Photography Kon Karampelas, via UnsplashLife & CultureNewsLife & Culture / NewsTikTok is donating $10 million to combat coronavirusThe money will aid the World Health Organization’s efforts against the pandemicShareLink copied ✔️March 24, 2020March 24, 2020TextThom Waite After teaming up with the World Health Organization to provide advice and combat misinformation about coronavirus earlier this month, TikTok has announced it will donate $10 million to the agency. The money will go towards WHO’s Solidarity Response Fund, according to a statement posted March 23. This fund helps medical staff battling the pandemic in various ways, including: “sending essential supplies to front line health care workers, ensuring communities have access to the latest science-based information, and accelerating efforts to discover life-saving treatments or vaccines.” This comes alongside assistance from the social media platform for people that are particularly at risk or suffering from the knock-on effects of the virus, including a donation of $3 million towards the provision of meals for families affected by school closures. Users on the platform, meanwhile, have been coping with coronavirus and its impact by dispelling fake news, sharing health and hygiene tips, and offering a bit of much-needed humour. Other donations to aid medical staff and the vulnerable during the pandemic have come from musicians such as Rihanna and Kanye West, as well as names across fashion including Donatella Versace, and LVMH and Kering. Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MOREHow to date when... there’s a wage gapIs Substack still a space for writers and readers? Jean Paul GaultierJean Paul Gaultier’s iconic Le Male is the gift that keeps on giving‘It’s self-consciously cool’: Inside the chess club boomWoke is back – or is it?What can extinct, 40,000-year-old Neanderthals teach us about being human?Inside the UK’s accelerating crackdown on student protestsHow is AI changing sex work? Where have all the vegans gone?Could ‘Bricking’ my phone make me feel something?Love is not embarrassing ‘We’re trapped in hell’: Tea Hačić-Vlahović on her darkly comic new novel