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Counter-Disinformation Fail
Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2021 6:46 pm
by Woodchopper
Apparently Instagram just suspended the Cochrane Collaboration for spreading disinformation.
https://twitter.com/cochranecollab/stat ... 85536?s=21
Perhaps a misfiring algorithm, or maybe a malicious report by some anti-scientist.
Whatever happened it shows how social media companies are struggling to tell what is and isn’t disinformation.
Re: Counter-Disinformation Fail
Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2021 7:10 pm
by discovolante
The replies suggest it might be to do with a review that concluded that surgical mask wearing had little impact on transmission of flu. I think we can guess the direction that went...so possibly an algorithm, people using Cochrane as evidence against mask wearing....yes tricky.
Re: Counter-Disinformation Fail
Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2022 8:08 pm
by Woodchopper
And now Facebook blocked an article in the British Medical Journal:
https://www.bmj.com/content/376/bmj.o95
Re: Counter-Disinformation Fail
Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2022 10:20 am
by tom p
In all fairness, it is a
b.llsh.t article, a piece of comment by an antivax c.nt and commissioned by another who has become an editor there somehow. The article was reported here in the pandemic arena and torn to shreds by Orac.
I'm glad they blocked it & hopefully it will make the BMJ think twice before they decide to destroy their reputation
Re: Counter-Disinformation Fail
Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2022 9:56 pm
by Cardinal Fang
tom p wrote: ↑Fri Jan 21, 2022 10:20 am
In all fairness, it is a
b.llsh.t article, a piece of comment by an antivax c.nt and commissioned by another who has become an editor there somehow. The article was reported here in the pandemic arena and torn to shreds by Orac.
I'm glad they blocked it & hopefully it will make the BMJ think twice before they decide to destroy their reputation
Linkie to the Orac piece?
Been trawling through the Covid posts and can't see it, but could just be me being blind
CF
Re: Counter-Disinformation Fail
Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2022 10:11 pm
by shpalman
Cardinal Fang wrote: ↑Sat Jan 22, 2022 9:56 pm
tom p wrote: ↑Fri Jan 21, 2022 10:20 am
In all fairness, it is a
b.llsh.t article, a piece of comment by an antivax c.nt and commissioned by another who has become an editor there somehow. The article was reported here in the pandemic arena and torn to shreds by Orac.
I'm glad they blocked it & hopefully it will make the BMJ think twice before they decide to destroy their reputation
Linkie to the Orac piece?
Been trawling through the Covid posts and can't see it, but could just be me being blind
CF
https://respectfulinsolence.com/2021/11 ... o-the-bmj/
Re: Counter-Disinformation Fail
Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2022 1:17 pm
by tom p
shpalman wrote: ↑Sat Jan 22, 2022 10:11 pm
Cardinal Fang wrote: ↑Sat Jan 22, 2022 9:56 pm
tom p wrote: ↑Fri Jan 21, 2022 10:20 am
In all fairness, it is a
b.llsh.t article, a piece of comment by an antivax c.nt and commissioned by another who has become an editor there somehow. The article was reported here in the pandemic arena and torn to shreds by Orac.
I'm glad they blocked it & hopefully it will make the BMJ think twice before they decide to destroy their reputation
Linkie to the Orac piece?
Been trawling through the Covid posts and can't see it, but could just be me being blind
CF
https://respectfulinsolence.com/2021/11 ... o-the-bmj/
that's the one. cheers mate
Re: Counter-Disinformation Fail
Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2022 3:41 pm
by Cardinal Fang
Ta