Posted on 02/08/2021 7:46:22 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Facebook announced on Feb. 8 that it will take down posts with claims about vaccines that health organizations or its fact-checkers deem false.
“Today, we are expanding our efforts to remove false claims on Facebook and Instagram about COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccines, and vaccines in general during the pandemic,” said a post from the social media giant. “Since December, we’ve removed false claims about COVID-19 vaccines that have been debunked by public health experts.”
“Today, following consultations with leading health organizations, including the World Health Organization (WHO), we are expanding the list of false claims we will remove to include additional debunked claims about the coronavirus and vaccines,” Facebook stated in a blog post.
WHO came under fire in 2020 for allegedly mishandling the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) virus outbreak, leading then-President Donald Trump to withdraw funding to the United Nations organization. Since then, there have been increasing calls for an investigation into the origin of the virus, which is said to have emerged in Wuhan, China, in 2019.
Facebook added that it will “begin enforcing this policy immediately,” adding that it will focus on publishers, groups, and accounts that violate its rules.
“We are also requiring some admins for groups with admins or members who have violated our COVID-19 policies to temporarily approve all posts within their group. Claims about COVID-19 or vaccines that do not violate these policies will still be eligible for review by our third-party fact-checkers, and if they are rated false, they will be labeled and demoted,” the company stated.
One of Facebook’s main fact-checkers is Lead Stories, a company that has received funds via Facebook, Google, and TikTok owner ByteDance, which has ties with the Chinese regime.
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Twitter announced in December 2020 that it would also begin labeling and removing posts about the CCP virus vaccine that it deems false.
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Gosh, I’m sure glad Zuck’s minions are protecting me from all this disinformation.
WHO's Tedros Adhanom Should be Tried for Crimes Against Humanity video 13:55
“Today, we are expanding our efforts to remove false claims on Facebook and Instagram about COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccines, and vaccines in general during the pandemic“
“Today, following consultations with leading health organizations, including the World Health Organization (WHO), we are expanding the list of false claims we will remove to include additional debunked claims about the coronavirus and vaccines.”
Does this mean we abandon evidence and default to “appeal to authority”. My “genius” brother routinely resorts to this same fallacy. You just lost your high school debate class.
I “DEEM” facebook false.
What difference does it make?
No one here is on Farcebook or Twit, right?
Waiting...
I remember 10 years ago (or so) when calling Facebook and twitter “intellectual wastelands” on FR got you a 9 round death grapple with a small legion of self important and all knowing “social media analysts”.
I wonder if those guys are selling fries these days,
Communist Purge Underway & Nothing Is Being Done About It!
So they ARE a publisher....
Not I
I opened a Facebook page in October just to follow Black Republicans like Terrence Williams and Diamond and Silk. After election, I tried to delete my account. They wouldn’t let me. Now I know how to do it.
Going over there to say truly terrible things about Fauxi and vaccines, all of which are true. Sayonara Suckerberg.
social media platforms are not arbiters of truth
not their role
They will take down any truth if they “deem” it false!
Big Tech censoring discussion of Covid is telling. It’s all part of a propaganda campaign to scare people into submission for the coup. If people aren’t scared, they can’t be manipulated. So anyone questioning the “experts” must be censored.
They can go ahead and publish or block whatever content they like - it is their service after all. I do think if they're going to act like a publisher then they ought to lose their 230 protections. Then they can ban, delete, book-burn to their little Goebbels inspired hearts content.
Funny, I've given up on the NFL, Nike, Gillette, Target, Facebook...really don't miss any of it at all. They can all go be woke without me.
So these two nerds determine what is or is not US Science now?
How many people did they kill by taking down posts supporting HCQ?
Zuckerberg funded much of the election fraud with approximately half a billion dollars. He should be in real jail for at least 30 years. NPR credits him with “saving the election.”
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