In a commentary, SMU Professorial Research Fellow and Director of the Centre for AI and Data Governance (CAIDG) Mark Findlay shared that the CAIDG has embarked on a programme of research designed to confront concerns about the pandemic and its control. The CAIDG came across many myths while developing its work to study how AI-assisted technologies and mass data sharing have impacted community confidence and health safety, and dispelled the myths surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic.