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Owning Science

15 October 2022

9:00 AM

15 October 2022

9:00 AM

‘We own The Science and we think that the world should know it.’ Those were the words of the UN Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications Melissa Fleming last month, speaking on a panel on disinformation at a World Economic Forum conference. Fleming was boasting about how the UN had partnered with Google to change the search results for topics like Covid and climate change.

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