Look, yes, it's hard but we can distinguish against self-serving, profit-driven quackery/actually dangerous advice *and* genuine scientific disagreement. WHO is not The Oracle; the science of a pandemic is evolving. WHO itself is evolving its views.https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1252715349079777280 …
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Platforms shouldn't fight the last war. If fighting misinformation and papering over all disagreement get conflated, we won't be in a good place. Have y'all ever seen the way real scientists argue things out? It's very different than quackery or selling vitamins to "cure" COVID.
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Machine Pun Kelly
A quick clarification saying that will solve the problem. It’s not a minor concern—it was so hard to publicly contradict the WHO at first, even with evidence. I saw stuff taken down for advocating for masks because it got conflated with other things.https://twitter.com/kellyscaletta/status/1252736098268299265 …
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Here are a whole mess of videos contradicting the WHO: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=world+health+organization+wrong …
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She should clarify! I've seen such pronouncements get out of hand.
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She was pretty clear in the video. She literally explained it by saying things like vitamin C and turmeric don't cure coronavirus.
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Those are the things...uhm...take vitamin C...uhm...take Tumeric...thos will cure you. Those are the things that are examples of what would be a violation of our policy. Anything that would go against World Health Organization recommendations would be a violation of our policy.
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Yeah, and that last sentence needs clarification. It's not clear to me that it only refers to Vitamin C etc. They want to fight misinformation, very good. They want external authorities, which I understand but that needs clarification.
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Misinformation is you taking that sentence out of context and trying to present it as something other than what it was.
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I will be super happy to be corrected!
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1. It's in the context of the video you shared. 2. There are videos on YouTube of people criticizing the WHO. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=world+health+organization+wrong … What more do you need?
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CLEARLY, the conversation was about pedaling false cures, no the WHO.
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