Anti-fake news centre detects sharp rise in Covid-19 misinformation

By The Nation

 

 

An alarming rise in fake news during the Covid-19 outbreak has left authorities scrambling to tackle the problem.

 

 

The Digital Economy and Society Ministry (DES) says it is now examining 6,411 posts of suspected misinformation, more than half of which are health-related.

 

Buddhipongse Punnakanta, DES minister, said people could pass on information about news they suspected was fraudulent to the ministry’s anti-fake news centre.

 

He also asked media to fight the proliferation of fake news by helping spread accurate information to the public, and announced plans to organise a workshop for his staff to combat the problem.

 

The anti-fake news centre has received more than 17 million (17,255,640) reports of misinformation since its launch on November 1 last year, said DES permanent secretary Ajarin Pattanapanchai. Of the posts reported, 18,479 were confirmed as fake news.

 

The centre is currently assessing another 6,411 reports – 3,539 related to health, 2,499 to government policy, 125 to disasters and 248 to the economy,

 

People can report suspected misinformation at https://www.antifakenewscenter.com, the Anti-Fake News Center Facebook page, Twitter @AfncThailand, Line @antifakenewscenter or the GCC 1111-87 hotline.

 

Reports are assessed by artificial intelligence, categorised, analysed and evaluated for context.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30395146

 

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This is different from what the Thai Government puts out about Covid how? All their stats and stories are full of half truths at best.

33 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

Anti-fake news centre detects sharp rise in Covid-19 misinformation

 

Which means….any news or information that does not originate from 'official' government sources and does not promote ‘approved’ government agendas...is, by definition....'fake'.

 

 

 

Edited September 26, 20205 yr by Hayduke

15 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

Reports are assessed by artificial intelligence,

There's your problem right there.There's a lot of this going around and it's an ongoing problem.

hahaha this whole place is fake. 

What next? a truth department who will monitor the anti fake department?...

6 hours ago, Yinn said:

 

masks not work

 

 

 

 

 

This is a scientific fact ... 

And if you read the label on the packaging of the mask [if it is an N95] it is written there !!!

 

How about the PCR test ? ... is it certified ? Is it validated ? Does it indicate a virus or an infection ?

No it does not !!! Scientific fact.

 

How about mortality rates ?

How can Thailand have a Pandemic with only 3,000 cases ? ... that's not even an epidemic !

 

I could go on for hours

Even the experts here are arguing about the different restrictions.

Some say masks work, and some say the effort is useless compared to how effective they are. 

 

Some say hand sanitizing is great and some say it's not worth the effort since covid is not spreading very much as vira on surfaces. 

 

The only thing they can seem to agree on is that social Distancing is effective, which makes sense, since our normal flu season was so much lighter compared to other years. 

We're entering a new flu season soon, so will be interesting to see the numbers after a while. 

 

Each day a new expert has a different view on covid 19 and it's frustrating as a normal citizen to watch the official guidelines change so much. 

It seems like they have no clue what so ever, and are just trying different things and hope it helps. 

 

And some have an opinion one day but change their mind the next day. 

 

It's not easy to know which leg to stand on. 

Sadly much of the news these days is fake as media presents only what reinforces its favored paradigm. Many alt sites use click bait to make money so these have to be weighed up as well.

 

The truth is out there, but not where social media points, and certainly not what government says. Still comes down to reading widely and using objective thought, two past-times much out of fashion these days.

7 hours ago, mr mr said:

hahaha this whole place is fake. 

nah, just most of the visitors..

the Dept itself is fake

 - as it is only there to keep public servants in a job... while the rest starve...

looks a lot like the fakers calling out the fakes lol

A troll post and the replies have been removed. 

If there were no governments there would no fake news,

just my fake rolex.

12 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Reports are assessed by artificial intelligence

Hope they aren't female ones .. they can run out of mammary .. 

4 hours ago, brain150 said:

This is a scientific fact ... 

And if you read the label on the packaging of the mask [if it is an N95] it is written there !!!

 

How about the PCR test ? ... is it certified ? Is it validated ? Does it indicate a virus or an infection ?

No it does not !!! Scientific fact.

 

How about mortality rates ?

How can Thailand have a Pandemic with only 3,000 cases ? ... that's not even an epidemic !

 

I could go on for hours

Thailand has such a low number because here they wear masks against pollution traditionally. 

12 hours ago, rooster59 said:

The anti-fake news centre

On 9/26/2020 at 6:51 AM, rooster59 said:

The anti-fake news centre has received more than 17 million (17,255,640) reports of misinformation since its launch on November 1 last year, said DES permanent secretary Ajarin Pattanapanchai. Of the posts reported, 18,479 were confirmed as fake news.

0.1% confirmed as fake - 99.9% true?

 

I want the official fake news only! Only the fake ones approved by the government.

 

 

19 hours ago, micmichd said:

Thailand has such a low number because here they wear masks against pollution traditionally. 

 

 

 

Confirmation bias - you've found an example, Thailand, that confirms your theory - "masks = low numbers", whereas you should look for those that disconfirm it.

 

Indonesians also wear masks. Japanese do. Koreans do. Even chinese do. Where are the low numbers there, the ones that are compariable to the ones of Thailand? Especially in Indonesia.

 

Thailand has tested only 0.5% of its population, during the whole time, hence the low numbers. In India, for instance, they test the same amount daily.

 

 

Edited September 27, 20205 yr by dastakantattaka

Does this organism will inform facts relations between economic interest between propaganda initial request experts and their own bank account (also the one in fiscal paradise) ?

I think this should be helpful to definitely well understand the reality of the situation around COVID-19 situation propaganda and the vaccine/medic international lobby's corruption running.

 

Let's be honest and intelligent, target the principal motivation of war: money origin and transactions.

 

For numbers, it is easy, just be good at school for statistic is enough to perfectly understand that the pandemic is finish, but the corruption story time and then, the panic informal job experts tasks are not finished as long as the not force people to buy vaccine.

 

Do they will attack also the doctors around the world who denounce these acts of corruption and false pandemic which is no more ?

Take care, it is a fight you will sure loose... and the implication would be a drama story for your business for long time next. Better to shut up i think, be intelligent, history show that public opinion can be huge powered than a minority of sectarian businessmen.

21 hours ago, micmichd said:

Thailand has such a low number because here they wear masks against pollution traditionally. 

That may have helped a bit but probably the low ratevof testing helped more.

21 hours ago, Justgrazing said:

Hope they aren't female ones .. they can run out of mammary .. 

are you hoping they will not make She males 555