We should demand the same thing here... Reddit Moderators Demand The Platform Take Action Against Covid Disinformation https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlie...orm-take-action-against-covid-disinformation/ Moderators of some of Reddit’s most popular subreddits published an open letter calling on the company to do more to prevent the dissemination of medical disinformation that they say runs rampant on the platform, demanding Reddit ban message boards they assert “exist solely” to spread coronavirus disinformation and undermine efforts to fight the pandemic. A group of volunteer moderators who oversee message boards, or “subreddits,” with tens of millions of users pointed in the letter to examples of Reddit users misrepresenting as ineffective or even dangerous scientifically proven methods of stopping the spread of coronavirus, like wearing face masks, social distancing and vaccines. The disinformation can be deadly in some cases, the open letter states, mentioning the bizarre practice of taking cattle dewormers to treat coronavirus symptoms, which the Food and Drug Administration issued a warning against last week after reporting “growing interest” in the drug by humans. The open letter states that the disinformation on Reddit “attains an air of legitimacy through sheer volume of repetition,” and that “people begin to believe [it] wholeheartedly.” Popular subreddits with moderators that signed on to the open letter include r/aww, r/lifeprotips, r/pics, r/showerthoughts, r/tifu and r/UpliftingNews, which each have at least 10 million subscribers, along with hundreds of smaller communities. Reddit did not immediately respond to a Forbes request for comment. Crucial Quote “There is a good chance that the disinformation that Reddit is currently inundated with will necessitate people a stay at the toxicology department in the hospital or even cost them their lives. There can be no room for leniency when people are dying as a result of misinformation on this platform,” the open letter states. Big Number 52 million. That’s how many daily users Reddit had on average in late 2020, the platform told The Wall Street Journal in December, a figure it said was a 44% jump from the same time the previous year. It was the first time Reddit publicly disclosed the metric. Key Background Other social media platforms that have struggled with moderating coronavirus misinformation include Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. Last year, Reddit administrators pledged to do more to remove misinformation from the platform and prevent it from spreading, a promise the open letter claims has led to “nothing of substance” besides “quarantining” r/NoNewNormal, a subreddit dedicated to anti-mask and anti-vaccination. When a subreddit is quarantined, the message board will “display a warning that requires users to explicitly opt-in,” Reddit says. According to the moderators’ open letter, it isn’t a strong enough response, writing that quarantining “barely reduces traffic and does little to stop misinformation.”
Would Reddit really ban Fauchi and the CDC from posting....That would certainly stop mis-information , but its not very nice
Artist should first get the horse colors correct. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Apocalypse Also, Satan is considered the great deceiver (e.g. lies/misinformation) therefore the fifth horse there is not needed.
Reddit bans the top COVID misinformation sub-Reddit and 54 other sub-Reddits. The moderators should do the same thing on ET with COVID misinformation posts. Reddit Just Banned One of the Biggest Subreddits for COVID-19 Misinformation Reddit banned r/NoNewNormal and quarantined an additional 54 groups it said were responsible for COVID-19 misinformation. https://www.vice.com/en/article/3aq...iggest-subreddits-for-covid-19-misinformation Reddit kicks out controversial Covid subreddit after mass protest https://metro.co.uk/2021/09/02/redd...t-after-mass-protest-15194843/?ito=smart-news
Removing misinformation on social media is not Cancel Culture. Cancel Culture would be if Redditers raised an online mob to hunt down the misinformation posters, get them fired from their jobs, threaten their families, damage their homes, shut down their businesses, and inflict financial loss on them -- if they did this then it would be 'Cancel Culture".
According to you, publishers pulling racist books was proof positive of "giving in" to the cancel culture mob.
Once again a online mob caused a business (publisher) to suffer financial harm by stop selling books. Sadly this was not enough for this online mob -- they are demanding that all the Dr. Suess books stop being published and for all his books to be taken out of libraries. The publisher attempted to appease the mob and it did not help out --- it simply empowered the mob to demand more.