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World Economic Forum will plot how to counter โ€œmisinformationโ€ at its 2023 annual meeting

The international group wants to predict and mitigate what it determines to be misinformation.

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The World Economic Forum (WEF), an unelected global organization that seeks to โ€œshape global, regional and industry agendas,โ€ has announced the schedule for its 2023 annual meeting which includes a panel on countering โ€œmisinformation.โ€

The panel is titled โ€œCountering Threats in the Age of Black Swansโ€ and will take place on January 18, 2023 at 9 am Eastern Standard Time (EST).

The description for the panel doesnโ€™t define misinformation but claims that โ€œa wide range of actorsโ€ have access to โ€œan ever-increasing capacity to spread misinformation.โ€ This capacity, according to the WEF, is supposedly compounding โ€œthreats that were once considered outliers.โ€

During the panel, speakers will discuss how to predict, mitigate, and counter these threats that are supposedly aggravated by misinformation.

While the panel description doesnโ€™t define misinformation, a recent post promoting the WEFโ€™s annual meeting suggests that the group deems criticism of the WEF and challenging mainstream Covid-19 narratives to be misinformation.

In this post, the WEF complains that it has been targeted by โ€œdisinformation campaignsโ€ and links to another post where its managing director, Adrian Monck, suggests that criticism of the WEFโ€™s controversial โ€œYouโ€™ll own nothing and youโ€™ll be happyโ€ slogan is tied to a โ€œmisinformation campaign.โ€

In addition to branding criticism of this slogan misinformation, Monck also laments โ€œmisinformation concerning COVID-19 and vaccines.โ€

Not only does Monck brand these topics misinformation but he also claims that โ€œmisinformation derails free speechโ€ and calls for โ€œaction to prevent lies being accepted as truth.โ€

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This post by Monck is one of many examples of the WEF pushing for the censorship of what it deems to be misinformation. The WEF and the global leaders that attend its meetings have previously outlined how Big Tech partners with intergovernmental organizations like the United Nations (UN) to tackle disinformation, demanded that social media companies crack down on โ€œrumors,โ€ and pushed for the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to censor misinformation.

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