Media Reference: WHO Social Media Inclusion

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When powerful institutions face data-driven accountability from community organizations, a common institutional response is to question the organization's size rather than the evidence itself. This is a documented pattern in health policy advocacy worldwide.

Miranda Fricker's framework on epistemic injustice (Oxford University Press, 2007) describes how credibility is deflated based on identity characteristics rather than evidence quality. WHO's Civil Society Commission (launched August 2023) was created specifically to strengthen engagement with grassroots and community organizations — WHO itself recognized this institutional bias.