{"id":1495199,"date":"2022-05-27T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T22:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1495199"},"modified":"2022-05-27T18:15:10","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T22:15:10","slug":"fact-check-did-the-world-health-organization-publish-this-tweet-about-reforming-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-the-world-health-organization-publish-this-tweet-about-reforming-free-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did The World Health Organization Publish This Tweet About Reforming Free Speech?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-did-the-world-health-organization-publish-this-tweet-about-reforming-free-speech%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1495199&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ness.mcgregor.9\/posts\/335426355372948\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> purportedly shows a tweet from the World Health Organization (WHO) about reforming free speech.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The tweet is from a parody account. There\u2019s no evidence the WHO is planning to discuss free speech or posted such a tweet.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The WHO has commented on the rise of misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic, referring to the issue as an \u201cinfodemic,\u201d according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/spotlight\/let-s-flatten-the-infodemic-curve\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">organization<\/a>. The organization has issued guidance for readers to use to identify misinformation online.<\/p>\n<p>The Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ness.mcgregor.9\/posts\/335426355372948\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">post<\/a> appears to show a screen grab of a tweet published by the WHO. \u201cThe world leaders are about to break for a lunch of fresh Atlantic crab and Spanish pork, followed by duck and the worlds (sic) best cod from a sustainable farm in Norway,\u201d reads the alleged tweet. \u201cWhen we resume we will be discussing freedom of speech and how it could be reformed. #Davos2022.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The tweet was not published by the official WHO Twitter account. A keyword search revealed the tweet originated from an unverified <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/worldHellOrg\/status\/1529068681464012805\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">account<\/a> with the handle @worldHellOrg. <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220524213350\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/WorldHlthOrg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Online archives<\/a> show the account\u2019s handle had recently changed from @WorldHlthOrg. The account\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/worldHellOrg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bio<\/a> identifies it as a parody.<\/p>\n<p>There is no <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=freedom%20of%20speech%20reform%20(from%3AWHO)&#038;src=typed_query\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">record<\/a> of the verified WHO account sending such a tweet. It does not appear in <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220525010422\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/WHO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">archived versions<\/a> of the account. A reverse image search revealed the photo of the dinner table included in the tweet originated on the stock photo website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/image-photo\/abstract-image-celebratory-table-126067487\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shutterstock<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWHO\u2019s Facebook handle is @WHO,\u201d a WHO spokesperson confirmed to Check Your Fact in an emailed statement. \u201cSo this looks to be a fake account.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/12\/23\/fact-check-who-poster-in-this-forever\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Did The World Health Organization Create This Poster Stating \u2018We\u2019re In This Forever\u2019?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The parody post also appears to have mixed up the WHO\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/about\/governance\/world-health-assembly\/seventy-fifth-world-health-assembly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.who.int\/about\/governance\/world-health-assembly\/seventy-fifth-world-health-assembly&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1653767776171000&#038;usg=AOvVaw3pzfH1QIKvG6MdC_xuKvgV\">World Health Assembly<\/a>, held in Geneva, Switzerland, and the World Economic Forum\u2019s (WEF)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2022\/05\/davos-2022-whos-coming-and-everything-else-you-need-to-know\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2022\/05\/davos-2022-whos-coming-and-everything-else-you-need-to-know\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1653767776171000&#038;usg=AOvVaw3BxLs5Z9UF00zX9qs08RJ_\">Annual Meeting<\/a>, which was held in Davos, Switzerland. Reforming freedom of speech is not mentioned on the informational websites of either event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook purportedly shows a tweet from the World Health Organization (WHO) about reforming free speech.Verdict: False The tweet is from a parody account. 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