Word of the Day (coronawashing)-03DEC20

Word of the Day (coronawashing)-03DEC20

Today’s “Word of the Day” is coronawashing and it is a noun and its meaning is “the misleading claim/act of companies/organisations that their products and services can prevent/treat/cure coronavirus without providing enough evidence”.

Example Sentence: We have become used to sportswashing, greenwashing, pinkwashing and even wokewashing. We are now in the first wave of coronawashing, in which corporations trip over themselves to clap for key workers, before packaging the footage up into moving nuggets of shareable content and promoting them on several social media platforms.

This word is present in The Guardian article Businesses making eco-friendly claims to be vetted by watchdog and click here to read it.

Courtesy: The Guardian

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