Testimony on COVID-Communication for EU Parliament
Channel: Audra Lawson
Date: 2023-02-11

Apologies for the incorrect clip posted before. 

Communication Strategies during the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Impact on the acceptance of measures by citizens. 

This research analyses how governments, public health experts and other professionals communicated during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the impact of the latter on these communication strategies. It investigates COVID-19 misinformation and disinformation practices, and how these practices were addressed in the EU by the Member States and the European Commission. It draws up recommendations to improve these responses in the future, including by analysing the role of the Code of Practice on disinformation ad the expected impact of the Digital Services Act.

This document was provided by the Policy Department for Economic, Scientific and Quality of Life Policies at the request of the Special Committee on the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons learned and recommendations for the future.

Link to report: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2023/740063/IPOL_STU(2023)740063_EN.pdf 

Part of the PUBLIC HEARING on The impact of disinformation, misinformation and propaganda on democracy during the pandemic