Facebook removed more than 20 million posts for COVID-19 misinformation The social network faces more pressure to combat false claims about the COVID-19 vaccines. https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/fa...20-million-posts-for-covid-19-misinformation/ Facebook purges accounts linked to anti-vax "disinformation dozen": report The group was responsible for more than 70% of the vaccine disinformation on Facebook, according to a study https://www.salon.com/2021/08/19/fa...anti-vax-disinformation-dozen-report_partner/
Facebook should remove the fact that the vaccinations do not prevent anyone from getting Covid-19. Ask my sister, she will tell you that.
%% WONDER why there is so much censorship, especially about nurses not wanting the vaccine?? STRANGELY, i heard NPR premarket, yak about the 70% vaccine rate in Iceland .Even more strange NPR, big time vaccine promoter/LOL, noted 69% of those now in Iceland hospital [for virus]HAVE taken vaccine. Google has nothing about that on search; duckduckgo is different......................................................................Washington Compost[Washington Post ] calls Iceland a ''success'', but then asks ''why the surge?"
Yeah, nurses do not want the vaccine. And how many doctors do not want the vaccine? Probably most of them.
Study Finds Misinformation on Facebook Six Times More Popular Than Factual News https://www.benzinga.com/news/21/09...book-six-times-more-popular-than-factual-news
The people who created this study -- well Facebook deplatformed them -- both personal and other accounts. That's your reward for accurate research. Researchers studying Facebook misinformation say they were deplatformed https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/05/media/reliable-sources-facebook-researchers-deplatform/index.html
Nurses dont want the vaccine? Sounds more like your opinion...There are plenty of nurses who support the vaccine: As unions representing nurses and health care workers in Washington state, the Washington State Nurses Association, SEIU Healthcare 1199NW and UFCW21 support science-based public health directives on COVID-19 vaccination requirements for frontline health care workers, with medical and religious exemptions. We stand firmly behind vaccination as the best way to save the lives of patients, family members and members of our communities. The American Nurses Association (ANA), representing the interests of the nation’s 4.2 million registered nurses, supports health care employers mandating nurses and all health care personnel to get vaccinated against COVID-19 in alignment with current recommendations for immunization by public health officials. National Nurses United, a union with more than 170,000 members nationwide, has indicated support for vaccine requirements. In an email, a spokeswoman said that “all eligible people should be vaccinated, while respecting the need for medical and religious accommodations.”
Facebook reportedly provided inaccurate data to misinformation researchers The data was incomplete, potentially damaging the researchers’ work https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/11/...ed-inaccurate-data-misinformation-researchers Facebook apologized to misinformation researchers for providing them with flawed, incomplete data for their work examining how users interact with posts and links on its platform, the New York Times reported. Contrary to what the company told the researchers, the data Facebook provided apparently only included information for roughly half of its users in the US, not all of them. The Times reported that members of Facebook’s Open Research and Transparency team held a call with researchers on Friday to apologize for the error. Some of the researchers questioned whether the mistake was intentional to sabotage the research, or simply an instance of negligence. The flaw in the data was first discovered by a researcher at Italy’s University of Urbino, who compared a report Facebook released publicly in August to the data it had provided solely to the researchers. The data sets didn’t match up, according to the Times. Facebook didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment from The Verge on Saturday, but a spokesperson told the Times that the mistake was the result of a technical error and the company “proactively told impacted partners about and are working swiftly to resolve” the problem. The report from August 18th that the University of Urbino researcher used in his comparison was released in the interest of “transparency,” showing the most-viewed content in Facebook’s public News Feed between April and June of this year, its second quarter. However, the Times discovered that Facebook had shelved a report about its first quarter that portrayed the company in a much-less flattering light. Facebook eventually released the shelved report. Also in August, Facebook banned academic researchers from New York University’s Ad Observatory project from its platform, after the group’s Ad Observer browser plug-in highlighted problems. Its research found Facebook had failed to disclose who paid for some political ads on its site.
Facebook Knew Anti-Vax Comments on Pages Pushing COVID Jabs Were ‘Huge Problem’ https://www.thedailybeast.com/faceb...on-pages-pushing-covid-jabs-were-huge-problem In the latest in its Facebook exposé, The Wall Street Journal found that the company became well aware that anti-vaxxers were attacking pages designed to promote COVID-19 vaccinations—and they were using the platform’s tools to do it. Company researchers found that vaccine-related posts, some by groups like the World Health Organization, had their comments overrun with anti-vaccine attacks, with some diving into the most extreme conspiracy theories. The pages soon became “cesspools of anti-vaccine comments,” they wrote. “That’s a huge problem and we need to fix it.” Researchers said the attacks were seen by users 775 million times a day. Facebook spokesman Aaron Simpson said the documents depicted its “routine process for dealing with difficult challenges.” “We’re focused on outcomes, and the data shows that for people in the U.S. on Facebook, vaccine hesitancy has declined by about 50% since January, and acceptance is high,” he said. “Narrowly characterizing leaked documents doesn’t accurately represent the problem, and it also ignores the work that’s been underway to make comments on posts about COVID-19 and vaccines safer and more reliable.” Read it at The Wall Street Journal