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WHO Warns About the Dangers of Health Misinformation as Musk Takes Over Twitter
Title (Dublin Core)
WHO Warns About the Dangers of Health Misinformation as Musk Takes Over Twitter
Description (Dublin Core)
This is a news story from Bloomberg News by Andy Hoffman and Clara Hernanz Lizarraga. Since Elon Musk has officially acquired Twitter, it has prompted groups like the World Health Organization to give warnings on COVID misinformation. Mike Ryan, the executive director of the health emergencies program at the WHO issued a statement on Musk buying Twitter for $44 billion dollars.
“When anyone reaches a position in life where they have so much influence over the way information is shared with communities, they take on a huge responsibility,” Ryan said at the media briefing in Geneva. “We wish Mr. Musk luck with his endeavors to improve the quality of information we all receive.”
Throughout the pandemic, the WHO has worked to make sure correct information about the pandemic and vaccines are being spread. The WHO has an overall fear now that bad information could be spread more easily about COVID and possibly cause more death.
“When anyone reaches a position in life where they have so much influence over the way information is shared with communities, they take on a huge responsibility,” Ryan said at the media briefing in Geneva. “We wish Mr. Musk luck with his endeavors to improve the quality of information we all receive.”
Throughout the pandemic, the WHO has worked to make sure correct information about the pandemic and vaccines are being spread. The WHO has an overall fear now that bad information could be spread more easily about COVID and possibly cause more death.
Date (Dublin Core)
April 26, 2022
Creator (Dublin Core)
Andy Hoffman
Clara Hernanz Lizarraga
Event Identifier (Dublin Core)
HST580
Partner (Dublin Core)
Arizona State University
Type (Dublin Core)
Text story
Link (Bibliographic Ontology)
Publisher (Dublin Core)
Bloomberg
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Pandemic Skeptics
English
Social Media (including Memes)
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
Bloomberg
misinformation
WHO
purchase
variants
tracking
warning
tracing
Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)
Twitter
social media
free speech
World Health Organization
Elon Musk
misinformation
pandemic skepticism
vaccine skepticism
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Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
04/26/2022
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
04/26/2022
08/02/2022
Date Created (Dublin Core)
04/26/2022
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This item was submitted on April 26, 2022 by [anonymous user] using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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