Second anniversary of WHO’s infamous tweet on Covid-19 reminds of social media’s retentive memory
Zee News
A global campaign was observed on January 14 and 15 to celebrate the second anniversary of the (in)famous tweet made by the WHO, supporting the claims of the Chinese government that “no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel Coronavirus”
New Delhi: Social media has got a strong retentive memory as data stored over servers have a long shelf life. The magnitude of users and their ability to consume and store content complements it at the same time.
An example of this virtue of social media was seen in a recent global campaign that was observed on January 14 and 15 to celebrate the second anniversary of the (in)famous tweet made by the WHO, supporting the claims of the Chinese government that “no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel Coronavirus”.
On January 14, 2020, the WHO had tweeted - “Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China.”
