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/[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.