We may have been in lockdown due to the coronavirus for the past two months, but social media has been in overdrive. It’s no exaggeration to say that there’s never been a time when so many people around the world are actively posting to various digital platforms. This week Professor Axel Bruns from the Digital Media Research Centre at Queensland University of Technology explains the ways that social media links with "panic spirals", conspiracy theories, and creates the conditions for another global contagion: what's been called "the info-demic".