The spread of scientific misinformation on the social media platform is making the ECDC think twice, its director says.
  • troed@fedia.io
    121·
    5 hours ago

    No, they should be where no entity outside of European jurisdiction can influence their messaging.

    The EU commission has their own Mastodon instance. That’s how all public services should do it.

    • DarkCloud@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      4 hours ago

      I wonder how long until Xitter does this sort of thing to the EU Disease Information account:

      Community Note:

      Covid 19 is not real.

      I feel like that level of misinformation is now possible there.

      • RobotZap10000@feddit.nlEnglish
        2·
        1 hour ago

        This makes me want to invoke the remind me bot, but I don’t think we have one on Lemmy. I wager that we’ll see this exact statememt from fridge-chest when the US gets hit with the next wave of 'rona.