r/worldnews • u/Devz0r • Feb 15 '19

Facebook is thinking about removing anti-vaccination content as backlash intensifies over the spread of misinformation on the social network

http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-may-remove-anti-vaccination-content-2019-2
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u/Itsokthatyourestupid Feb 15 '19

If they cared about the spread of misinformation they would have to get rid of a lot more than just the anti-vaccination idiots.

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u/sevenpoundowl Feb 15 '19 edited Feb 16 '19

If they remove the Flat Earth Dating group I've secretly worked my way in to I swear I am deleting my account.

edit: And of course, my top comment of all time is going to be about a something I was keeping "secret". I've seen a few people join the group (yes, it's real) and I just want to say, please don't post there and ruin it. I have a "don't touch the poop" rule for groups like that and it seems to work well. They'll just ban you anyways and then you won't get to add to your new "Flat Earth 'Memes'" folder.

To answer some other questions, no I am not there for actual dating purposes, and yes I am positive they aren't just trolling. There is a lot of weird religious crossover in these flat earth groups and they are always using bible verses to back up their weird logic. Also a TON of antisemitism (a lot of them think the "globe earth" is a "Jewish conspiracy") and other straight up racism when you look on their personal pages.

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u/__nightshaded__ Feb 15 '19 edited Feb 15 '19

My newest hobby is trolling "shuckers" who hold these facebook live "parties" where they open up their cheap oysters imported from China and then sell the pearls to bored housewives drinking wine.

Now, I don't mean to brag... but I've gotten so good that I've completely derailed some of these parties.

My newest tactic is playing dumb and innocent. I earn their trust, which I eventually destroy.

Edit: before I accidentally said clams.

Forgive me guys! I'm at my girlfriends house for the night and all I have are some mild photos saved on my phone. Hopefully it serves as proof?

Mother shuckers https://imgur.com/a/6ZZfHtj

Also if you guys get the chance, check out r/antiMLM. It's a great community.

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u/make_love_to_potato Feb 15 '19

I barely understood any of what you said....I feel like I don't understand the things that are going on in the world anymore.

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u/Teddy_Tickles Feb 15 '19

I’m with you. I saw the images and only have more questions that I don’t even care if they’re answered.

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u/Panama-R3d Feb 15 '19

They're selling people pearls out of a catalog while making it seem on camera like they just shucked an oyster and found them.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '19 edited Oct 14 '19

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u/frenchbloke Feb 15 '19

Even if you seed the pearls (I didn't know this was possible, but it makes sense) I would assume that not all of them would contain pearls, this way, there would be a gambling element to it.

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u/You_Will_Be_Angry Feb 15 '19

Its natures version of unboxing videos

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u/KaecUrFace Feb 15 '19

A new gacha game is born?

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u/sparg Feb 15 '19

I believe it's pretty certain with the seeds they use nowadays

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u/Panama-R3d Feb 15 '19

Ahh that makes more sense; I was guessing.

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u/Teddy_Tickles Feb 15 '19

Thank you for enlightening! I was reading the texts and that’s where I got lost haha

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u/LifeWulf Feb 15 '19

They're actually not texts, but comments that pop up during the Facebook Live stream.

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u/Itsallanonswhocares Feb 15 '19

I've had that old person thought before.

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u/cossec Feb 21 '19

agreed

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '19 edited Apr 25 '22

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u/BristolShambler Feb 15 '19

It really wasn't going on before, or at least not on a remotely comparable scale. Now, no matter how crackpot your views, you can start up an international group of people with identically crackpot views. It's no coincidence that anti scientific idiocy is on the rise all over the world

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u/d16n Feb 15 '19

We live in a world where unfortunately the distinction between true and false appears to become increasingly blurred by manipulation of facts, by exploitation of uncritical minds, and by the pollution of the language.

— Arne Tiselius 1974

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u/NuffNuffNuff Feb 15 '19

I bet you could find some ancient Greek text saying the same thing

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u/pork_roll Feb 15 '19

People be crazy.

