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TikTok continues to be a propaganda arm of the United Nations and the World Health Organization: perspective
TikTok and the World Health Organization (WHO) enter a one-year partnership to train influencers and promote regime-approved content concerning public health on the social media platform.
On the 26th of September, 2024, TikTok put out a on the partnership, saying that it was a way for the social media company “to create reliable content and combat misinformation.”
“Today, we’re partnering with the World Health Organization (WHO) to create reliable content and combat misinformation through the Fides network, a diverse community of trusted healthcare professionals and content creators”
Tiktok Press Release, September 2024
“Through our collaboration with WHO, we will be engaging Fides creators to translate complex scientific research into relatable and digestible video content, expanding across various health topics.
“To further equip creators, we will be working closely with WHO to provide access to creator training programs and resources,” the TikTok press release reads.
“People are increasingly being targeted with misinformation and malinformation on these digital channels. The new collaboration between WHO and TikTok is to help addressing these challenges by promoting evidence-based content and encourage positive health dialogues”
World Health Organization (WHO) Press Release, September 2024
The WHO also put out a on the partnership, explaining how certain influencers would be chosen and targeted to be propagandists for the regime:“This is where WHO can step in to support influencers in delivering evidence-based information, ensuring that health conversations on platforms like TikTok are both impactful and informed”
Dr Alain Labrique, WHO Director of Digital Health and Innovation, September 2024
“The collaboration will expand efforts around a number of relevant health topics, translating science-based information into relatable and digestible video content, with more support for influencers provided through TikTok’s creator training programs.”
According to the WHO, the goal of the partnership is to leverage “multiple digital communication platforms to increase outreach to people globally, to promote health literacy, healthy behaviors and actions in an increasingly digitized world.”
“We own the science, and we think that the world should know it, and the platforms themselves also do“
UN Comms Director Melissa Fleming, World Economic Forum Sustainable Development Impact Meetings, September 2022
“Another really key strategy we had was to deploy influencers,” she said, adding, “influencers who were really keen, who have huge followings, but really keen to help carry messages that were going to serve their communities, and they were much more trusted than the United Nations telling them something from New York City headquarters.”
“We had another trusted messenger project, which was called ‘Team Halo’ where we trained scientists around the world and some doctors on TikTok, and we had TikTok working with us,” she added.
In the same panel, Fleming declared, “We own the science, and we think that the world should know it, and the platforms themselves also do” while bragging about how the UN partnered with Google to manipulate search results, so that only UN-approved messaging would appear at the top.