Facebook overrun by COVID vaccine lies even as it denied fueling hesitancy, report says
Did 901 people die of COVID-19 in a single day in Florida?
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) September 10, 2021
USA TODAY's @baylisswagner looked into how data interpretation went very wrong for 10,000+ Facebook users. https://t.co/D49AuMkwyV
Last month, WaPo reported that Facebook was allowing prominent Republicans to raise money by associating migrants with the surge of coronavirus infections in the US.
— JM Rieger (@RiegerReport) September 17, 2021
The claim had been rejected by doctors and fact-checkers at the time.https://t.co/yEEti2JIZn
I wrote about the Facebook circle of life:
— Will Oremus (@WillOremus) September 16, 2021
– Build problematic systems
– Research their flaws and find serious problems
– Bury the findings to avoid bad press
– Get even worse press when the findings are leaked
– Change nothing https://t.co/UUxw7qYG08
Another devastating story about Facebook. You think you know the worst of it, but there’s always more. https://t.co/YubMs2uVl3
— Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) September 17, 2021
Can't stress how wild the ivermectin Facebook groups have become. So many people insisting to each other to never go to an ER, in part because they might not get ivermectin, but sometimes because they fear nurses are killing them on purpose "for the insurance money."
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) September 13, 2021
Unreal: "One potential solution remains off the table: holding high-profile users to the same standards as everyone else." https://t.co/VMWWNjbfmZ
— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan) September 13, 2021
"It's important to overcome the message that Facebook has been trying to project that we really can't tell whether social media use has anything to do with political divisiveness and partisan hatred. That just doesn't match up with facts.” https://t.co/RV2hnOahf6
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) September 13, 2021
From today’s @ReliableSources – broadcast exclusive: new NYU study shows that Misinformation from partisan news sources gets 6x more clicks than real news on Facebook. 68% of engagement from far-right sources comes from misinfo – 36% from far-left sources. https://t.co/wW4MCOsw5X
— John Avlon (@JohnAvlon) September 5, 2021
I'll say this once again: @Facebook could end the anti-vax death cult in this nation tomorrow. It's not hard.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) September 2, 2021
They know who the sources of this poison are, and could shut them down with a few clicks and save countless lives.
But they won't.
Two-thirds of all Facebook users who join extremist groups are guided to them by Facebook itself https://t.co/xWUa7V1J20
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) August 30, 2021
Sad! 