApp – are true or not. STOP, THINK AND CHECK Look at where it’s coming from. Is it someone you know? Do they have a source for the information (e.g. the HSE website) or are they just saying that the information comes from someone they know? A lot of the false news being spread right now is from people claiming that messages from ‘a friend’ of theirs. Have a look yourself – do a quick Google search and see if the information is being reported elsewhere. Secondly, get the whole story, not just a headline. A lot of these messages have got vague information (“all the doctors at this hospital are panicking”) and don’t mention specific details. This is often – but not always a sign – that it may not be accurate. Finally, see how you feel after reading it. A lot of these false messages are designed to make people feel panicked. They’re deliberately manipulating your feelings to make you more likely to share it. If you feel panicked after reading something, check it out and see if it really is true. Have you gotten a message on WhatsApp or Facebook or Twitter about coronavirus that you’re not sure about and want us to check it out? Message or mail us and we’ll look into debunking it. WhatsApp: 085 221 4696 or Email: answers@thejournal.ie TheJournal.ie’s FactCheck is a signatory to the International Fact-Checking Network’s Code of Principles. You can read it here. For information on how FactCheck works, what the verdicts mean, and how you can take part, check out our Reader’s Guide here. 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Mute Kieran Stafford Favourite Kieran Stafford Report Jun 5th 2020, 5:59 PM Who dreams this stuff up? 252 ![](\\" DJ François 8y Install the app to use these features. Mute DJ François Favourite DJ François Report Jun 5th 2020, 6:01 PM @Kieran Stafford: Muppets, Qidiots and assorted Gemmaroids 195 ![](\\" Stephen Deegan 9y Install the app to use these features. Mute Stephen Deegan Favourite Stephen Deegan Report Jun 5th 2020, 6:01 PM @Kieran Stafford: I know. It amazes me that things like this have to be debunked in the first place! 121 See 5 more replies ▾ ![](\\" SteoG 12y Install the app to use these features. Mute SteoG Favourite SteoG Report Jun 5th 2020, 6:50 PM @Kieran Stafford: Jimcorr 37 ![](\\" Quiet Goer 8y Install the app to use these features. Mute Quiet Goer Favourite Quiet Goer Report Jun 5th 2020, 7:04 PM @Kieran Stafford: Some bored fecker with a CNC milling machine 15 ![](\\" biggybald 5y Install the app to use these features. Mute biggybald Favourite biggybald Report Jun 5th 2020, 7:30 PM @Kieran Stafford: The same type of crazy people who made up the God stories. Ohh and that was a good one. 14 ![](\\" Seamus Kelly 11y Install the app to use these features. Mute Seamus Kelly Favourite Seamus Kelly Report Jun 5th 2020, 7:59 PM @Kieran Stafford: People who are not so easily fooled. 3 ![](\\" Tommy Roche 10y Install the app to use these features. Mute Tommy Roche Favourite Tommy Roche Report Jun 5th 2020, 8:26 PM @Seamus Kelly: Your reply makes no sense, unsurprisingly. 15 ![](\\" Joe Soap 7y Install the app to use these features. Mute Joe Soap Favourite Joe Soap Report Jun 5th 2020, 6:08 PM I heard covid-19 was set up by the pioneer association of Ireland to get us all outta the pub. So it must definitely be true! Sure ye couldn’t make that up. 106 ![](\\" Mark O\'Donohoe 13y Install the app to use these features. Mute Mark O\'Donohoe Favourite Mark O\'Donohoe Report Jun 5th 2020, 7:25 PM @Joe Soap: did you not hear, forget about toilet paper shortage, *serious shortage of wine, in fact some store are on their final stock levels…. . . . . *waits for rumour to go viral and a rush on wine… 15 ![](\\" James Walsh 12y Install the app to use these features. Mute James Walsh Favourite James Walsh Report Jun 6th 2020, 12:29 AM @Mark O’Donohoe: Surely the Orange Order and Opus Dei were in on it too? 4 ![](\\" Jurga Moylan 10y Install the app to use these features. Mute Jurga Moylan Favourite Jurga Moylan Report Jun 5th 2020, 6:02 PM Conspiracy theorist are not skeptical! They are agrresively gullible. Some of the stuff they spout and actually believe about 5G and a connection to covid 19 is just bonkers. 