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Facebook warns JAMA study on children's COVID masks 'false news,' sharers will be punished
https://justthenews.com ^ | By Greg Piper Updated: July 7, 2021 - 4:19pm

Posted on 07/09/2021 6:19:54 AM PDT by Red Badger

Pages, websites that repeatedly publish or share false news will see "overall distribution reduced and be restricted' in other ways," says warning.

Facebook is warning users against sharing a study that found dangerously high carbon-dioxide intake in masked schoolchildren, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Pediatrics.

"Pages and websites that repeatedly publish or share false news will see their overall distribution reduced and be restricted in other ways," the warning says when users paste the link on Facebook, before confirming they want to share it.

It's giving the same warning and threat of account restrictions to users who paste a link to Townhall.com article on a University of Florida lab that found dangerous pathogens on children's face masks, submitted for testing by their parents.

Just the News confirmed the warnings popped up on the two articles when pasting the links in Facebook posts. Each recommends a fact-check by organizations authorized by Facebook to vet posted articles — Lead Stories for the JAMA Pediatrics study, whose URL starts "hoax alert," and AFP France for the mask-pathogen lab report.

Facebook warning about JAMA Pediatrics study Facebook

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Facebook warning about Townhall.com face mask report Facebook

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Jennifer Cabrera, who wrote the first article about the mask-pathogen lab report, shared Facebook screenshots that show AFP France reviewed the link 20 days after it was posted and Facebook added a warning that same day. She noted Facebook misidentified the fact-checker as AFP Africa.

"AFP's 'fact-check' simply highlights disagreements between the scientist who conducted the test and other scientists who did not conduct the test," she tweeted Wednesday. "Instead of acknowledging that more study would resolve the dispute, AFP calls the report false. That's not science — that's propaganda."

The organizations are certified by the Poynter Institute's International Fact-Checking Network, which received $1.3 million from the grant-making organizations founded by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and progressive megadonor George Soros.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: afp; children; jama; masks
Some booger eating liberal at his desk in California is a waaaay more reliable source than the entire medical profession in the entire world....................
1 posted on 07/09/2021 6:19:54 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

The Facebook servers need to go up in flames.


2 posted on 07/09/2021 6:20:50 AM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021)
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To: Red Badger

Rats eating other Rats.


3 posted on 07/09/2021 6:21:36 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (I love my country. It’s my government that I hate.)
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To: Red Badger

So they’re a publisher then.

Got it.

Thanks.

L


4 posted on 07/09/2021 6:23:04 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: Red Badger

I have an Apple watch that measure my blood oxygen level.

It was 88% one day - normal is closer to 95% - and was wondering why it was so low - then remembered I had been forced to wear a mask during that time period - even though the media tell us that masks don’t cut down on oxygen levels.

It’s all in the science, you know.


5 posted on 07/09/2021 6:23:14 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (Rigged Elections have Consequences)
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To: Lurker
Speaking of which, Trump's class action suit will go to the Supreme Court. Roberts will rule against it of course, and Kavanaugh and Barrett will cave.

Just sayin'.

6 posted on 07/09/2021 6:27:07 AM PDT by OKSooner ("I for one welcome our new Chinese Communist overlords.")
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To: Responsibility2nd

I don’t have any respect today for any supposedly scientific journal, but they are an accepted (according to their standards, at least before this) “peer reviewed” publication.

I find it most illuminating that they are now attacking a supposed peer reviewed journal, but...maybe they aren’t as dumb as I assume they are.

Perhaps they understand just what a farce peer review really is these days...

Or perhaps they are being ideologues, which is in their nature.


7 posted on 07/09/2021 6:28:20 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists are The Droplet of Sewage in a gallon of ultra-pure clean water.)
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To: Red Badger

FB is NOT a social media site. It’s a site whose purpose is to identify dissenters and to teach them a lesson.

They don’t care if you post pix of the dog. They do get angry when you express disagreement with the official party line that we are all expected to love and embrace.

When you share something that FB has decided is subversive, your head pops up above the crowd and now they know who you are. You are on a list of rebels. Yes, they give you a warning popup, but they now have you in their database of troublemakers. When there’s trouble, they know who to investigate.

