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Facebook cracks down on vaccine misinformation
In a blog post, the Menlo Park, Calif. company said it will reject any ads containing misinformation about vaccines, remove any targeted advertising options like 'vaccine controversies,' and will no longer show or recommend content containing this type of misinformation on Instagram Explore or hashtag pages."
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Combatting Vaccine Misinformation
We are working to tackle vaccine misinformation on Facebook by reducing its distribution and providing people with authoritative information on the topic.
[...] Leading global health organizations, such as the World Health Organization and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, have publicly identified verifiable vaccine hoaxes. If these vaccine hoaxes appear on Facebook, we will take action against them.
For example, if a group or Page admin posts this vaccine misinformation, we will exclude the entire group or Page from recommendations, reduce these groups and Pages’ distribution in News Feed and Search, and reject ads with this misinformation.
We also believe in providing people with additional context so they can decide whether to read, share, or engage in conversations about information they see on Facebook. We are exploring ways to give people more accurate information from expert organizations about vaccines at the top of results for related searches, on Pages discussing the topic, and on invitations to join groups about the topic. We will have an update on this soon.
We are fully committed to the safety of our community and will continue to expand on this work.
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Saturday March 23 2019, @05:42AM (3 children)
I'm proposing a mechanism by which if they can dominate they may have earned the right to control, yes. Because that seems like reality to me. Which is why I'm damned sure that in this instance they should never earn that ability, unlikely as that may be. And surely there are plenty of bad ideas, and the vast majority of them are not clear cut - I think that we agree on. For me, that's why I'm not saying throw critical thinking or logic out the window (far from it) and trust all to the might of the majority every time. It reminds me just a tad of the Heinlein bit about democracy and autocracy. Neither make a lot of sense on their own. But one thing that does seem clear is that societies do exist and it will exert themselves. However society exerts itself there are groups which should not or must not gain control. And it would surprise me if most of us don't have some list of who those groups are. I don't think I believe any single method will or should direct that process. Not logic. Not emotion. Not unlimited freedom nor absolute autocracy. Not that either you or I can control that.
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(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday March 23 2019, @01:25PM (2 children)
Or even if they haven't earned the right, but just took over the mechanism.
Perception != reality.
If such a tendency existed in the first place, we wouldn't have had things like the Nazi takeover of Germany.
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Monday March 25 2019, @03:01PM
Which might be prima facie evidence that they have earned the right, in the sense of survival of the fittest - if they gain a majority they have the control.
Perception ∧ reality for most values of both.
Or the Nazi takeover of Germany and the memory of the holocaust is what feeds the desire to ensure that they cannot earn the ability again. And what makes such mechanisms sadly necessary, dangerous as they are.
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(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Monday March 25 2019, @03:16PM
On the other other hand, I may be wrong. [soylentnews.org]
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