I'd be curious what the right positioning or rhetoric would be (cc @noUpside), considering that anti-vaxxers are making it really hard to get the vaccination rate up and prevent spread of the variant (and therefore deaths & hospitalization).
when i wrote about this in march, og misinformation darling ‘plandemic’ had been viewed 8 million times. google’s official resources on the virus had been viewed more than 400 *billion* times. imo the problem isn’t misinfo.https://www.piratewires.com/p/jack-be-nimble-jack-be-quick …
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all the debate around this topic is a misunderstanding of scale. boils down to looking at this stat and weighing it against the few viral stupid posts on vaccineshttps://twitter.com/DylanByers/status/1416139925746032643 …
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It’s not a misunderstanding, we are all aware of scale. The problem isn’t evenly distributed. People “have viewed” (deliberate choice) does not mean people were persuaded, as evidenced by their subsequent actions.
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Misinformation is not the overarching problem. The complete inability to productively reach consensus is the problem, w/misinfo being one input, loss of trust being another, etc. (I have a thing currently in edits on this.) But in the near term, people believing BS ab
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agree trust is the problem, just don’t think a government department of truth will repair that trust
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