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BMJ Report Recommends “Behavioral Interventions” To “Reduce Vaccine Hesitancy Driven by Misinformation on Social Media”
These interventions include boosting the visibility of “reliable health information” and social media companies becoming “more proactive in dealing with the proliferation of misinformation on their sites.”
Tedros Tells the World Economic Forum the WHO Pandemic Treaty Is Needed To Combat “Disease X”
The treaty outlines proposals for increased surveillance, vaccine passports, and monitoring “misinformation.”
YouTube Boasts About Elevating “Quality” Content, Collaborating With the WHO, and Suppressing “Misinformation”
Google’s algorithmic manipulation.
WHO Director General Complains About Online “Conspiracy Theories” About WHO Pandemic Treaty
It’s not a power grab, Tedros says.
WHO Publishes Latest Draft of Pandemic Treaty To Combat “Misinformation”
Treating information like a virus.
WHO Director-General Tedros Complains of Slow Progress on Pandemic Treaty, Giving the WHO Powers to Target “Misinformation” and “Infodemics”
The power-grab can’t come fast enough for the WHO.
WHO Director-General Complains “The Spread of Misinformation” Undermines “Faith in Our Institutions”
It’s never the fault of the institutions in the eyes of those that run the institutions.
German Health Minister Complains About “Misinformation Pandemic,” Social Media Scrutiny Of Health Officials
Not happy that the public is able to question the decisions of health officials on social media.
UN Urges Governments and Platforms To Implement Its Guidelines For Censoring “Misinformation,” and “Hate”
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres last week addressed a high-level meeting in New York City to detail the ideas around preparing for “the next pandemic.” In his remarks – although he had the good sense to first address issues related to actual diseases – Guterres also prominently urges gove
Brazil’s UN Representative: “Dissemination of False Information Regarding Health Matters Constitutes…a Possible Criminal Offense”
There was a time when Brazil was considered to have had some of the finest diplomats serving their country and the UN as representatives of the world organization, around the world. Their mission was to mediate in real crises and armed conflicts. Certainly – it was not to serve any one group of
WHO Treaty Negotiators Call For Governments and Big Tech To Tackle “Infodemics,” and “Misinformation”
The idea of a pandemic was just recently seared into everybody’s minds (rightly so, given the level of disruption caused by the reaction to Covid at personal/business/national level) – and now, building on that state of fear – we have a neologism to contend with. “Infodemic.” It’s when saying s
WHO Pandemic Treaty Negotiator Wants To Combat Online “Misinformation,” Calls It a “Serious Health Threat”
The WHO itself is increasingly making comments about online speech.