Facebook removing Autism vaccine misinformation. Too little too late?
Posted Feb 9, 2021, 7:28 AM UTC
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Not sure if this helps, banning misinformation sometimes makes people think the government/elite/boogeymen is out to get them for sharing the truth.
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Doing nothing and giving them an unquestioned voice is worse
Sucks to spread lies and kill kids 🤷♂️🤷♂️
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They aren't unquestioned, people do argue with them, I have in the past when I was more active on the internet. Censorship has historically made these problems worse as it isolates them more, they'll just end up fringe websites where no normal person comes by to question them. Censorship is adding more fuel to the fire.
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What's your solution then?
Maybe take their children away?
Send the parents back to school?
Send them all to Facebook Island and let them fight to the death?
Facebook is their easy go-to in regards to misinformation, and I'd wager most rarely leave that echo chamber; I doubt 37 year old Sally will find such strong social hysteria and easy to use surroundings elsewhere as she doesn't even know how to bookmark websites
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Taking their children away is absolutely a good idea and I think this has already happened in some places, if they're this inept and unstable they will likely harm their kids. Some are already harming their kids physically by giving them bleach enemas, very popular among anti-vaxers. Removing the posts from a woman telling everyone to do bleach enemas and that vaccines are filled with microchips and autism won't make her stop abusing her kids.
While you can't send them back to school letting them take some kind of counselling might be helpful, I fear these anti-vaxers are seriously disturbed.
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Better than nothing, but yes.. and frankly from my experience the reality is very different than the claim. They’ll make a bit of an effort, but the misinformation will still be there.
I’m on Facebook, someone in my network is sadly an avid conspiracy theorist and keeps sharing rubbish she’s found on FB claiming covid is fake, masks give covid, 5g gives covid, the lizard people are doing this, etc etc all info FB already claimed they banned last year. Not that Reddit, google or the other networks are any better. They’ll do the bare minimum as long as it doesn’t hurt their ad revenue.