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Legislators from both the u. S. And canada, discussed the challenges they are facing. Cement was caused by George Washington University Institute for data democracy and politics. Welcome to our continuing conversation about the social media platforms in response to this information campaigns around covid19 pandemic. Very serious situation. Obviously where it lives are literally in the balance. On director of the George Washington University School of many of the public affairs. Affiliated with the institute of data democracy and politics which is presenting this event together with the International Committee on disinformation. Ill be your moderator and your timekeeper and i will continue this conversation with her distinguished panelists and guests. And if you are journalist, please feel free to put your question into the q a. And make sure that is addressed to everybody so that we can all see it and i will try to incorporatee at least some of those questions to our panel in a bit. So
Next, a look at scams, profiteering and conspiracy theories from the coronavirus pandemic. Medical experts, victims of disinformation campaigns and legislatures from both the u. S. And canada discuss the challenges they are facing. Hosted by George Washington Universities Institute for data, democracy and politics on tuesday. This is an hour and ten minutes. Welcome to our continuing conversation about the flaws of big social media platforms in response to the disinformation campaigns around covid19 pandemic, a very serious situation, obviously, where lives are literally in the balance. Im frank sesno affiliated with the institute of data and democracy in politics which is presenting this event together with the International Grand committee on disinformation. I will be your moderator and your timekeeper. I will continue this conversation with our distinguished panelists and guests. If you are a journalist joining us, feel free to put your question into the q a field. I will try to inc
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 during the pandemic. That is one of many issues that we see across a social media platform. This one is not a new problem, social media platforms continue to allow the dangerous disinformation during the covid19 pandemic and in so doing they expose how dangerous and how irresponsible this kind of behavior can be and the role that they play in continuing to allow it. Rampant conspiracy theories make