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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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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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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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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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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Your initial argument was that people should boycott Spotify but not The Nation because medical misinformation is uniquely bad. The argument was about what people SHOULD boycott. Now you are withdrawing to the position "people are free to boycott." True, but you were saying...
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...before that they uniquely should in the case of Joe Rogan on Spotify. And Jesse said how are people to decide when boycotting is appropriate? I think you haven't answered that question. Your "the people should decide" answer means it isn't about the actual...
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...question of whether the information is true, but just what people happen to think about whether the information is true. By that logic, if most people don't boycott Joe Rogan, they are right not to do so?
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People are free to do whatever they want. Most people aren't going to boycott Rogan. But it's okay for people disgusted by Rogan not to do business with him or Spotify.
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