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

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Post by seriousquestion »

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.

Frankly, does anyone have business in fact checking at this point? Who checks the fact checkers? I can't think of any source that hasn't repeatedly bungled information over the past year. What we have is consensus checking, at best.

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

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Post by babesh »

13years wrote: post #22
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.

It isn't just the social media giants. It applies to most if not all the corporate giants. Google's search and YouTube, Apple news, Netflix, Disney, etc...

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

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Post by jackweirdy »

clipradiowallet wrote: post #17
cbsmith wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

> This is the underlying problem we're dealing with. What's the underlying problem? How are we dealing with it? As someone who does not and has never had a facebook account, I have very little context to understand what you are talking about.

I have seen this sentence of the link:

> CDC encourages laboratories to consider adoption of a multiplexed method that can facilitate detection and differentiation of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses

Used to claim that many positive test results were not covid cases, but were flu cases.

This _isn’t_ the case — the CDC is now recommending tests that can check for multiple infections rather than just one.

But the wording does leave it open to being a possibility, on first reading that may even be a sensible assumption.

So the problem is complicated —

1) this is an official and authoritative source posting wording that’s explaining what’s changing with ambiguity about what the status quo is.

2) Amid that ambiguity, people are posting information that is not true, using this as a source.

3) Facebook’s response is the “Fake News” label, when while the source has its faults it is not Fake or News, it’s just having meaning attributed to it that’s not there

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

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Post by dumbmachine »

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.

By adding content to user's newsfeed, they ( facebook's algorithm ) have made a explicit decision to share the piece of content and implicit decision that they deem the post safe for sharing. In that case shouldn't a speaker operator be responsible for the voices they amplify?

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

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Post by forz877 »

iammisc wrote: post #2

Facebook is a pseudo government with sovereinty over a type of resource that we have fully yet to understand as a species.

Facebook isn't the only source of information, and in fact, I'd argue, more misinformation exists because of facebook, not more control.

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

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Post by Fellshard »

w0m wrote: post #40
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.

replace "mainstream narrative" with "X narrative" and you have a point. 'mainstream' is meaningless.

At this point, by sheer institutional volume, 'mainstream' means 'American East Coast Left-liberal'.
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