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The institute of data and democracy and politics which is presenting this event together with the International Committee on this information. Ill be your moderator and your timekeeper and i will continue this conversation with her distinguished panel and guest. If you are journalist, please feel free to put your question into the q a field, make sure that is addressed to everybody so we can see that and i will try to incorporate some of the questions to our panel in a bit. Social media platforms as we know and discussed our allowing actors to sell on illegal and overpriced medical equipment d...

Minutes. Welcome to our continuing conversation about the big social media platform in response to the disinformation campaigns around the covid19 pandemic, very serious situation where lives are literally in the balance. Im the director of the George Washington University School of Public Affairs affiliated with the institute of data and democracy and politics which is presenting this event together with the International Committee on this information. Ill be your moderator and your timekeeper and i will continue this conversation with her distinguished panel and guest. If you are journalist,...

Organizations and serve the consumers you are committed to, first and foremost, it affected our Companies Just like all companies. It had to protect its own employees, particular for a set of companies that ran large call centers with large collections of people. All of the processes had to be rapidly transformed. Now we have 90 of Call Center Employees working at home. Most have self install plans to avoid sending technicians to the home. Obviously the country did something unheard of. It locked down the nation, essentially ordered people to stay home. I think one of the reasons they could sa...

Playing out on the front lines of healthcare, and how those harms can drive the decisions and the policies Going Forward that can affect other platforms are held accountable and how they behave. So lets start with a short video if we can. To illustrate the damaging impact that disinformation can have on healthcare professional professionals, on consumers who turn to social media for information, about covid19 generally and about how to protect themselves. Take a look. I have had colleagues that shared with me tragic cases of intentional bleach that were aimed at preventing or curing covid19 by...

Will try to incorporate any of those questions to our panel in a bit. Social media platforms as we discussed are allowing unscrupulous actors to sell unsafe, illegal, and overpriced medical equipment during this pandemic. That is one of many issues that we see across the social media platforms. This one is not a new problem. Social media platforms continue to allow these dangerous disinformation during covid 19 pandemic, and in so doing, they expose just how dangerous and how irresponsible this kind of behavior can be and the role they play and continuing to allow it. Rampant conspiracy theori...