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

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Post by SquareWheel »

underseacables wrote: post #62
nixpulvis wrote: post #53

OK, random thought experiment. As someone without a facebook it's hard for me to evaluate, but how much damage would really be caused if facebook just disappeared one day?

Absolutely zero. People would find another way to communicate, socialize, or whatever. The loss of Facebook would be a loss of jobs and income for people, but that’s it. Facebook serves no positive purpose in society, and it seems the best thing a person can do, is to delete their Facebook account.

Zero damage? No way. Millions of people would lose contact with friends and family that they have no other connections with. Companies that depend on Facebook advertising would disappear. People would be locked out of OAuth accounts on thousands of websites.

It would be catastrophic.

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

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Post by acdha »

PaulDavisThe1st wrote: post #37
clipradiowallet wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

someone on facebook: "SEE! THE CDC/FDA/CIA/IRS HAS BEEN LYING TO US ALL ALONG! THEIR TEST FOR THE VIRUS WAS RIGGED! NOW THEY'RE TRYING TO HIDE THAT BY TELLING EVERYONE TO USE A DIFFERENT TEST! DON'T BE A SHEEP, KNOW TEH TURTH AND SET YOURSELF FREE!" and then cites this link from the CDC as "context"

Anyone flagging this because they think it's an exaggeration, well, I envy you not having direct counterexamples in your immediate family. Paul is almost pitch-perfect explaining posts which real people make in all seriousness.

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

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Post by 13years »

manofmanysmiles wrote: post #33
jtbayly wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I assume it has been claimed on FB that this is proof that the flu didn't disappear but just got misdiagnosed as Covid, and/or that the Covid tests results couldn't be trusted at all, hence they have been withdrawn.

How should this be interpreted? Isn’t implying that the test can’t tell the difference between flu and covid? If that’s true, then, how can we be sure that flu hasn’t been misdiagnosed? What percentage of Covid cases were classified using PCR tests?

Yes, it does state that. However, there is the word 'and' between detection and differentiation.

The original could not detect, so therefore differentiation is a moot point.

Also, the test for flu was a separate test. So it would have had no effect on the lower flu incidence assuming we didn't test for flu at a lesser rate.

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

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Post by mensetmanusman »

slg wrote: post #36
jerkstate wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Can you fact check the flat Earth theories? Sometimes there is objective truth and sometimes there isn't.

The earth feels flat, and feelings are objective (especially in this post-truth society) ;)

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

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Post by williamscales »

SquareWheel wrote: post #81
underseacables wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Absolutely zero. People would find another way to communicate, socialize, or whatever. The loss of Facebook would be a loss of jobs and income for people, but that’s it. Facebook serves no positive purpose in society, and it seems the best thing a person can do, is to delete their Facebook account.

Zero damage? No way. Millions of people would lose contact with friends and family that they have no other connections with. Companies that depend on Facebook advertising would disappear. People would be locked out of OAuth accounts on thousands of websites. It would be catastrophic.

> Millions of people would lose contact with friends and family that they have no other connections with.

Not at all.

> Companies that depend on Facebook advertising would disappear.

Good.

> People would be locked out of OAuth accounts on thousands of websites.

OK? If you were federating your auth via Facebook it was only a matter of time until you were locked out for one arbitrary reason or another. This just seems like an acceleration of a good thing.

> It would be catastrophic.

From your perspective, I can see that. But there are other perspectives out that that are not completely beholden to Facebook.

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

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Post by 908B64B197 »

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.

I bet there are a minority of accounts that are responsible for a lot of spam/fake news. Time for Facebook to start shadow banning?

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

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Post by decremental »

ben_w wrote: post #39
chmod600 wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Unless I put her account on snooze, I regularly see posts that my (literally) abolish-money/anarcho-communist ex shares, even those from groups which I have repeatedly marked as “block all content from this group”.

So just unfollow her. It sounds like you have some major issues with her personally anyway so how is this a failure by the platform and not just you subjecting yourself to a negative situation?

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

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Post by Retric »

justanotherguy0 wrote: post #56
kspacewalk2 wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Facebook is a private company that allows you to sign up to use its wholly-owned platform, and it's allowed to censor for whatever clever/asinine reasons it comes up with. Your only recourse is to disengage.

At&t is a private company, and it isn't allowed to censor your calls for whatever clever or asinine reasons it comes up with.

AT&T is highly regulated, what they can and can’t do has little to do with the average company.

That said they are allowed to do quite a bit such as blocking calls between individuals.

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

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Post by jerkstate »

slg wrote: post #36
jerkstate wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Can you fact check the flat Earth theories? Sometimes there is objective truth and sometimes there isn't.

Please go find an example of a fact-checker checking something that can be proven scientifically as objective truth. It doesn’t happen.
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