Combatting COVID-19 disinformation on online platforms: Disinformation and misinformation about COVID-19 is quickly and widely disseminated across the Internet, reaching and potentially influencing many people.
This policy brief derives four key actions that governments and platforms can take to counter COVID-19 disinformation on platforms, namely:
1) supporting a multiplicity of independent fact-checking organisations;
2) ensuring human moderators are in place to complement technological solutions;
3) voluntarily issuing transparency reports about COVID-19 disinformation; and
4) improving users’ media, digital and health literacy skills.
