{"id":67788,"date":"2024-04-30T19:30:19","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T00:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67788"},"modified":"2024-04-30T19:30:19","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T00:30:19","slug":"un-official-condemns-health-misinformation-advocates-for-digital-integrity-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67788","title":{"rendered":"UN Official Condemns Health \u201cMisinformation,\u201d Advocates for \u201cDigital Integrity Code\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UN Official Condemns Health \u201cMisinformation,\u201d Advocates for \u201cDigital Integrity Code\u201d<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Under the guise of combating disinformation, the UN advocates for stricter censorship with its new Code of Conduct for Information Integrity.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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The United Nations continues with an attempt to advance the agenda to get what the organization calls its Code of Conduct for Information Integrity on Digital Platforms implemented.<\/p>\n

This code is based on a previous policy brief that recommends censorship of whatever is deemed to be \u201cdisinformation, misinformation, hate\u201d but that is only the big picture of the policy UN Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications Melissa Fleming is staunchly promoting.<\/p>\n

In early April, Fleming gave a talk at Boston University, and here the focus was on AI, whose usefulness in various censorship ventures makes it seen as a tool that advances \u201cresilience in global communication.\u201d<\/p>\n

A piece on the\u00a0Boston University Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases<\/a>\u00a0site first asserts that AI had a \u201cmajor role\u201d in helping spread misinformation and conspiracy theories \u201cin the post-pandemic era,\u201d while the UN is described as one of the institutions that have been undermined by all this, while \u201cworking to dispel these narratives.\u201d<\/p>\n

(The article also \u2013 helpfully, in terms of understanding where its authors are coming from \u2013 cites the World Economic Forum (WEF) as the \u201cauthority\u201d which has proclaimed that \u201cthe threat from misinformation and disinformation as the most severe short-term threat facing the world today\u201d).<\/p>\n

You will hardly hear Fleming disagreeing with any of this, but the UN\u2019s approach is to \u201charness\u201d that power to serve its own agendas. The UN official\u2019s talk was about AI can be used to feed the public the desired narratives around issues like vaccines, climate change, and the \u201cwell-being\u201d of women and girls.<\/p>\n

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UN Official Condemns Health \u201cMisinformation,\u201d Advocates for \u201cDigital Integrity Code\u201d Under the guise of combating disinformation, the UN advocates for stricter censorship with its new Code of Conduct for Information Integrity. The United Nations continues with an attempt to advance the agenda to get what the organization calls its Code of Conduct for Information Integrity […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[120,33879,1426,26071,33878,822,826],"class_list":["post-67788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-censorship","tag-didi-rankovic","tag-misinformation","tag-narrative-management","tag-reclaim-the-net","tag-un","tag-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67789,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67788\/revisions\/67789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}