132 ![](\\" Goldie Locks 12y Install the app to use these features. Mute Goldie Locks Favourite Goldie Locks Report Jun 5th 2020, 6:30 PM @Jurga Moylan: aggressively gullible… That’s a good way to describe them! 61 ![](\\" B Collins 13y Install the app to use these features. Mute B Collins Favourite B Collins Report Jun 6th 2020, 3:09 AM @Jurga Moylan: “aggressively gullible” is THE best phrase I’ve ever heard to describe conspiracy theorists. Brava. 6 See 1 more reply ▾ ![](\\" Self Employed Anarchist 4y Install the app to use these features. Mute Self Employed Anarchist Favourite Self Employed Anarchist Report Jun 6th 2020, 9:31 AM @Jurga Moylan: “aggressively gullible” – what a wonderful phrase !! – I am genuinely in awe . Much better than my attempt- “ complete F##kheads “ 1 ![](\\" Sean Fahey 4y Install the app to use these features. Mute Sean Fahey Favourite Sean Fahey Report Jun 5th 2020, 6:18 PM Imagine going to all of that trouble to execute this dastardly plan and almost getting away with it, except you printed the name of the virus on the hardware for literally no reason. Must have hired the same guy who designed the Death Star. 82 ![](\\" Craic_a_tower 5y Install the app to use these features. Mute Craic_a_tower Favourite Craic_a_tower Report Jun 5th 2020, 6:22 PM @Sean Fahey: you haven’t seen all the movies I take it? 7 ![](\\" andyearley 9y Install the app to use these features. Mute andyearley Favourite andyearley Report Jun 5th 2020, 11:41 PM @Sean Fahey: bravo ! 2 See 1 more reply ▾ ![](\\" B Collins 13y Install the app to use these features. Mute B Collins Favourite B Collins Report Jun 6th 2020, 3:11 AM @Sean Fahey: oh my, that comment was entertaining. 2 ![](\\" Ciaran Farrelly 11y Install the app to use these features. Mute Ciaran Farrelly Favourite Ciaran Farrelly Report Jun 5th 2020, 6:02 PM People like this should be identified and charged for spreading panic. D1ckhe4d. 76 ![](\\" The Shape 10y Install the app to use these features. Mute The Shape Favourite The Shape Report Jun 5th 2020, 6:03 PM Sure, debunked, that’s what our lizard overlords want us to believe… 42 ![](\\" Sinead Conneely 10y Install the app to use these features. Mute Sinead Conneely Favourite Sinead Conneely Report Jun 5th 2020, 6:51 PM I’ve never seen any of the “deunked” articals anywhere else except on the Journal.. do ye make them up ??? 21 ![](\\" Logan Shepherd 5y Install the app to use these features. Mute Logan Shepherd Favourite Logan Shepherd Report Jun 5th 2020, 7:02 PM @Sinead Conneely: I was begining to wonder the same thing. I’ve never seen any of them, but then I don’t live in social media land. 21 ![](\\" Owen Ball 12y Install the app to use these features. Mute Owen Ball Favourite Owen Ball Report Jun 5th 2020, 8:36 PM @Logan Shepherd: look at Gemma O ‘Dohertys Twitter feed for ten minutes. More nutbag conspiracy theories than you could shake a stick at. 18 See 1 more reply ▾ ![](\\" Logan Shepherd 5y Install the app to use these features. Mute Logan Shepherd Favourite Logan Shepherd Report Jun 5th 2020, 10:00 PM @Owen Ball: Nah .. you’re grand thanks :-) 5 ![](\\" Fearghal 10y Install the app to use these features. Mute Fearghal Favourite Fearghal Report Jun 5th 2020, 6:34 PM Fruit-to the-cakes! 14 ![](\\" Big Red 13y Install the app to use these features. Mute Big Red Favourite Big Red Report Jun 5th 2020, 8:29 PM Thanks for that Gemma. Now just pay your costs bill. 14 ![](\\" Tom Harpur Photography 11y Install the app to use these features. Mute Tom Harpur Photography Favourite Tom Harpur Photography Report Jun 5th 2020, 6:42 PM Glad I got the hell off Facebook 7 weeks ago not to be seeing rubbish like this. Mad thing is the video was probably posted using 5g either through mobile network or mobile broadband provider. 