WhatsApp Launch Their Coronavirus Data and Information Centre Website
WhatsApp announced the two initial activities to support the counteracting of Coronavirus outbreak around the world. WhatsApp launches its Coronavirus Data and information Centre to each country all over the world in cooperation with the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, UNDP. Moreover, WhatsApp donated one million US dollars to the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) of Poynter Institute.
WhatsApp Coronavirus Data and Information Center was built to collect all of the simple and practiced useful instructions for the Health Service officers, Educators, Social Group leaders, Charity Organizations, Government officers, and Businesses who are contacted using WhatsApp. This website will reduce the fake news spreading deviated from definite right news as it will share very approved and right sources of news for users all over the world. Photo Source https://www.whatsapp.com/coronavirus
WhatsApp services continuously to contact easily with the best way of privacy while so far from each other. There, at the WhatsApp Data and Information Center, you can make a group to contact on WhatsApp tech functions. Moreover, WhatsApp tries to set emergency contact numbers to contact directly to all countries all over the world in cooperation with WHO, UNICEF, etc.
All these contact lines will be seen on the WhatsApp Coronavirus Data and Information Center and can share very reliable information there. WhatsApp shared and cooperated with Health and Sports Ministries and NGOs of Singapore, Israel, South Africa, Brazil, and Indonesia for their users to get very reliable information about Corona Virus. Last one year, WhatsApp contacts directly and works together with many fact-checking organizations for fake news to report to them while using WhatsApp and SMS.
We have understood that WhatsApp is using more than general use to contact among lovers, friends, doctors and patients, teachers and students at this time of difficulties now all over the world. So, at this time, we like to create technological resources that can helpfully in connection with each other. Photo Source https://www.whatsapp.com/coronavirus
Will Cathcart, Senior of WhatsApp told that “We very much appreciate as we could perform in discussion with Poynter Institute to support the process of Recuse organizations by searching and take actions for the fake news, in connection with Fact-checking organizations to get the right information. WhatsApp trying continuously to their legal announcements directly connecting with each countries’ Ministries of Health and Sport to get to the public in a timely manner.
Baybars Orsek, Director of IFCN told that “Now, the right definite news will get to the public widely as the donation of WhatsApp is very effective to the partner organizations of Fact-Checkings. For the benefits, it can help to screen and remove the fake news now as there is a lot of information related to Coronavirus named as Infodemic even by the WHO.IFCN is going to study the ways that how it spread like rumors and fable that related to health on WhatsApp. We hope to create technology-based devices to screen and remove fake news on WhatsApp application for the persons who check information.
Achim Steiner, Administrator of UNDP told that “This is one of the important parts in striving of International Society trying to protect the spreading of the virus in a timely manner between regional public to get the right information that related to COVID-19. It is the very supportive reasons for the important information had got from Health service persons to get to the public in a timely manner as a result that getting from the cooperation between WHO and public companies like WhatsApp.
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