After the Corona virus, a dangerous pandemic threatens the world, and this is a recipe for survival!
In recent years, the world has faced the Corona pandemic, which destroyed everything and caused crises in all areas of life. Perhaps we are all feeling its effects now, whether on the financial, health or psychological level.
We have challenged a lot in light of the Corona pandemic during the past two years, but now we are facing a new pandemic of another kind, which is “disinformation”.
The World Health Organization is one of the agencies that has been hit the most by the repercussions of the outbreak of the new Corona virus, as false news about the disease spread very quickly through social media.
Despite the organization’s efforts to spread correct information and combat fake news, today it is facing a new challenge represented in the dependence of some people on reports and information provided through programs and applications of artificial intelligence, which constitutes an additional burden on the organization and governments around the world. .
In order to meet this challenge, the organization has established a team that works in cooperation with search engine companies and social networks, such as Facebook, Google, Pinterest, Twitter, TikTok, YouTube, and others, with the aim of combating the spread of rumors and false news related to the Corona virus.
Guidance from the World Health Organization during the spread of the Corona pandemic
Last June, the head of the organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, expressed his regret that a “small minority” had issued “misleading information and deliberately manipulated the facts,” stressing that the goals of the World Health Organization were “public, open and transparent.”
The World Health Organization has coined a new term for this, the “infodemic.”
According to technology experts, generative AI tools are “the most powerful tool for disseminating misinformation being spread on the Internet”.
“You can now craft a new false narrative on a dramatic scale… AI has contributors to disinformation,” says Gordon Krovitz of News Guard, which tracks fake news.
