'The reality of using censorship to fight 'misinformation' is that 'experts' lie or get things wrong, and therefore, real debates get stifled. This leaves everyone dumber and less informed...' -ZacharyFaria
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged this in an interview talking about how the problem of “misinformation” is “a really tricky one because there are things that are kind of obviously false, that are maybe factual, but may not be harmful.” Zuckerberg wondered whether you would “censor someone for just being wrong if there’s no kind of harm implication of what they’re doing.
To provide an example, he used the pandemic. “Just take some of the stuff around COVID earlier on in the pandemic where there were real health implications, but there hadn’t been time to fully vet a bunch of the scientific assumptions,” Zuckerberg said. “And unfortunately, I think a lot of the establishment on that waffled on a bunch of facts and asked for a bunch of things to be censored that, in retrospect, ended up being more debatable or true.
No kidding? If only people had been warning against censorship on Facebook and other social media sites for years before you and others decided to become the arbiters of truth and science. This was entirely predictable, especially during something as volatile as a pandemic. Health officials repeatedly flip-flopped on the efficacy of face masks and were wrong about school closures and the efficacy of vaccines in preventing infections, and were almost certainly wrong about the origins of the virus. In some cases, health officials lied to the public to try and influence people into their preferred ways of living, as Dr. Anthony Fauci admitted.
The damage done, particularly to children through school closures and other restrictions, is incalculable, and social media sites such as Facebook contributed to that. If Zuckerberg is smart, he will learn that the lesson here is that he and other social media sites should not allow themselves to be the censorship tools of politicians or bureaucrats. Facebook and other tech companies should be out of the “misinformation” business entirely.
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