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It s not only about protecting health, but society as a whole The COVID-19 pandemic has brought with it a tsunami of false, misleading, and even hazardous information. #mediadev spoke to Sylvie Briand, the World Health Organization s leading expert on the infodemic. Syrians walk past a mural painted as part of an awareness campaign in the city of Qamishli #mediadev: Mrs. Briand, in the context of the Covid-19 crisis the World Health Organization, or WHO, famously coined the term infodemic: an overabundance of information, bringing with it a wave of misinformation. What aspect of it struck you most? Silvie Briand: The infodemic is a phenomenon we see with every epidemic: With the rapid increase in cases of disease we see a rapid increase in information. There is good information, but there are also rumors, fake news or whatever––which we have seen before in other outbreaks. In Ebola outbreaks, for example, people were saying Ebola doesn t exist, or people didn t want to go to

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