26 ![](\\" Rossa Crowe 13y Install the app to use these features. Mute Rossa Crowe Favourite Rossa Crowe Report Jun 5th 2020, 7:26 PM It amazes me that they fact check this which is obviously ridiculous and none of the other “copy and paste” reports they post – but hey, the comments are the real gold on the auld Journal. 11 ![](\\" You can call me anything but 12y Install the app to use these features. Mute You can call me anything but Favourite You can call me anything but Report Jun 5th 2020, 6:31 PM Nobody ever believed this story. Another pathetic attempt by the journal. 17 ![](\\" Dave O\'Keeffe 11y Install the app to use these features. Mute Dave O\'Keeffe Favourite Dave O\'Keeffe Report Jun 5th 2020, 6:42 PM @You can call me anything but: Did you figure out where you pulled those CSO numbers from yet? It’s in your interest for people to stop debunking things so your opinion isn’t really relevant on the matter. 23 ![](\\" The Bloody Nine 10y Install the app to use these features. Mute The Bloody Nine Favourite The Bloody Nine Report Jun 5th 2020, 7:07 PM @You can call me anything but: have a look at some of the ‘stop 5g’ groups on Facebook, if they’re still up and running. Thousands of idiots believe this rubbish, and worse. 27 See 2 more replies ▾ ![](\\" Dave O\'Keeffe 11y Install the app to use these features. Mute Dave O\'Keeffe Favourite Dave O\'Keeffe Report Jun 5th 2020, 8:56 PM @The Bloody Nine: if you can’t tell from the Gates thing, he’s one of them 5 ![](\\" The Bloody Nine 10y Install the app to use these features. Mute The Bloody Nine Favourite The Bloody Nine Report Jun 5th 2020, 10:22 PM @Dave O’Keeffe: ffs… I didn’t even see that comment before I posted. 2 ![](\\" SteveBuzzard 5y Install the app to use these features. Mute SteveBuzzard Favourite SteveBuzzard Report Jun 6th 2020, 1:54 PM Legitimate concerns about 5G have been in circulation long before C-19. Anybody with a thinking rational brain should be aware of the genuine concerns out there, and do their own research. 6 ![](\\" Ray Carney 11y Install the app to use these features. Mute Ray Carney Favourite Ray Carney Report Jun 5th 2020, 7:26 PM Why are The Journal wasting their time and ours ‘debunking’ this nonsense? 7 ![](\\" BmcG 6y Install the app to use these features. Mute BmcG Favourite BmcG Report Jun 5th 2020, 7:35 PM @Ray Carney: why r the journal weh weh stop whining you dweeb 17 ![](\\" BmcG 6y Install the app to use these features. Mute BmcG Favourite BmcG Report Jun 5th 2020, 7:34 PM Conspiracy theorists are alright 2 ![](\\" Seamus Kelly 11y Install the app to use these features. Mute Seamus Kelly Favourite Seamus Kelly Report Jun 5th 2020, 8:08 PM “Stop Think and Check. Is it someone you Know”. I don’t know the person who took the photo of the board without “Covid 19″ written on it, so I don’t believe its genuine. 2 ![](\\" Cóilín MacEochaidh 5y Install the app to use these features. Mute Cóilín MacEochaidh Favourite Cóilín MacEochaidh Report Jun 6th 2020, 1:15 AM I noticed a well known “journalist” although I like to refer to her as a g**sh**e shared this a few weeks ago to her thousands of gullible followers mainly based in America. She calls herself an award winning investigative journalist any chance she gets but has no problem sharing unverified videos and other rubbish without any shred of evidence. I’ll just wait for her followers to see this and call be a “leftie loon” or a “Soros shill” or a “corrupt paedophile” because that’s the standard response when you call them out on their bulls***. 5 ![](\\" Mary Downes Montcho 11y Install the app to use these features. Mute Mary Downes Montcho Favourite Mary Downes Montcho Report Jun 6th 2020, 6:08 AM I’m seriously worried for the future of humanity- intelligent life is disappearing -sometimes I’m glad I’m one my way out and not in 2 ![](\\" Michael O\'Neill 12y Install the app to use these features. 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