Fact-checkers are turning to WhatsApp to help ensure people are given reliable information on COVID-19. Poynter Institute's International Fact-Checkers Network (IFCN) said it will launch a bot on the popular messaging service WhatsApp that allows users to query terms like'masks' or'coronavirus symptoms.' The bot is designed to pull from the'translated work of more than 80 fact-checking organizations worldwide' and can use that information to determine whether content has been rated as false by fact-checkers. The IFCN's chatbot will pull from a database that has identified more than 4,000 coronavirus hoaxes according to the organization Specifically, a bot will pull from the IFCN's CoronaVirusFacts database which, with the help of fact-checkers from 74 countries around the world, has identified more than 4,000 coronavirus hoaxes according to the organization. The inclusion of a reputable fact-checking bot on WhatsApp makes senes given the platform's popularity.