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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 omgwtfbbq »

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.

>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.

That's absurd

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

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Post by unanswered »

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just got misdiagnosed as Covid, and/or that the Covid tests results couldn't be trusted at all, hence they have been withdrawn.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?

> If that’s true, then, how can we be sure that flu hasn’t been misdiagnosed?

Because I haven't seen anything on Facebook, or self-censoring HN for that matter, validating those claims. So they must be but only false but really out-there wacky conspiracy theories.

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

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Post by unanswered »

vfclists wrote: post #34
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?

Unrelated question: What happens when your HN karma drops to zero?

Dang bans you for wrongthink long before then.

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

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Post by justanotherguy0 »

kspacewalk2 wrote: post #32
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.

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.

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

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Post by stale2002 »

kspacewalk2 wrote: post #32
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.

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.

There are other recourses actually.

The other recourses are that our lawmakers threaten them with law changes until these platforms start acting like platforms.

I am sure that we can come up with some laws that are constitutional, if we are creative enough, that will damage these companies.

Lots of people hate these platforms these days. We'll pass some law, eventually.

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

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Post by 13years »

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 problem is who decides. Once you create a fact checking entity, it will decide for itself what are object truths.

Within a fact checking entity you essentially have the same issue as regulatory capture.

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

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Post by underseacables »

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”.

Why are you still friends with your ex ?
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