Pandemic vs Infodemic
Friendly handshakes have become a no-no; conferences, events, games and large gatherings have been canceled; universities are conducting their classes online to keep their students off campuses; tech giants like Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Facebook and many companies - big and small are asking their employees to work from home. While the pandemic of Covid-19 is plummeting stocks, emptying shelves at grocery stores and forcing the leaders of the world to close their doors to economic boom and travelers, here are a few snippets of what the World Health Organization (WHO) is calling the “infodemic,” created by social media. · TikTok raked up 27 million views of the first video posted by WHO, on measures that people can take to protect themselves from coronavirus. · Sprinklr counted a record nearly 20 million mentions of coronavirus-related terms on March 11. · ...