If you’re tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. During an appearance at the World Health Summit, an annual meeting where individuals from the public and private sectors discuss global health challenges, Germany’s Health Minister, Karl Lauterbach, lamented the way social media allows the public to question decisions made by public health officials and claimed it creates an environment where “we now have…the info and then a pandemic against us.” Lauterbach was speaking on a panel discussing the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) pandemic accord/agreement/treaty, an instrument that will give the unelected WHO increased surveillance powers and new powers to target content that it deems to be “misinformation.” He and several other panelists expressed support for the treaty and complained about so-called misinformation and “disinformation” — two buzzwords that are often used to push for the censorship of content that challenges governments and public health authorities. The German Health Minister said that without supporting 40 countries “where pandemics are likely to arise,” health authorities could be “worse prepared” in the event of another pandemic because “we now have also the info and then a pandemic against us, where let’s say everything that we do is basically questions by a social media war, which will make it very more difficult to organize a response towards the future pandemics.” https://video.reclaimthenet.org/articles/world-health-summit-2023-pandemic-treaty-1.mp4 Lauterbach also complained about a “misinformation pandemic,” which he said is “widespread,” “ongoing,” and “always with us.” According to Lauterbach, this has put health officials in…German Health Minister Complains About “Misinformation Pandemic,” Social Media Scrutiny Of Health Officials