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Online Event - Can the EU gear up against Covid-19 disinformation?

Date

23 Apr 2020 15:30 to 16:45

Address

  ONLINE
Belgium

Section

InfoSociety

Event Description

Livestreaming will be available on our Facebook page, click here to join us online.

Disinformation and misinformation around COVID-19 continue to proliferate around the world, with potentially harmful consequences for public health and effective crisis communication. In the EU and elsewhere, coordinated disinformation messaging seeks to frame vulnerable minorities as the cause of the pandemic and to fuel distrust in the ability of democratic institutions to deliver effective responses. The World Health Organization (WHO) said false claims “are spreading faster than the virus” and has already termed it an “infodemic of planetary proportions”. How can we beat misinformation? How to recognise disinformation and help stop it from spreading? What is the EU doing about it? Join our online debate to find out answers to those questions.

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