Lessons for Resilience
Consider steps to reduce or mitigate the effects of disinformation concerning COVID-19
Topic:
Governance
Keywords:
Strategic communications
Content:
By circulating through social media, encrypted messaging services, online discussion boards and face to face interaction. To achieve this, organisations might consider:
- Identifying fake news and actively debunking it on own social media accounts and public display boards
- Closely monitor automated systems for errors. In Australia the CovidSafe App alarmed and confused users with a message telling them that they had contracted coronavirus when trying to upload their information, despite not being tested. Additionally, in Ukraine, residents attacked busses with evacuees from China after a hoax email falsely attributed to the Ministry of Health suggested some carried the virus
- Supporting the public to think critically about, question and fact-check information they receive
- Working with community leaders to circulate useful, accurate information
- Monitoring and evaluating the impact of their own communication strategy, possibly working with partners such as universities to undertake social media analytics
Source link(s):
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Australia,
China,
India
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8258387/Panic-Australians-told-coronavirus-new-government-app.html