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Spreading the word, stopping the virus

Spreading the word, stopping the virus

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Making sure that information about COVID-19 is accurate, and how to stay protected, is crucial to getting the pandemic under control.
UNESCO, the UN agency responsible for science and education, has a key role in combating the widespread disinformation that is spreading around the world, and promoting the facts.
Conor Lennon from UN News spoke to Moez Chackchouk, Assistant Director-General of UNESCO, and started by asked him how to describe the scale of the so-called “disinfodemic”
 

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Conor Lennon/ UN News
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