TechCrunch has contacted each of the companies in the joint statement for more details, and will update this post as we hear back from them. They also have to contend with misleading information in several of President Donald Trump’s public statements on COVID-19, including his tweets and Facebook posts. Fake news spreads faster and more easily than this virus, and is just as dangerous.”īut tech companies aren’t just battling the spread of questionable posts by the public. 15, almost a month before the WHO officially declared COVID-19 a pandemic, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said “We’re not just fighting an epidemic we’re fighting an infodemic. During an address at the Munich Security conference on Feb. The World Health Organization’s director-general said last month that disinformation is as dangerous as COVID-19. The Washington Post and Politico reported that the White House asked Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, IBM, Cisco and Twitter for help. Last week, U.S Chief Technology Officer Michael Michael Kratsios held a remote meeting with representatives from major tech companies on how to coordinate various efforts related to COVID-19, including fighting disinformation. Joint Industry Statement from and /GGJdX7mFKb
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