Infodemic(Information/News Pandemic) in times of Corona
Infodemic(Information/News Pandemic) in times of Corona
Report by: Gaurika Kalsi
The Empower People Organization has taken an initiative and organized webinar series to support, educate, and help people towards their overall empowerment.
The following report is based on one of those webinars.
The topic of the panel discussion was “Infodemic (Information/News Pandemic) in times of Corona)”.
It was conducted on 2nd June 2020 at 08:00pm.
Panellists for the session were:
• Mr.Syed Ahmed Fahad
• Dr. Rakesh Rana
• Mr Shukoh
Some of the points by Mr.Syed:
• Significance of infodemic
• News formulation during pandemic
• Social media and fake news
• Governmental obligation with media
• Verification of news
• Authenticity
• Twitter’s initiative
• Social media and sensitive data
• Controversies and restrictions
• Print media and covid-19
Some of the points by Dr.Rakesh:
• Understanding of infodemic
• Cause of infodemic
• Media Vs Social media
• Lack of interactions & consequences
• New liberalism era
• Awareness
• Short term and long term provisions
• Software to rectify irrelevant/inappropriate info
Some of the points by Mr Shukoh:
• News pandemic
• Questions to Dr.Rakesh
• Questions to Mr Syed
• Media allegations
• Fact interpretation
• Political information
• Individuals influenced by fake information
