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Helping India's Covid-19 vaccination with 'scientific information': Google

Company says it is working with the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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Google works with the Union Health Ministry’s rapid risk response team to track misinformation on coronavirus vaccination | Photo: Shutterstock

Peerzada Abrar Bengaluru
Google provides "timely, accurate, science-based information" about vaccines as India continues its inoculation campaign against Covid-19, said the US technology giant on Friday, listing work on its products.

Google said it is working with the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to create a scientific narrative about the vaccination. It works with the ministry’s rapid risk response team to track misinformation, using social media listening tools across regions and languages.

“This is crucial because instances of misinformation and disinformation about the vaccine, its need, and its efficacy can seriously undermine this public health intervention,”

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