I’m having trouble understanding how Biden calling out Facebook for vaccine misinformation is “censorship”.
Getting some serious “cancel culture” vibes from that response.
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Facebook is a haven for vaccine misinformation, that misinformation is harmful, and that’s one of the many bad things which Facebook is doing which is worth calling out.
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The issue is that these tools will inevitably be used against progressives, when it is politically convenient to do so. There are better, community-managed ways to remove harmful information, but FB won’t use those
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Eg: allowing users more control on what they see in their timelines, and in what order, community-managed block lists that people can subscribe to, limiting forwarding/retweets.
There’s so many possibilities beyond centralized control
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Those are all interesting things to have, but the problem is tools like that can’t help stave dangerous vaccine misinformation circulating among self-selected groups of people willingly receiving it
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They'll never be able to repair the harm they caused pretending masks didn't work or required formal training in a misguided attempt to save them for health care workers. That was the government + health agencies and is a major basis for the misinformation spread by others now.
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Similarly, why is the FDA taking so ridiculously long to give formal approval to the mRNA vaccines? One of the main scare tactics that I see is pointing out they haven't given them non-emergency approval yet, which is true. It has been a long time with many millions getting it.
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Shouldn't there be more than enough data at this point? It seems like their bureaucracy is only capable of using the data from their own studies rather than the massive real world usage. Not dragging their heels any more on that would help a lot. It's pretty ridiculous now.
There's also now a big push to downplay effectiveness being fully vaccinated.
CDC, WHO, etc. should really hire some competent sociologists and statisticians.
It was entirely possible to avoid masks and vaccination becoming a political thing if it wasn't played so stupidly.
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CDC, WHO, FDA, etc. are clearly incompetent and often dishonest. So, who are people going to listen to?
At this point, they pretty much have to pay Trump to do a series of ads telling his supporters to get vaccinated while taking credit for developing them. I think it'd work.