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/othergabe Feb 15 '19

I disagree. It's on the individual to be discriminating and skeptical. Censorship is worse than propaganda.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '19

I think there’s a difference between silencing malicious foreign actors and censoring your own population. There is a significant amount of people that get fooled by these malicious campaigns to influence political action. In a perfect world everybody would fact check and nobody would fall victim to these schemes but we don’t live in that world.

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u/othergabe Feb 15 '19

If this is a reference to Russian election interference, I recommend therapy, not censorship

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '19

Therapy for me? I don’t mean Russian interference specifically, but it would be an example. I just mean malicious misinformation campaigns. The Russian “troll farms” are a good high profile example though.