Africa Check, Agence France-Presse Fact Check, PesaCheck, and Meedan.Announcing the launch of this initiative, Dr Moeti Tshidi spoke on the dual challenge the pandemic brings. She said the dual challenge is fighting the virus and fighting misinformation around the virus while noting the need to properly address both challenges.“In Africa and globally, we have faced an unprecedented dual challenge in the response to COVID We are fighting a highly infectious, dangerous virus, and highly infectious, dangerous misinformation.“Misinformation harms people’s physical & mental health.
It increases stigma & anxiety, threatens precious health gains, & reduces adherence to preventive measures like wearing masks.“Through Buy Bulk SMS Service this new Alliance, we will work with fact-checkers & the media to correct misconceptions, conspiracy theories & rumours, & with technical experts to make sure people can access accurate, concise, timely information.”Also speaking at the launch, the UN secretary-general for global communication, Melissa Fleming, noted that the UN realised when CIVID- came that it was faced with a communication crisis seeing this was the first pandemic in the social media age.
When the COVID pandemic hit the world, we realised that we were faced with an unprecedented global public health crisis. But at the same time, it was clear to us at the UN that we were facing an unprecedented communication crisis as well.“We are living in a polluted media landscape that has toxic misinformation and disinformation mixed in with the good information.”Also, Dr Ben Adeiza from IFRC spoke on the importance of the public to put an end to this pandemic.“Epidemics start & end in communities.
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