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A new pandemic prevention initiative by the World Health Organization will rely on “social listening surveillance systems” to identify “rumors and misinformation,” War Room can reveal.The initiative – Preparedness and Resilience for Emerging Threats (PRET) – seeks to “guide countries in pandemic planning” while “incorporat[ing] the latest tools and approaches for shared learning and collective action established during the COVID-19 pandemic.”Internal documents from the United Nations (UN) agency, however, reveal a variety of invasive tactics deployed to suppress the spread of alleged “misinformation.” The WHO is pushing for member states – including the U.S. – to adopt these suggestions when...

Pret a Manger introduced female character Annie alongside a male snack Godfrey but decided to rebrand them as gingerbread biscuits. Lovers of the snack have blasted the sandwich chain and labelled it PC madness. Annoyed customers took to Twitter to vent their frustrations with many asking why they just couldn’t be called a gingerbread man and gingerbread woman. One posted: “The world is going mad it’s a biscuit. “We will end up calling them ‘the gingerbread treat shaped like a person that you can have one of once a week as they are too high in calories for a daily...