I don’t think social media sites should be trusted to be the ultimate authority but I do believe we are obligated to make sure that stuff like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_Mineral_Supplement doesn’t happen again.
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I don’t think social media sites should be trusted to be the ultimate authority but I do believe we are obligated to make sure that stuff like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_Mineral_Supplement doesn’t happen again. we can all shout "don’t believe everything you read online" but people still choose not to listen. If something on your platform is putting people in physical danger perhaps you should do something about it instead of shrugging and going "everyone can come to their own conclusions, I don’t want to moderate people’s beliefs"
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Trust & Safety, Community Moderation whatever you want to call it aren’t experts at everything. But when the experts speak up about there being problems you best be listening to them https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5489284/
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@puppygirlhornypost2 I think Mastodon hasn't really been tested yet in terms of content moderation controversies over misinformation, medical or otherwise.
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@[email protected] it really hasn’t - but we can look at past events on other social media networks
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@[email protected] I think the closest I can think of is this https://newsie.social/@ProPublica/113646462591785722 a lot of people were upset at propublica and wew I got a lot of reports of posts in the replies. still, that’s completely different from MMS. it doesn’t even begin to approach what MMS was like. I remember when that was everywhere and how there were all of these warnings about it
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@[email protected] (people were upset at propublica’s framing. it’s nuanced because people commit a bit of insurance fraud and code non ABA treatments as ABA… etc)
