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3.3 million Americans is roughly 1% of the US population. I bet the total number of members in FB antivax groups is the same or higher.
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3.3 million Americans is roughly 1% of the US population. I bet the total number of members in FB antivax groups is the same or higher.
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So is he saying fb is promoting to get vaccinated or fb is not promoting to get vaccinated?
Anything I see on fb that's contrary to getting vaccinated gets took down.
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It does now that they’ve been called out for about a year. Wouldn’t say “everything either”. Far from it
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It got canceled for the third time. They have to find a new venue again. Also, it is absolutely hilarious that this event is free, but if you want a photo with them, it's only $250.
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So in other words, he saying fb is not doing a fast enough job to take down the contrary of getting vaccinated?
Still kind of lost on what's in attempt to be conveyed.
"Fb is killing people." -joe Biden
But fb doesnt condone/promote/or parade anti vaxx.....
Soooooo?
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It’s not “FB itself is killing people”, it’s “the use of Facebook and the lack of actual guidelines for usage has lead to disinformation, which lead to people dead”. I think those are very different. FB has been caught in lies about not being swayed by anyone in the past. They also allow hate group to exist within them.
no, I don’t have the quick answer but FB has caused many problems in society, or at the very least is the tool of choice and they refuse to do anything about it until they’re called out
add to that their programming built to bombard you with the BS if you click it once
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How Facebook Helped the Anti-Vaxxer Movement Go Viral
New reports have implicated Facebook and other social media platforms for their role in the spread of anti-vaccine propaganda.
psmag.com
Note that the article is from 2019. (There was an outbreak of measles due to the rise of antivax communities on social media, and then Covid happened).
The problem with disinformation is that it's like a snowball going down the hill: the only way to stop it is at the top, by shutting down the tiny niche of people spreading around falsehoods. You wait too long, and the only way to stop it when it gets large enough is to threaten to punish antivaxxers for spreading BS, which obviously feeds the conspiracy theory "the government doesn't want people to know and is disappearing concerned citizens..."
So yeah, Facebook/YouTube/Instagram have been killing people by not controlling the antivax BS that has been spewed and propagated on their platforms for years.
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“You gonna believe what da liberal media has to say?!?!???”
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How Facebook Helped the Anti-Vaxxer Movement Go Viral
New reports have implicated Facebook and other social media platforms for their role in the spread of anti-vaccine propaganda.
Note that the article is from 2019. (There was an outbreak of measles due to the rise of antivax communities on social media, and then Covid happened).
The problem with disinformation is that it's like a snowball going down the hill: the only way to stop it is at the top, by shutting down the tiny niche of people spreading around falsehoods. You wait too long, and the only way to stop it when it gets large enough is to threaten to punish antivaxxers for spreading BS, which obviously feeds the conspiracy theory "the government doesn't want people to know and is disappearing concerned citizens..."
So yeah, Facebook/YouTube/Instagram have been killing people by not controlling the antivax BS that has been spewed and propagated on their platforms for years.
Just so viewers are clear. I'm not pro fb at all, just want to get a better understanding on this specific topic.
Other than image searches and key stoke alerts, i dont see any major social media platforms having a 100% hold on it. Theres more users than monitors.
Thanks guys for your replies. I've personally seen anti vaxx info get removed from fb. So in my eyes there doing Something which is better than Nothing. It just doesnt sit right with me if Biden says(example) fb needs to clean their room when fb is in the midst of already doing it. With an addition of, once one anit vax post is removed another is back up in seconds.
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Would’ve had people in the 1700s talkin about Constance in my knitting circle says the smallpox vaccine has telegram pulses in them
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"Celebrating too early" should be a recurring Democratic attack slogan aimed at Republicans.
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At this point, the most effective thing FB can do is remove people/groups who post antivaxx stuff. We all know how that's gonna go though: the Right is going to use it to "prove" that FB is anti-free-speech, and they'll lose advertising revenue with the amount of people who leave/boycott the platform. Whatever controls they have set up right now is just about PR and managing the company's image.
What we're not even touching is the fact that FB has been encouraging ALL aspects of right-wing rhetoric because they became scared of what the Trump administration could do...
... to the point that they've essentially created a massive RW echo chamber.
Facebook executives weren't happy when their own data showed it perpetuates a right-wing echo chamber
After Facebook acquired a tool to measure user engagement, it repeatedly demonstrated that the platform had become a right-wing echo chamber.
www.businessinsider.com
Facebook Is Dismantling CrowdTangle Team Because It Showed the Platform to Be a Right-Wing Echo Chamber
CrowdTangle, the analytics tool for social media posts that Facebook acquired five years ago, may not be long for this world, and its mostly independent team within Facebook is now being broken up.
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It's all PR.
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Quick question, what is the likelihood that Schumer can get his federal decriminalization and removal from Schedule 1 category of a whole plan passed?
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A Trump supporter who stormed the Capitol told book author the rioters weren't there to 'steal things' or 'do damage': 'We were just there to overthrow the government'
Saundra Kiczenski, 56, from Michigan, told WSJ reporter Michael Bender that she was "confident" that Trump won the 2020 election.
www.businessinsider.com
bold strategy there let’s see if it works out
