Scandal-Ridden WHO ‘Listening in’ on Online Conversations to Counter ‘Fake COVID-19 News’
The scandal-plagued World Health Organization (WHO) is working with an analytics company to “social listen” and monitor “millions” of people’s social media accounts to combat “coronavirus misinformation.”
According to an August 25 WHO news post titled “Immunizing the public against misinformation,” the WHO, which is the health arm of the United Nations, claims there is “an overabundance of information and the rapid spread of misleading or fabricated news, images, and videos” regarding the coronavirus.
“We’re not just battling the virus,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was quoted as saying in the news release. “We’re also battling the trolls and conspiracy theorists that push misinformation and undermine the outbreak response.” . . .
The WHO held its first “Infodemiology Conference” in June and July, at which they called for the “adaptation, development, validation and evaluation of new evidence-based measures and practices to prevent, detect and respond to mis- and disinformation.”
According to the WHO in February, well before most nations even began locking down due to the coronavirus, they met at Facebook’s headquarters “about how to promote accurate health information about COVID-19.” (Read more from “Scandal-Ridden WHO ‘Listening in’ on Online Conversations to Counter ‘Fake COVID-19 News’” HERE)
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