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SFGbob
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The US Surgeon General is calling on "Big Tech" to do more about "misinformation" regarding COVID that's being spread around and he is calling for them
In his advisory, he puts pressure on big tech companies to play a bigger role in combating health misinformation on their platforms. He wants to see algorithms tweaked to further demote bad information and companies to share more data with outside researchers and the government.
"The tech companies actually have a much better sense of how much misinformation is being transacted on their platforms, and without understanding the full extent of it ... it's hard to formulate the most effective strategies," he says.
The new surgeon general's advisory comes as welcome news to Imran Ahmed, the chief executive of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a group that tracks COVID-19 misinformation online. But Ahmed also says that asking individual Americans to fight misinformation won't be enough.
His group has identified a dozen major spreaders of vaccine misinformation, and many continue to operate unchecked on social media. "At our last count 30 of 89 social media accounts for those 12 people have been taken down, but that means 59 are still up," he says. "They've still got millions of viewers being pumped misinformation and lies on a daily basis."
Social media companies profiting off clicks are spreading misinformation faster than it can be counteracted, Ahmed says. He'd like to see the surgeon general exert even more pressure on those companies.
Now imagine applying this standard to the misinformation that's spread around by BLM and their supporters. "Hands Up Don't shoot" Should the people who push that lie be subject to censorship? 1619 Project? How about the people who claim Jan. 6th was worse than 9/11 and the biggest threat to our democracy since the Civil War? Biden's Government is using Big Tech to take away people's 1st Amendment Rights, and they are the sole arbiters of what is and what isn't "misinformation."
Where the hell do you draw the line with this? Is it "misinformation" if you say that there are only two genders? How about if you say "All Lives Matter." Will that now be considered misinformation? This is some scary shit.
In his advisory, he puts pressure on big tech companies to play a bigger role in combating health misinformation on their platforms. He wants to see algorithms tweaked to further demote bad information and companies to share more data with outside researchers and the government.
"The tech companies actually have a much better sense of how much misinformation is being transacted on their platforms, and without understanding the full extent of it ... it's hard to formulate the most effective strategies," he says.
The new surgeon general's advisory comes as welcome news to Imran Ahmed, the chief executive of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a group that tracks COVID-19 misinformation online. But Ahmed also says that asking individual Americans to fight misinformation won't be enough.
His group has identified a dozen major spreaders of vaccine misinformation, and many continue to operate unchecked on social media. "At our last count 30 of 89 social media accounts for those 12 people have been taken down, but that means 59 are still up," he says. "They've still got millions of viewers being pumped misinformation and lies on a daily basis."
Social media companies profiting off clicks are spreading misinformation faster than it can be counteracted, Ahmed says. He'd like to see the surgeon general exert even more pressure on those companies.
Now imagine applying this standard to the misinformation that's spread around by BLM and their supporters. "Hands Up Don't shoot" Should the people who push that lie be subject to censorship? 1619 Project? How about the people who claim Jan. 6th was worse than 9/11 and the biggest threat to our democracy since the Civil War? Biden's Government is using Big Tech to take away people's 1st Amendment Rights, and they are the sole arbiters of what is and what isn't "misinformation."
Where the hell do you draw the line with this? Is it "misinformation" if you say that there are only two genders? How about if you say "All Lives Matter." Will that now be considered misinformation? This is some scary shit.
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Good day for fascism.
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I didn’t want the government involved in social media at all, you guys are the ones still begging for. You reap what you sow.
I don’t peddle scientifically illiterate conspiracy theories so I’m not worried about this. -
You mean like the people who said it didn't come from a Chinese lab but from a Chinese wet market? You do peddle bullshit racist conspiracy theories blaming white racism for black crime and out of wedlock birth rates. What if the government decided to start censoring your ignorant lying ass Kobe? You in?TheKobeStopper said:I didn’t want the government involved in social media at all, you guys are the ones still begging for. You reap what you sow.
I don’t peddle scientifically illiterate conspiracy theories so I’m not worried about this.
Pretty funny how when you're confronted with the dictionary definition of the thing you claim to care about you lick the boot when it's being done by your team. -
https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/florida-red-scare-escalates-students-now-required-to-disclose-political-beliefs/Bob_C said:Good day for fascism.
Sure sounds like it to me. -
I promise you the dictionary definition of fascism isn’t “asking companies to combat misinformation”.
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Weird how a "centrist" is getting his talking points from a Communist news paper. Explains why you so rarely let go of the side of the kiddie pool Mello. Glug, glug.MelloDawg said:
https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/florida-red-scare-escalates-students-now-required-to-disclose-political-beliefs/Bob_C said:Good day for fascism.
Sure sounds like it to me.
You can read the bill and analysis of it right here.
https://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=h0233z1.PEL.DOCX&DocumentType=Analysis&BillNumber=0233&Session=2021
It doesn't do what you claim Mello. Shocking, the board "centrist" is really a leftwing hack that swallows like a bitch communist propaganda. -
I promise you that it is the government working with business to harass and silence the government's political opposition. Who decides what's "misinformation" Kobe? I recall the government telling me that Hunter's laptop wasn't real and that it was nothing more than Russian disinformation. And you being the good little fascist boot licker you are had no problem with big tech shutting that story down.TheKobeStopper said:I promise you the dictionary definition of fascism isn’t “asking companies to combat misinformation”.
Hell I recall when Tom Cotton was being accused of spreading "misinformation" when he said that we should look into the possibility that Covid resulted from a lab leak. I guess you would have applauded the government getting big tech to shut him down to, right Kobe?
You spread real misinformation all the fucking time Kobe. When and if a Conservative President gets elected are you going to be so blase about them working with big tech to shut you and your fellow leftist bedwetters down? -
TheKobeStopper said:
I promise you the dictionary definition of fascism isn’t “asking companies to combat misinformation”.
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Well this is fascism and conservatives aren’t fascist so I have nothing to worry about, do I?SFGbob said:
I promise you that it is the government working with business to harass and silence the government's political opposition. Who decides what's "misinformation" Kobe? I recall the government telling me that Hunter's laptop wasn't real and that it was nothing more than Russian disinformation. And you being the good little fascist boot licker you are had no problem with big tech shutting that story down.TheKobeStopper said:I promise you the dictionary definition of fascism isn’t “asking companies to combat misinformation”.
Hell I recall when Tom Cotton was being accused of spreading "misinformation" when he said that we should look into the possibility that Covid resulted from a lab leak. I guess you would have applauded the government getting big tech to shut him down to, right Kobe?
You spread real misinformation all the fucking time Kobe. When and if a Conservative President gets elected are you going to be so blase about them working with big tech to shut you and your fellow leftist bedwetters down?