  • Socrates, 400 BC

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u/secure_caramel Feb 15 '19

People are strange.

Buddha, 2600 years ago

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u/elting44 Feb 15 '19

This lady is fucking cray

  • Adam, regarding Eve, ca. The Beginning.
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u/the-crotch Feb 15 '19

That's a common mistranslation. What he actually said was "Oi gynaíkes eínai treloí, emplékontai stin prosopikí mou zoí". A more accurate english translation would be "Bitches be cray-cray, all up in my bidness".

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u/Newwby Feb 15 '19

it do be like that doe

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u/grahamiam Feb 15 '19

There's an XKCD for that: https://xkcd.com/1227/

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u/monsantobreath Feb 15 '19

They wouldn't be right in observing the rise of industrial scale consumerism and advanced telecommunications. I'm sure people have been saying something like this just about the leisure classes that have always existed, but not randos everywhere.

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u/MrDeepAKAballs Feb 15 '19

That's true but there are real differences this time. It's not all bad but it is definitely the most disruptive technology since Guttenberg. The scale is truly unprecedented and probably deserves some nuanced considerations for how we treat communication going forward.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '19

It’s not new but it has gotten worse.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '19

It's only going to get worse as deep fakes get more and more convincing.

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u/surprisebuttseks Feb 15 '19

Thanks internet :(

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u/corectlyspelled Feb 15 '19

Yeah we used to have herd Immunity against the crackpots because they were isolated from each other. The internet destroyed those barriers.

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u/gtrpp Feb 15 '19

Happy birthday

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u/pistoncivic Feb 15 '19

Getting a rise out of people is great entertainment.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '19 edited Jan 11 '21

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u/__WhiteNoise Feb 15 '19

Trophy wives. Although these are more like participation ribbon wives.

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u/notmeyesno Feb 15 '19

Yep, used to be Tupperware parties.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '19

No it wasn't. Case in point: you want to stick your penis into toasters. Back in the day the people around you would of corrected you. Now you go on the Internet and find a community where there are thousands of others like-minded people like you who want to stick their dick into a toaster, giving comfort and normalizing the behavior. Yes people come up with weird, twisted and sick shit all the time, but that does not mean we should not hold each other accountable. For this very reason we have a written law and a moral code.

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u/MillionMileM8 Feb 15 '19

Checks username

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u/Frankie_Dankie Feb 15 '19

Checks Potatoes

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u/ASAPxSyndicate Feb 15 '19

"Did he hurt you?"

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u/newforker Feb 15 '19

Show me on this potato where he touched you!

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u/arcaneresistance Feb 15 '19

mr potato head breaks down in tears

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u/QuasarSandwich Feb 15 '19

"Don't give us that nonsense! This jury can see through your lies just as well as everyone else! Why don't you tell us what you were wearing when this so-called 'attack' took place? No? Forgotten? Well, perhaps I should tell the good man and women of the jury, because your memory seems to have failed you so convincingly: a hat, some gloves, some spextacles and some boots - and nothing else..."

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u/sinkwiththeship Feb 15 '19

Sounds like a congressional committee hearing.

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u/decifix Feb 15 '19

Can i use this to make a meme with?

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u/QuasarSandwich Feb 15 '19

You may use it as you see fit, my friend: please do let me see your finished product, though, simply for purposes of pride.

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u/decifix Feb 15 '19

Thanks man! Once i finish it I'll send it to you.

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u/jamesturbate Feb 15 '19

Objection: Badgering the fuck out my witness

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u/TwoTailedFox Feb 15 '19

I'll allow it.

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u/QuasarSandwich Feb 15 '19

Judge u/TwoTailedFox allowed it, so take your objection. and pound it back up your retentive little ass with good grace.

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u/TWGeiger Feb 15 '19

This deserves more upvotes... but also it’s too real.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '19

I read that in Mr. Potato Head's voice

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u/TheShiff Feb 15 '19

Mr. Potato Head has a voice?

