Later, WHO started claiming the exact opposite. Now anyone who created a video previously will also get taken down.
How exactly do you propose deciding what's misinformation and what's not?
This is one of those completely false things that people only believe is true by repetition. Go back and actually read the full set of WHO statements in mid-January. They have a bunch of statements saying that nations should get prepared, one saying that specific studies haven’t yet found hard evidence for person-to-person transmission (because at that point most of the cases they’d managed to find were tied to the market). The WHO never, ever said that it can’t be transmitted, and they absolutely never said that people should do nothing about COVID-19. They were urging nations to act for months before they actually did.
"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🇨🇳." https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152
"WHO advises against the application of any travel or trade restrictions on China based on the information currently available on this event." https://www.who.int/csr/don/12-january-2020-novel-coronaviru...
"The Committee does not recommend any travel or trade restriction based on the current information available.
Countries must inform WHO about travel measures taken, as required by the IHR. Countries are cautioned against actions that promote stigma or discrimination, in line with the principles of Article 3 of the IHR." https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/30-01-2020-statement-on...
https://www.who.int/news-room/articles-detail/updated-who-re...
Then the question becomes, hows does the government decide what is and what isn’t misinformation? The overwhelming answer should be ‘government shouldn’t be determining that’.
We have to be careful with this kind of stuff.