If you have anything to do with those anon sites, you are now a violent extremist. And the site for posting pix of the dog has taken note of that and updated their database.


8 posted on 07/09/2021 6:31:45 AM PDT by I want the USA back (To find out who really rules you, find out who you're not allowed to criticize. Voltaire. )
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To: CatOwner

I’d like to know how it is determined what is “false news” & what isn’t. If Facebook says one thing & someone else has a different opinion I am inclined to hear the “different opinion” myself, altho that may not always be right.


9 posted on 07/09/2021 6:41:46 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: Bon of Babble

“I have an Apple watch that measure my blood oxygen level.

It was 88% one day - normal is closer to 95% - and was wondering why it was so low - then remembered I had been forced to wear a mask during that time period - even though the media tell us that masks don’t cut down on oxygen levels.

It’s all in the science, you know.”
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IMHO, wearing a face mask is like living in a submarine or spacecraft with a malfunctioning CO2 scrubber. It’s not good for your health. And requiring healthy children to wear masks is CHILD ABUSE.


10 posted on 07/09/2021 6:52:14 AM PDT by House Atreides
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To: Red Badger
Hmmm, this entire digital book-burning seems familiar, like some sorta “global consensus” that requires me to pay higher taxes, live in the dark and only ride the bus...

but demands the opposite for turd-world denizens.

11 posted on 07/09/2021 6:58:24 AM PDT by NativeSon ( )
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To: Red Badger

If they have an open platform, how can they discriminate as to what people post? How are their “fact checkers” so smart as to know fake news from real news? They aren’t, that’s how. They are simply trying to control the narrative.


12 posted on 07/09/2021 6:58:31 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: NativeSon

Welcome to the New World Order.............................


13 posted on 07/09/2021 6:59:40 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Bon of Babble

Your lying eyes deceive you. You must follow only the Party approved science.

Somewhere in Hell, Lysenko is laughing his butt off.


14 posted on 07/09/2021 7:17:16 AM PDT by Fred Hayek (Antifa=BLM=RevCom=CPUSA = CCP=Democratic Party )
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To: Red Badger

Facebook is the ultimate arbiter of reality. Liberals are big believers in their own infallibility. Try telling one they aren’t. I dare ya.


15 posted on 07/09/2021 7:27:15 AM PDT by Spok (There are many more things that frighten us than can cause us harm.)
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To: Spok

Ministry Of Truth

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The Ministry of Truth, Winston’s place of work, contained, it was said, three thousand rooms above ground level, and corresponding ramifications below.

The Ministry of Truth concerned itself with Lies. Party ownership of the print media made it easy to manipulate public opinion, and the film and radio carried the process further.

The primary job of the Ministry of Truth was to supply the citizens of Oceania with newspapers, films, textbooks, telescreen programmes, plays, novels - with every conceivable kind of information, instruction, or entertainment, from a statue to a slogan, from a lyric poem to a biological treatise, and from a child’s spelling-book to a Newspeak dictionary.

Winston worked in the RECORDS DEPARTMENT (a single branch of the Ministry of Truth) editing and writing for The Times. He dictated into a machine called a speakwrite. Winston would receive articles or news-items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to alter, or, in Newspeak, rectify. If, for example, the Ministry of Plenty forecast a surplus, and in reality the result was grossly less, Winston’s job was to change previous versions so the old version would agree with the new one. This process of continuous alteration was applied not only to newspapers, but to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, sound-tracks, cartoons, photographs - to every kind of literature or documentation which might conceivably hold any political or ideological significance. - George Orwell, 1984


16 posted on 07/09/2021 7:37:38 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Some booger eating liberal at his desk in California is a waaaay more reliable source than the entire medical profession in the entire world..................../\

One of those booger eaters has a name

Alan Duke.

War room handed him his ass the other day.

Left him flip floping all over his monitor.

Hope Jack Posobiec sues him into the gutter where he belongs.


17 posted on 07/09/2021 9:52:41 AM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: OKSooner

I wouldn’t bet against you.


18 posted on 07/09/2021 11:30:22 AM PDT by wiley (John 16:33: "In the world you have tribulation, but take courage ; I have overcome the world.")
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