Elon Musk has a 'huge responsibility' to tackle vaccine misinformation on Twitter, WHO official says | Businessinsider

Business Insider USSpaceX founder Elon Musk at the company's headquarters in Hawthorne, California, on October 10, 2019. PHILIP PACHECO/AFP via Getty ImagesA WHO official said Musk has a"huge responsibility" to curb vaccine misinformation.For more stories go toElon Musk will have a"huge influence" over the curbing and potential spreading of vaccine misinformation on Twitter, a World Health Organization official said., pending regulatory and shareholder approval.

Dr Mike Ryan, executive of WHO's Health Emergencies Programme, replied:"When anyone reaches a position in life where they have so much potential influence over the way information is shared with communities, they take on a huge responsibility and we wish Mr Musk luck with his endeavours to improve the quality of information that we all receive."

He added:"In cases like this pandemic, good information is life-saving. It's even as life-saving, and in some cases more life-saving than having a vaccine in the sense that bad information sends you to some very, very bad places." It's not just Twitter but all social media platforms that need to address misinformation, according to Ryan.

"Good stewardship of those platforms is extremely important. It's not the business of WHO who owns or who manages those platforms," Ryan said.

Why should he do it? This is a digital town square - the scientist can say what they want…. The difference is that they need to back it ip with Independant reliable research, not the research prescribed to them.

Piss off who, let people speak their mind

the misinformation is coking from people like Dr Fauci and the WHO. To that list we can add Main stream media.

No, he doesn't.

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