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Facebook is now claiming official CDC.gov links are “False Information”

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Re: Facebook is now claiming official CDC.gov links are “False Information”

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Post by noxer »

vfclists wrote: post #4

Facebook could be right ;) Just because some info appears on a the CDC page doesn't mean it can't be erroneous. It is not as though health authorities have always been correct on every thing, have they?

Either way they play arbiter with no transparency as to how they do it. They mostly outsource the "truth finding" but then pay them so its all a huge mess and simply not what people want them to do. I dont use FB but I would not want HN to decide whats true and what not. If wrong stuff is postedon here we (the user) figure it out just fine.

Re: Facebook is now claiming official CDC.gov links are “False Information”

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Post by 13years »

cpr wrote: post #7

Let's face it, Big Social Media's "disinformation" label is no more than "things that go against the mainstream narrative" these years.

It will always be so. The power to control information is far too tempting to not be subverted for nefarious means.

Re: Facebook is now claiming official CDC.gov links are “False Information”

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Post by SpicyLemonZest »

cbsmith wrote: post #12
mikem170 wrote: post #3

The submitted postimg.cc screenshot had the following cdc.gov link [0], which appears to be flagged as false information. The following text was on that cdc page: > After December 31, 2021, CDC will withdraw the request to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) of the CDC 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel, the assay first introduced in Febr…

Context is king. I can easily imagine this content being used to present false narratives. This is the underlying problem we're dealing with.

Is it? I don't think "people sometimes make wrong arguments" is a problem Facebook should attempt to solve, or could solve if they did attempt it. The problem of fake news is fabricated nonsense, not arguments which end up being flawed upon further thought.

Re: Facebook is now claiming official CDC.gov links are “False Information”

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Post by mfer »

HunOL wrote: post #19
pier25 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter are the carrier, and should be treated as such. It's more nuanced than that because ATT doesn't repeat a phone call it has deemed interesting to millions of other people.

Would be good if social media stop promote some posts and order them in my feed. Make them all chronological. Too many posts? Unsubscribe.

This starts to get to the issue here. FB is not a carrier (like a telephone company). Their business model isn't built around carrying information or broadcasting it.

FB is a content platform who is about making ad revenue. They are crafted around that and how to make that the most profitable possible.

Re: Facebook is now claiming official CDC.gov links are “False Information”

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Post by saurik »

pier25 wrote: post #15
crummybowley wrote: post #6

And this is why Facebook has no business being part of fact checking. While it may look different, this is no different than two folks on the phone getting interrupted by ATT and being told they are incorrect on their assumptions about topic X. Social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter are the carrier, and should be treated as such.

> Social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter are the carrier, and should be treated as such. It's more nuanced than that because ATT doesn't repeat a phone call it has deemed interesting to millions of other people.

We need to differentiate the recommendation algorithm parts of these products from the communication parts. If Facebook is recommending something, that's on them, and if they want to not recommend my content to anyone, so be it; but I should be able to post something seen only by the people who opted in to following me without them getting in the way.

Re: Facebook is now claiming official CDC.gov links are “False Information”

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Post by chmod600 »

pier25 wrote: post #15
crummybowley wrote: post #6

And this is why Facebook has no business being part of fact checking. While it may look different, this is no different than two folks on the phone getting interrupted by ATT and being told they are incorrect on their assumptions about topic X. Social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter are the carrier, and should be treated as such.

> Social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter are the carrier, and should be treated as such. It's more nuanced than that because ATT doesn't repeat a phone call it has deemed interesting to millions of other people.

If everyone involved in the conversation wants to be involved, and no laws are broken, and the platform interferes, then it's censorship.

If there's some kind of algorithm putting the content in front of people who didn't ask for it (e.g. not followers/friends/subscribers/whatever), then you have a point.

Re: Facebook is now claiming official CDC.gov links are “False Information”

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Post by TrevorJ »

pier25 wrote: post #15
crummybowley wrote: post #6

And this is why Facebook has no business being part of fact checking. While it may look different, this is no different than two folks on the phone getting interrupted by ATT and being told they are incorrect on their assumptions about topic X. Social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter are the carrier, and should be treated as such.

> Social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter are the carrier, and should be treated as such. It's more nuanced than that because ATT doesn't repeat a phone call it has deemed interesting to millions of other people.

I'd prefer it if facebook didn't do this either.

Re: Facebook is now claiming official CDC.gov links are “False Information”

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Post by jerkstate »

crummybowley wrote: post #6

And this is why Facebook has no business being part of fact checking. While it may look different, this is no different than two folks on the phone getting interrupted by ATT and being told they are incorrect on their assumptions about topic X. Social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter are the carrier, and should be treated as such.

There really isn’t any such thing as fact checking, only narrative pushing.

Re: Facebook is now claiming official CDC.gov links are “False Information”

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Post by Spooky23 »

crummybowley wrote: post #6

And this is why Facebook has no business being part of fact checking. While it may look different, this is no different than two folks on the phone getting interrupted by ATT and being told they are incorrect on their assumptions about topic X. Social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter are the carrier, and should be treated as such.

Oh please. My 8 year old pulled a similar tactic to get out of doing dishes.
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