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Coronavirus: 'I faked having Covid-19 on Facebook and got arrested'Coronavirus: 'I faked having Covid-19 on Facebook and got arrested'By Joe TidyCyber-security reporter, BBC World Service 24 April 2020 Related TopicsCoronavirus pandemic Image copyrightTyler County Sheriff's Office/ GettyImage captionMr Brandin's picture released by policeMichael Lane Brandin knew his Facebook post would cause a stir.What he didn't realise was that he'd be arrested, lose his job and face a trial that could see him behind bars.It was an otherwise dull afternoon in March and the debate about how to cope with the potential outbreak of Covid-19 was all over his timeline.So he decided to, in his words, "do a social experiment".Mr Brandin posted that he'd tested positive for coronavirus. And then he added that doctors had told him that the virus was now airborne. That would mean it had suddenly become far easier to catch it than by simply being too close to an infect…