• The WHO is focusing more on policing speech regarding public health and implementing global surveillance systems.
• The WHO continues to advocate for a legally binding international treaty that would allow it to surveil and manage information and dictate national health policies in all member states.
• The WHO’s “social listening” program monitors public conversations to gauge public perceptions and address misinformation. Critics worry this infringes on free speech.
• The WHO’s broad definition of misinformation, combined with its expanded surveillance powers, raises fears of potential censorship and suppression of alternative viewpoints, potentially at the cost of individual freedoms.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has been under the spotlight since the onset of the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in early 2020 – and not just for its handling of health issues.

For many, it has become clear that the organization has been quietly shifting its gears from a focus on global health to a more controversial mission: surveilling and policing speech. This move has raised eyebrows among many observers, including those who are fiercely protective of personal freedoms and individual rights.

The WHO is currently pushing for an international pandemic treaty that would give it sweeping powers to surveil and manage information. The treaty, if finalized, would impose legally binding conditions on 194 member states, effectively allowing the WHO to dictate health policies across the globe. (Related: World Health Organization threatens another “Disease X” like COVID unless all nations obey its authoritarian Pandemic Treaty.)

At the center of this effort is something called “social listening.” This is a method of analyzing public conversations and narratives to gauge public perceptions and concerns. The WHO plans to use social listening to monitor what people are saying about health issues, especially topics that could be categorized as so-called misinformation or disinformation.

Pandemic Treaty drastically expands WHO surveillance powers

The WHO’s proposed treaty includes several provisions that would dramatically expand its surveillance powers. For example, Article 18 of the treaty calls for member states to “strengthen multisectoral, coordinated, interoperable and integrated One Health surveillance systems.”

One Health is a concept that links the health of people, animals and ecosystems to create new surveillance and disease control methods. Article 18 essentially gives the WHO the authority to dictate how countries should approach health monitoring across various sectors.

Article 11 also pushes for the establishment of global, regional and national collaborative genomics networks dedicated to epidemiological genomic surveillance and the global sharing of emerging pathogens with pandemic potential. This provision extends WHO’s surveillance apparatus into taking note of people’s genes.

The WHO’s move for these expanded powers also extends to its efforts to combat so-called misinformation and disinformation. The organization has been working to develop tools, frameworks and training programs to help member states address supposed health misinformation and disinformation. One such initiative is the OpenWHO platform, which provides training and resources for detecting, analyzing and addressing misinformation.

However, the WHO’s definition of misinformation and disinformation is broad and can be subject to interpretation. This has led to WHO critics’ becoming concerned about the potential for censorship and the suppression of alternative viewpoints.

The WHO’s efforts to manage misinformation also extend to “social listening,” which can be seen as a form of surveillance, and many critics argue that it infringes on personal freedoms and the right to free speech.

Watch this video discussing the views of Dr. Brock Chisholm, the WHO’s first director-general, including how he believed in the necessity of creating a world government.

This video is from the ThriveTime Show channel on Brighteon.com.

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