Will you trust the Covid vaccine?
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PopeBeanie 2 years, 4 months ago.
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Encoginator, I think you are unaware of just how different and exceptional social media is as a quick and easy way to disseminate clearly disruptive and destructive “false information” which is money making poison especially for facebook and twitter. It is nothing like the moral panic of television or magazines when they came out. Open your eyes. There was virtually no controversy about vaccines in continental Europe before social media and now a considerable percentage of Europeans do not want their children vaccinated because of videos and web-shite posts being passed around (all stuff that produce a lot of clicks and make money for social media). The point is, facebook could easily limit the spread of false information about vaccines, they do limit the spread of false information for other things, especially those that do not make money. They don’t do so with vaccines because doing so wouldn’t be profitable. The effect that it has had on what should be simple and essential solutions to health problems as well as creating political controversy out of thin air, permitting serious foreign election interference, spreading dangerous information in some countries leading to lynch mobs that murder people and permit the quick organisations of violent attacks even in America shouldn’t be ideas so quickly and dismissed as a “moral panic”. I didn’t call for censorship. Their algorithms creates suggestions or highlight other people’s posts and they could easily be tweaked (and have been so in the past) to not easily spread clearly false and dangerous information. If you want to actively search for disinformation then fine, but when it is suggested to people who never showed initial interest in it because it garners emotive money making clicks, it is a super destructive force. Europe is in the process of regulating this and it is an entirely sensible thing to do, especially when these countries will have to pay for the consequences of more people getting sick and dying creating a huge strain on their health system and want to stop foreign election interference. It is super ridiculously stupid not to do so. Other media sources are regulated, there is no reason social media shouldn’t be. Freedom of speech has limits, even in the land of the first amendment.
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