Kia ora Erika
 
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From: Erika Whittome <[FOI #28455 email]>
Sent: Friday, 20 September 2024 05:46
To: OIA Requests <[email address]>
Subject: Official Information request - MoH and YouTube misinformation on
Covid 19
 
Dear Ministry of Health,
I refer you to
[6]https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlo...

In this previous OIA, is an agreement with YouTube that says:
On Maps, our policies prohibit misinformation about prevention,
transmission and treatment services, as well as allegations that an
individual contracted COVID-19 at a particular location. These types of
contributed content will be removed.

Misinformation Definition
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Would you please share the criteria, definitions, keywords, meta data
tags, handbooks and any manuals on this “misinformation” which is for the
disease’s prevention and treatment services.

I am requesting all the information on how MoH and YouTube determined
whether prevention and treatment that google had purview of was deemed
“misinformation”.

Yours faithfully,

Erika Whittome

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Kia ora Erika,
Please find attached our response to your official information request.

Ngā mihi 

  

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Kia ora Erika,

 

Thank you for your request for official information. The Ministry's
reference number for your request is: H2024059008.  

 

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2024 onwards will take into account the summer holidays (25 December 2024
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Ngā mihi 
 
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------------------- Original Message -------------------
From: Erika Whittome <[email address]>; 
Received: Fri Dec 20 2024 07:37:26 GMT+1300 (New Zealand Daylight Time)
To: OIA Requests <[email address]>; OIA <[email address]>; 
Subject: Official Information request - Guidance document for PCBUs and
workers - removal from MoH website

Dear Ministry of Health,
A document called "Health & Disability Worker Vaccinations Order
Guidance document for PCBUs and workers" is dated Oct 2021 and was
published by the Ministry of Health 
[3]https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlo...

The MoH has removed the document from its website I assume in 2022.  The
publication is no longer on the MoH website.

Would you kindly share: 
-all the memos, correspondence, advice, meetings etc for the decision to
remove this document from the website 
- the subsequent advice that replaced this particular document
-the notifications and/or communications to all health and disability
PCBUs and workers that this October 2021 dated advice was now no longer
applicable.

Yours faithfully,

Erika Whittome

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Kia ora Erika,

 

Thank you for your request for official information. The Ministry's
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Ngā mihi 
 
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[2]Ministry of Health information releases 

 
 
The MoH signed an agreement with YouTube that says:
On Maps, our policies prohibit misinformation about prevention,
transmission and treatment services, as well as allegations that an
individual contracted COVID-19 at a particular location. These types of
contributed content will be removed.

However the Ministry has not provided the information on the criteria for
"misinformation".

Would you kindly ask Youtube given the chief legal officer of the MoH,
Phil Knipe signed agreement with Youtube?

Yours sincerely,

Erika Whittome

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Kia ora Erika,

  

 Thank you for your request for official information. The Ministry's
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Kia ora Erika,

 

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If you have any queries related to this request, please do not hesitate to
get in touch. 

 

Ngā mihi 

 
OIA Services Team 

[2]Ministry of Health information releases 
 
Dear OIA Requests,

The MoH signed an agreement with YouTube that says:
On Maps, our policies prohibit misinformation about prevention,
transmission and treatment services, as well as allegations that an
individual contracted COVID-19 at a particular location. These types of
contributed content will be removed.

However the Ministry has not provided the information on the criteria for
"misinformation".

Would you kindly ask Youtube given the chief legal officer of the MoH,
Phil Knipe signed agreement with Youtube?

Yours sincerely,

Erika Whittome

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Kia ora Erika,

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Kia ora Erika

 

Please find attached a letter regarding your request for information.

 

Ngā mihi

 

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Manatū Hauora (the Ministry of Health) stands by the decision made in
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informed under section 28(3) of the Act, you have the right to ask the
Ombudsman to review any decisions made under your requests. The Ombudsman
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From: Erika Whittome <[FOI #28455 email]>
Sent: Saturday, 25 January 2025 07:23
To: OIA Requests <[email address]>
Subject: Re: Response to your request for information, reference:
H2024059037 CRM:0449154

 

Dear OIA Requests,

You have supplied a definition of "misinformation" from the Oxford
dictionary about something being true or false.

However this definition is different from Youtube's one. Youtube's one
mentions a "consensus", not true or false.  It also mentions community
standards.

I will share an  example, I shared that Medsafe don't know if the vaccine
will reduce transmission which was taken down as "misinformation" despite
Medsafe publishing this statement here
[3]https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlo...

Is it fair to say that the MoH has no definition of "Misinformation" and
that this function was delegated to Youtube? Therefore the requested
information does not exist or is not held within the MoH?

Yours sincerely,

Erika Whittome

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Kia ora Erika

  

 Please find attached a letter regarding your request for information.

  

 Ngā mihi

  

 OIA Services Team

 Manatū Hauora | Ministry of Health

 M[1]inistry of Health information releases 

  
 
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Ombudsman to review any decisions made under your requests. The Ombudsman
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Ngā mihi   

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From: Erika Whittome <[FOI #28455 email]>
Sent: Saturday, 25 January 2025 07:23
To: OIA Requests <[email address]>
Subject: Re: Response to your request for information, reference:
H2024059037 CRM:0449154
 
Dear OIA Requests,

You have supplied a definition of "misinformation" from the Oxford
dictionary about something being true or false.

However this definition is different from Youtube's one. Youtube's one
mentions a "consensus", not true or false.  It also mentions community
standards.

I will share an  example, I shared that Medsafe don't know if the vaccine
will reduce transmission which was taken down as "misinformation" despite
Medsafe publishing this statement here
[3]https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlo...

Is it fair to say that the MoH has no definition of "Misinformation" and
that this function was delegated to Youtube? Therefore the requested
information does not exist or is not held within the MoH?

Yours sincerely,

Erika Whittome

-----Original Message-----

Kia ora Erika

  

 Please find attached a letter regarding your request for information.

  

 Ngā mihi

  

 OIA Services Team

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Kia ora Erika, 

 

Thank you for your request under the Official Information Act 1982 (the
Act), received by the Ministry of Health on 7 February 2025 You requested:

 

I refer to your advice of 1st Dec 2021 "Our enforcement approach during
the COVID-19 pandemic. Our inspectors are authorised enforcement officers
under the COVID-19 Public Health Response Act 2020 (COVID-19 legislation)
and its Orders. Their role is to enforce COVID-19 legislation requirements
for work and workplaces."

 

The reference number for your request is H2025060831 As required under the
Act, the Ministry will endeavour to respond to your request no later than
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Ngā mihi 

  

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Kia ora Erika

 

Thank you for your email. The Ministry of Health - Manatū Hauora stands by
its decision and has nothing further to add. 

 

You may be interested in the COVID-19 Trends and Insights Reports December
2021 - September 2022 which is publicly available here:
[1]www.health.govt.nz/information-releases/covid-19-trends-and-insights-reports-december-2021-september-2022. 

 

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From: Erika Whittome <[email address]>
Sent: Tuesday, 25 February 2025 06:08
To: OIA Requests <[email address]>
Subject: Re: Response to your request for information, ref H2025059434
CRM:0449256

 

Dear OIA Requests,

I have lodged a complaint with the Ombudsman about this information not
being supplied.

Yours sincerely,

Erika Whittome

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 Kia ora Erika

  

  

  

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Team
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