After reading the articles about misinformation on SARS-CoV-2 for assignment 1C, my main question for today would be how often does this happen? I mean obviously in today's society with social media apps and people posting whatever they first hear about new viruses or illnesses they are bound to get facts wrong. However, not a lot of people know this. They see something that they think can be true, or has some truth in it, and they automatically share it without a second thought or look into the source they are sharing. How many times throughout history has something like this happened, ultimately causing more harm than good, intentionally or not. Along with this, should there be certain words, or phrases that are blacklisted on these apps, that only qualified personnel are allowed to share/talk about whatever that is blacklisted? I think this would increase the output of factual information instead of someone throwing out into the world what they think might be true, instead of being the actual fact. With this, say when information on SARS-CoV-2 first began to circulate, only certain health officials and higher rankings would be able to push out information, and with this information only being pushed out at certain times or by certain people, I think the general population would reach out and find this information, since it would relatively be the only source of information on the topic they would be able to receive.
We live in a "free" society. along with freedom of speech comes freedom to disperse misinformation but I agree with you; too bad we can't put a stop to all this misinformation