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Podcast: ICRC Humanitarian Law and Policy Blog
Episode: You can’t handle the truth: misinformation and humanitarian action
Description: Misinformation is on the rise, and the humanitarian sector has not escaped the consequences. The misinformation environment not only sustains itself in a vicious cycle, but also increases data protection challenges and disrupts humanitarian protection and assistance work.
In this post, Rachel Xu from the Yale Jackson Institute for Global Affairs overviews some key characteristics of a fertile misinformation environment, the challenges these pose for data protection, and the implications of misinformation for humanitarian operations.