It's very hard to tell what causes the most damage. GMO crops can save countles people from starvation, and it's very hard to run counterfactuals about what would or wouldn't happen without them in a given place. Same with the ? of the exact causal effect of vaccine misinfohttps://twitter.com/jbrenner2000/status/1487480454198476804 …
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Replying to @jessesingal
Isn't the pandemic still going on? Aren't thousands of people dying from it every day? Haven't nearly a million Americans died from Covid? Spreading false information in that situation is different than making false & refutable claims during normal political times.
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Jeet, your outlet referenced the "attempted murder" of Jacob Blake, said he was 'unarmed,' and said the people Rittenhouse shot were 'unarmed.' Such misinfo surely contributed to $1b - $2b in rioting and dozens of deaths. Deplatform The Nation or just these authors?pic.twitter.com/JkOOw7dXLR
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Replying to @jessesingal
Weird what about-isms since the crucial point that medical misinformation in the midst of a pandemic is different than other types of misinformation.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
Okay, so in your view we'll have a panel decide which sorts of misinformation are okay, and why, and this panel will decide that The Nation's misinformation -- largely delivered while people were being killed and blocks burned down in rioting -- isn't severe enough?
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Replying to @jessesingal
What panel? I think Spotify is a private company and people are free to boycott them if they object to spread of medical information during a pandemic.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
So if a newstand stopped carrying The Nation because of this, your response would be to shrug and say "That's totally fair"? I feel like you would accuse them of making a politicized decision?
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Newsstand sales of The Nation (or any magazine of ideas) are pretty minimal, so this seems moot. I'm pretty sure there are people who don't read it because of its politics. You're free to boycott the Nation, just as others are free to boycott Spotify.
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