Facebook doesn't plan to take strong action against anti-vaccination posts
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Re: Facebook doesn't plan to take strong action against anti-vaccination posts
#2"If someone is pointing out a case where a vaccine caused harm or that they're worried about it — you know, that's a difficult thing to say from my perspective that you shouldn't be allowed to express at all."
Where I'm from, we call that misinformation.
Re: Facebook doesn't plan to take strong action against anti-vaccination posts
#3Every day that passes, I worry more and more that we've naively entrusted too much to Zuckerberg to do what's "right."
I look forward to whatever platform can figure out how to provide a viable alternative and thrive.
Re: Facebook doesn't plan to take strong action against anti-vaccination posts
#4"If someone is pointing out a case where a vaccine caused harm or that they're worried about it — you know, that's a difficult thing to say from my perspective that you shouldn't be allowed to express at all." Where I'm from, we call that misinformation.
Someone’s opinion is misinformation?
Re: Facebook doesn't plan to take strong action against anti-vaccination posts
#5Controversy breeds clicks and pageviews which drive advertising income. As long as that cycle does not get broken you can expect a lot more misery from that particular corner.
Re: Facebook doesn't plan to take strong action against anti-vaccination posts
#6' "It's true that partisan content often has kind of a higher percent of people ... engaging with it, commenting on it, liking it," Zuckerberg told Axios. '
Hmm, no vested interests there for sure! /s
Re: Facebook doesn't plan to take strong action against anti-vaccination posts
#7"If someone is pointing out a case where a vaccine caused harm or that they're worried about it — you know, that's a difficult thing to say from my perspective that you shouldn't be allowed to express at all." Where I'm from, we call that misinformation.
Someone’s opinion is misinformation?
When it's an all-caps, MY DAUGHTER HAS AUTISM BECAUSE OF [X] VACCINE
I mean, that's misinformation. When you know that no medical literature supports the idea that autism is caused by vaccine, and you still spread it...
Re: Facebook doesn't plan to take strong action against anti-vaccination posts
#8Every day that passes, I worry more and more that we've naively entrusted too much to Zuckerberg to do what's "right." I look forward to whatever platform can figure out how to provide a viable alternative and thrive.
"We" didn't entrust him. The users -- those blind, piteous, sorrowful, clearly-very-bored people -- trust him.
What's the use of worrying about him, or them? Just quit the site!
p.s. also hi Brian! chance encounter..
Re: Facebook doesn't plan to take strong action against anti-vaccination posts
#9"If someone is pointing out a case where a vaccine caused harm or that they're worried about it — you know, that's a difficult thing to say from my perspective that you shouldn't be allowed to express at all." Where I'm from, we call that misinformation.
The front page of the NYT today is about AstraZeneca halting their trials because of a patient’s adverse reaction to the vaccine.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/09/world/covid-19-coronaviru...
Re: Facebook doesn't plan to take strong action against anti-vaccination posts
#10You would hope that the custodian of the world's most popular communication platform would have a greater sense of obligation to the social responsibility that comes with it. Unfortunately we don't live in that world, and Zuckerberg continues choose dollars over lasting damage to the standards of discourse. He is the Murdoch of the 21st century, tearing at the social fabric in pursuit of profits and facilitating the spread of foreign disinformation if it increases engagement metrics.