“Conspiracy theorists burn 5G towers claiming link to virus” an article by Kelvin Chan, Beatrice Dupuy, and Arijeta Lajka addresses the social issue of misinformation and delusion. What they are talking about is of course the burning/destruction of the 5G cellular radio towers. The authors brought various information that details of how the misinformation of cell towers causing cancer and other health risks were brought to the world and changed ever so slightly with cell towers now able to spread virus instead on Facebook. This gets picked up by many delusional people and groups some including the anti-vaccine group. Then they started addressing this “false” problem to people and demanded to take the cell towers down. This quickly gets rejected which only made those delusional people take matters into their own hands by burning the cell towers down. The problem here is how can they know what cell towers are 5G? And so, many regular cell towers were burnt down which made communication by phone through countries and cities become useless, this made immediate calls for help unavailable. This however not only affected the nation but also the workers who are building the cell towers to get attacked.
The targetted audience is everyone including the conspiracy theorists, they hope to make the information known that 5G towers don’t spread viruses and this is backed by the top of the health organizations. The purpose is to inform the public about how and why the cell towers being destroyed and are causing problems everywhere. The genre is an informational news web site. The authors all very much want the public to know that there is no correlation between 5G towers and the virus outbreak. I know this because of how many times they have included information from knowledgable people that says there is no correlation between them and basically mentions how anyone that believes otherwise is wrong and possibly dumb.

Source:
https://apnews.com/4ac3679b6f39e8bd2561c1c8eeafd855