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Experts warn technology-driven ‘infodemic’ could jeopardise COVID-19 vaccine roll-out – SBS News
As developers seek approval for COVID-19 vaccines, the World Health Organisation says technology is amplifying an ‘infodemic’ that undermines the global virus response….
As early as February, with the global pandemic spreading fast, the World Health Organisation issued a warning about an “infodemic”, a wave of fake news and misinformation about the deadly new disease on social media.
Now with hopes hanging on COVID-19 vaccines, the WHO and experts are warning those same phenomena may jeopardise roll-out of immunisation programmes meant to bring an end to the suffering.
“The coronavirus disease is the first pandemic in history in which technology and social media…
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