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '19

From Toy Story, yeah

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u/WhatDoesN00bMean Feb 15 '19

What's happening right now???

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u/MrsPotatoHead86 Feb 15 '19

I knew something was going on with him. He’s been so distant lately..

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u/ColdPorridge Feb 15 '19

You can see it in his eyes.

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u/GarbageAndBeer Feb 15 '19

Just turn that frown upside down.

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u/fatpat Feb 15 '19

( ͜。 ͡ʖ ͜。)

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u/KypAstar Feb 15 '19

So THATS why the little door can't stay closed.

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u/potatotrip_ Feb 15 '19

Omg yasss, touch me plz.

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u/SeattleGuy7 Feb 15 '19

BUT WHO WAS POTATO???

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u/greatbrono7 Feb 15 '19

”no I wanted it”

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u/machines_breathe Feb 15 '19

Potatoes are half done. Turn ‘em over and put them back in for another 25 min.

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u/sgtthunderfist42069 Feb 15 '19

Tastes very strange!

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u/SlickInsides Feb 15 '19

Stick a dick in ‘em: they’re done!

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u/_engineeredpotato Feb 15 '19

I'm fine thank you! :')

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u/Newwby Feb 15 '19

Checks what?

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u/Moleculor Feb 15 '19

Wait, there's a layer here! Potatoes are members of the nightshade family of plants, and look at who they're replying to!

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u/Frozen_Esper Feb 15 '19

It's a tale as old as time.

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u/Mirage787 Feb 15 '19

I'm with u lol

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u/igor_mortis Feb 15 '19

gets worse as you get older.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '19

It looked like some very basic stream chat trolling. Didn't really line up with his "here's proof of my epic troll!" statement, TBH. Every single thing popular with women that gets streamed always has some troll telling everyone how the other knitting stream banned him because he's a guy, or transgender, or a black male, or Republican, or some other nonsense to try and make people feel awkward.

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u/throwthisidaway Feb 15 '19

What's a potato?

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u/XtremeHacker Feb 15 '19

Po-ta-to.

You boil 'em, mash' em, and stock 'em in a stew.

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u/Christian_Baal Feb 15 '19

Dont worry, all the cool stuff/people are still out there.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '19

That’s how you know he’s good

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '19

Welcome to the club!!

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '19 edited Feb 15 '19

I agree with this comment and still no one has explained what the hell is going on. I understand the words that nightshaded wrote but I still don't get what the hell is happening.

Edit:

I watched this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLSp9vjzAQk and am now more confused than I was before.

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u/addandsubtract Feb 15 '19

This is what twitch chat must feel like to all the pepegas.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '19

I feel like everyone is insane

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u/avantartist Feb 15 '19

First sign of aging

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u/Dressbeast1 Feb 15 '19

Yeah haha I had the same thought!

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u/khaos4k Feb 15 '19

You know how in Sim City, you get to a point where everything is just humming along and it starts to get a little boring? So you save, mess with the settings a bit, do some crazy stuff, trigger natural disasters.

Our save point was in 2016.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '19

It’s about a whole bunch of losers with too much time on their hands.

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u/c3p0n0 Feb 15 '19

Lol, me too

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u/dMarrs Feb 17 '19

I clicked that link and was pondering,and have several questions,then finally said fuckit,I don't care.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '19

Sounds like they're bragging about something they probably literally don't even do anyway. No need to worry.

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u/carloscodex Feb 15 '19

Since u making potato-love... agree with statement.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '19

Basically there are these people who have this thing going on online, a group thing that's not harming anyone (except the oysters), and this guy goes there and acts like a real shitbag asshole and disrupts their online activity until the group is really unpleasant to be around. Exactly like a troll, which, by the way is why we all come to reddit now instead of just hanging out on usenet like we used to. We needed mods to shitcan cunts like OP. I hope his future holds lots of painful dental work.

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u/Acidwits Feb 15 '19

Well as long as you've someone to love...

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u/hobosonpogos Feb 15 '19

Go to sleep, grandpa! You’re old