Andrew Cox

The UN Declares 'War' Against Covid and Climate Change 'Misinformation' "We are in an information war... we need to massively ramp up our response." The UN's Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications Melissa Flemings blamed Twitter/X for the spread of dangerous misinformation and "hate speech" at the Nobel Prize Summit. "And of course, firings at Twitter have left us with no one to call to flag content that is abusive or even incitement to violence. We're now seeing that almost anyone can promote disinformation for the price of a blue tick." "We have teamed up with the platforms to elevate reliable information around Covid and climate to amplify trusted messengers, and we have quite an army of them out there who want to take un content and promote it within their followings, and also educating users on how to slow the spread of disinformation." "Our new slogan that we want to have everybody have in their ear when they're online is 'pause, take care before you share'." "But yet we do feel like we are in an information war and that we need to massively ramp up our response." "So we're creating at the essential capacity to monitor and also have the ability to rapidly react when miss and disinformation and hate speech is threatening not just our people, our operations, but also the issues and the causes that we're working on." "But also we are going to be gearing up our verified initiative around climate change and developing this UN code of conduct on information integrity on digital platforms, hoping to set global standards that we can all advocate around, so that we can collectively work for more humane internet." The United Nations has announced a global effort to police the Internet for any "misinformation" that threatens the "issues and causes." Alarming.