HealthyCommunicators

Sharing info on health communication – what works, what doesn’t, how we can do it better. Tweets by @MetcalfeEliza and @thecargolife and are ours.

[HealthyCommunicators @_HealthyComms]

Time or money? Why you need both to be healthy - Health & Wellbeing http://t.co/xjpTnD1CGS

[HealthyCommunicators @_HealthyComms]

@caitecassidy @AustralianOpen @Channel9 100% this. Before this doubles match, they were showing Berretini vs Rune, so just an anti-women approach in general. I get it's a second channel likely assigned to covering John Cain Arena, but lazy programming and speaks volumes to what they think of women's sport.

[Jess Hill @jessradio]

Leaders across Australia are calling men’s violence against women a national crisis. So let’s get serious about getting results. We need to prioritise the development of an innovative, results-based strategy for preventing gendered violence. 1/

[VicHealth @VicHealth]

Professor Sutton shares a secret with us: AI companies have created AI voice cloning - they haven't released it because of the damage it could do

#WHSMelbourne2024

[Caterina Giorgi @catgiorgi]

Deep fake - fake content that mimics the real thing and is hard to distinguish from the real thing.

Shallow fake - fake content that mimics the real thing and isn’t as great a quality.

#misinformationitis

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[World Health Summit @WorldHealthSmt]

“The school system will need to be very agile in uplifting digital literacy.” says Brett Sutton @CSIRO in the face of fast developments of #AI technologies like deepfakes and voice cloning. #WHSMelbourne2024

[Ilona Kickbusch @IlonaKickbusch]

Some thoughts linked to the final panel just now ⁦@WorldHealthSmt⁩ #WHSMelbourne2024 https://t.co/G1POD9fPL1

[VicHealth @VicHealth]

.@brianwong_ 's got a acroynm:

📍 T: Teach them media literacy
📍 R: Regulate them well
📍 U: Uplift the good bits
📍 T: Team up with communities
📍 H: Harmonisation throughout our lives

#WHSMelbourne2024

[VicHealth @VicHealth]

Professor Sutton mentions that the @CSIRO is doing investigations into generative AI.

Results:
It does pretty well if you ask it a "does X do Y?" question
It does less well on more complex questions

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[VicHealth @VicHealth]

Hate happens in this space. Threats happen in this space. And that shuts down the ability to share really useful, productive information.

An interesting observation from Professor Sutton.

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[VicHealth @VicHealth]

.@akecmakurchuot notes that social media companies are often happy to ban bigger accounts who've been the victim of repeated, malicious reports without looking into what's really happening.

She says social media companies need to do better.
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[VicHealth @VicHealth]

Akec was shadowbanned by another social media platform for "inciting violence".

As she notes - English might be her third language, but she knows the difference between a conversation and violence

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[VicHealth @VicHealth]

.@akecmakurchuot mentions "privileged social media" - a certain platform that shadowbanned her for wearing a top with an Indigenous flag on it after she got brigaded by people who wanted to take her down.

Unfortunately, Akec is "the queen of the trolls".

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[VicHealth @VicHealth]

Big question: what's the role of tech companies in regulating mis-and-dis information?

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[VicHealth @VicHealth]

Has social media killed the art of healthy debate? @zaraseidler1 asks the panel

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[VicHealth @VicHealth]

.@brianwong_ says that tech companies have a responsibility to protect their users, but we can't rely on them.

It's not just about the consumer or the platform. We need governments to come to the table too.

#whsmelbourne2024

[Caterina Giorgi @catgiorgi]

Prebunking - letting people know the different forms, sources and credibility of information to build literacy before the fact.

Debunking - correcting the record after the fact.

#Misinformationitis

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[VicHealth @VicHealth]

Professor Sutton is not "overly" optimistic about big social media companies taking voluntarily responsibility - private entitities not always acting in our best interest has been a recurring theme here at #whsmelbourne2024

[VicHealth @VicHealth]

Reminder from Professor Sutton: Those first results with "sponsored" on them when you use search engines?

They're all about making money - not about the truth.

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[VicHealth @VicHealth]

📍 consider your source - who's behind it? what's their agenda?
📍 cross check the facts with other sources
📍 communicate responsibility

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[VicHealth @VicHealth]

.@zaraseidler1 says that kids need to be getting media literacy education when they start using social media - until they do, they're really vulnerable.

@teegstar calls it a "health-based approached", and Professor Sutton calls it "pre-bunking"

#whsmelbourne2024