Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook won't remove anti-vaccine posts despite Covid concerns

[dajoki]

Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook won't remove anti-vaccine posts despite Covid concerns
Social media chief denies Facebook’s algorithms are designed to push viewpoints ‘that are going to kind of enrage people
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/sep/09/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-not-rightwing-echo-chamber?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Copy_to_clipboard


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Critics of the tech CEO were quick to argue the platform does create an echo chamber for rightwing opinions. Parker Molloy, a writer and cultural critic at Media Matters for America, said Facebook had proved itself an echo chamber when it allowed hundreds of inaccurate ads funded by pro-Trump organizations.

The ability of rightwing content related to the QAnon conspiracy theory, misleading claims about voting, and anti-LGBTQ+ content to spread easily on the platform despite supposed bans showed that Facebook was indeed “highly partisan”, said Malloy.

“Zuckerberg may disagree with the characterization of Facebook as a rightwing echo chamber, but that doesn’t make it any less true,” she said. “Conservatives are thriving on Facebook, and they’re able to do this thanks to inconsistently applied policy enforcement, internal ideological advocacy, and general rightwing favoritism.”

Zuckerberg acknowledged that conservative voices and opinions ranked as Facebook’s most engaged content.

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[Yeehah]

1. Reason enough for any thinking person to delete their facebook account

and stop using it.

[lostnfound]

2. They SHOULDN'T remove them at the moment.

Trump is trying to push a vaccine before it is tested. There’s a significant danger that he will succeed in doing so. For that matter there’s probably a significant danger fraudulent vaccines getting out on the market, since his son-in-law Jared has been given the greenlight to provide Black market “everything else“.

It would be very hard for Facebook sensors to delete certain types of anti-VAX posts while leaving any room for fair discussion among the public regarding potential dangers of accepting new vaccines during the Trump administration.

I hate Facebook. Deleted my account a year ago.

[JI7]

3. Couldn't they just do it based on what experts have to say ?

There is a difference between most of the anti vaccine conspiracy theories and questioning Trump's push for a vaccine that didn't go through the usual trial process.

[live love laugh]

4. Agree nt

[Duppers]

5. His name is Fuckerburg in this house. nt