Wuhan virus: Swift action on any falsehoods on virus to prevent panic, says Iswaran
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useful local examples of fake news:
1)the Pofma Office issued a correction direction to online forum HardwareZone to correct a fake post that someone had died in Singapore from the virus.
2)Last Saturday, a thread of messages on HardwareZone said Singapore repatriated more than 100 Wuhan tourists to China, leading to Facebook clarifications by the Ministry of Health (MOH) and the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority that roundly refuted this as untrue.
While information can help to inform, educate and build trust, it can be abused to spread falsehoods and create anxiety, alarm and panic, and this was being seen in the Wuhan virus situation
useful local examples of fake news:
1)the Pofma Office issued a correction direction to online forum HardwareZone to correct a fake post that someone had died in Singapore from the virus.
2)Last Saturday, a thread of messages on HardwareZone said Singapore repatriated more than 100 Wuhan tourists to China, leading to Facebook clarifications by the Ministry of Health (MOH) and the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority that roundly refuted this as untrue.
While information can help to inform, educate and build trust, it can be abused to spread falsehoods and create anxiety, alarm and panic, and this was being seen in the Wuhan virus situation
posted by Dark Shadow | 6:38 PM
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