Zuckerberg says Biden administration officials pressured Meta to censor some COVID-19 content
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  • kescusay@lemmy.world
    48·
    3 months ago

    Yep. The Biden administration pressured Meta to stop the spread of misinformation and disinformation that was designed to kill Americans by making them fearful of vaccination against COVID-19.

    I fully support the Biden administration’s efforts.

    • RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.world
      4·
      3 months ago

      But if i cant spread misinformation and get people killed because of it, do i really have freeze peach!? 😭 /s

      I’m truly done with all this shit. The right has made it very clear they don’t like reality and want to live in a made-up fantasy world where facts do not matter.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    3 months ago

    Who cares what Zuckerberg says?

    Dude is fucking terrible and wants Facebook to be able to do whatever he wants.

    Like, it’s a billionaire complaining about common sense regulation like “Don’t spread dangerous medical misinformation”.

  • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
    49·
    3 months ago

    Lemmy users are so weird with their downvotes. Even Reddit didn’t have this kind of problem.

    Just because you don’t like the news you’re reading doesn’t mean you should downvote the post. No need to assume that an article is posted by someone who agrees with the part of the article you disagree with. Calm down.

    VOA may be state media, but they also aren’t all that terrible in their reporting either, for any reflexively downvoting the source.

    • Eldritch@lemmy.worldEnglish
      161·
      3 months ago

      The headline is a quote. A sensationalist, false statement from an exploitative billionaire. The down votes are reflexive but logical considering demographics here. VOA ran with the headline for a reason. Even if the article debunks the headline. It was a poor choice considering the source.

      • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
        11·
        3 months ago

        They’re quoting what he said to Congress. That’s newsworthy.

        Admitting that the article debunks Zuckerberg, your complaint seems to be that the rebuttal wasn’t a part of the headline? That’s not how headlines work…

        • Eldritch@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          3 months ago

          But is it headline worthy? Yes my issue is with the headline. Why not simply make the headline “Zuckerberg testifies to Congress”? It’s factual, demonstrably true, and accurate. Is it responsible to publish a known lie as a headline simply for its salacious and attention grabbing nature. As well as pandering to confirmation bias?

          The article may very well be fine. But the downvotes for yellow journalistic practices I think are not undeserved.

          • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
            12·
            3 months ago

            Why not simply make the headline “Zuckerberg testifies to Congress”?

            Because that would be a fabrication. Zuckerberg wasn’t testifying to Congress, this was a written statement to a Congressional committee. That detail notwithstanding, the newsworthy portion of the story isn’t that he talked to Congress, the newsworthy part is what he materially said to Congress.

            Of course, your complaint is pretty transparently that this article isn’t biased the same way you are, and I’m not surprised that you don’t actually know what the article says when you complain that it isn’t accurate, or that you are recommending lies to replace this perfectly factual headline, because as you said, that’s what I should expect from the Demographics here on Lemmy (left-wing children still figuring out how politics and journalism actually work).

            • Eldritch@lemmy.worldEnglish
              4·
              3 months ago

              Okay, then Zuckerberg’s Congressional statement then. It’s not a significant change.

              Nah, as I said. The article is fine. It’s literally the headline that’s the issue. Literally. Try a different strawman.

              This isn’t just a VOA thing or anything. But a far too common point of contention with all modern media. It’s irresponsible and tabloid. For all the people who see the headline, but don’t read the article or didn’t already know it to be a misrepresentation/lie. Arguably most people. The headline isn’t just uninformative. But misinformative. And it’s all over. Got nothing to do with whether a publication leans to any one group or another. I down vote shitty headlines I see like this being posted by nominally left leaning groups or right.

              And it’s sad, because there can still be good journalism going on under all the manipulative editorialization.