Interesting. Seems some folks used to spreading disinfo without fear of suspension are struggling with the new COVID-19 policies. Another view: Twitter is able to do with COVID misinfo/disinfo what it was unable or unwilling to do with previous political disinfo.https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/1243979360920637442 …
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(You'll note I'm not mentioning Trump admin misinformation! That's a whole other ball of wax.) The stuff on masks is honestly Saddam had WMD level misinformation. Health authorities in Hong Kong or Taiwan aren't idiots and the evidence is not even complicated.
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Anyway... We're in deep trouble. If Twitter decided to ban things that contradicted the CDC or the WHO, we would be worse off, and it pains me deeply to say that. Not at all discounting the snake-oil on social media, but the big fire is top-down.
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I'm documenting as well and have a paper coming out soon in Journalism Practice re the risks of gatecrashing by official institutions (Police, CDC, Trump etc ) on social media and how this practice is shifting gatekeeping power away from journalism.pic.twitter.com/MUjiPIAO6C
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Sharing a key graf from the discussion because life is moving so fast and this is important >pic.twitter.com/VvL74pFTxP
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The WHO was never going to be the global pub health coordinator. WHO is a convener of govts, a place where nat'l data is collated & compared, consensus best practices agreed. It does not have power OVER member states. It can't force countries to do anything, by design.
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Yes but they also didn’t have to misinform us on the most important thing. I realize the pressures they are under but this was inexcusable. Knowing what they did know, they at least could’ve tried to hedge to give the world time. Also note they change position when China does.
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