The World Economic Forum (WEF) kicks in the new year with its annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, every January. According to the World Economic Forum, the conference “will bring together leaders of governments, businesses and civil society to discuss the state of the world and discuss priorities for the coming year”.1
The theme for 2023 is “Collaboration in a Fragmented World,” and the World Economic Forum states that “the world today is at a critical inflection point. The sheer number of ongoing crises calls for bold collective action.”2 What will this bold collective action bring? A key theme being discussed at one of the sessions was combating “misinformation,”3 Also known as suppressing and censoring all objections.
WEF is a unelected global organization whose leaders are self-appointed. How it intends to define the misinformation it targets as one of its key initiatives for 2023 is unknown, but it is called a “cumulative ‘threat’ black swan event”. In its description of the Countering Threats Conference in the Black Swan Era, it states:4
“As black swan events proliferate, threats once viewed as outliers are becoming commonplace. The situation is compounded by access to advanced technology and weaponry by a wide range of actors, as well as the growing ability to spread misinformation. How do we begin to anticipate the unpredictability of mitigating and responding to security threats posed by black swan events?”
In December 2022, the World Economic Forum had already begun damage control of its Davos meeting, saying in another post that it had “withstood criticism as a gathering of elites and that in recent years the forum had become a hub for disinformation campaigns.” Target.”5 As Reclaim the Net points out, this suggests that “the organization believes that criticism of the World Economic Forum and challenges to the prevailing Covid-19 narrative is misinformation.”6
