Facebook is employing third-party vetters to limit scientific debate

https://www.wsj.com/articles/fact-checking-facebooks-fact-checkers-11614987375

by avancemos • 5 years ago

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avancemos• 5 years ago

Excerpt:

Facebook this week appended a Wall Street Journal op-ed “We’ll Have Herd Immunity by April” by Johns Hopkins surgeon Marty Makary (Feb. 19) with the label “Missing Context. Independent fact-checkers say this information could mislead people.” According to Facebook, “Once we have a rating from a fact-checking partner, we take action by ensuring that fewer people see that misinformation.”

Turing_Machine• 5 years ago

If Facebook is going to do this, they need to identify who these "scientists" are -- or at least what their credentials are -- so we can decide whether their opinions should outweigh those of a surgeon/professor who holds chairs at Johns Hopkins and the Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Makary isn't some internet rando with a theory that COVID-19 is caused by gamma rays from Jupiter or whatever. His opinions are open to dispute, certainly, but they deserve more respect than just being put down the memory hole on the word of anonymous "scientists" (botanists? archaelogists? astrophysicists? We don't know!).

Facebook is employing third-party vetters to limit scientific debate

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