Bilawal urges UN to create task force to tackle disinformation

Foreign Minister (FM) Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari in his virtual address to the Group of Friends on Countering Disinformation urged that a United Nations (UN) backed task force be set up to counter disinformation.

“We should agree on an international plan to counter disinformation online and offline, in the public and private domain,” said Bilawal.

He urged that the UN department of information set an international standard of guidelines that countries can follow to tackle disinformation.

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FM Bhutto put forth some of his own suggestions on how disinformation can be dealt with ranging from creating public awareness campaigns about disinformation to increasing the capacity of governments to filter and limit hate speech.

“Misinformation is the biggest problem of this era,” Bilawal said. “An effective strategy has to be formulated to tackle the issue of disinformation.”