It’s worse than Facebook admits, but is it as bad as Joe Biden says?
Was Biden right in pointing the finger at Facebook for its role in facilitating the spread of vaccine misinformation, or was his ire misplaced? A bit of both, actually. As it turns out, the story is a lot more complicated than either party has acknowledged.improved in the way it deals with health misinformation during the pandemic in terms of taking down and limiting the spread of such content, and the platform likely isn’t the main driver of vaccine hesitancy in this country.
Stanford Internet Observatory research manager Renée DiResta, an expert on the online tactics of the anti-vaccination movement,that after being snubbed by the mainstream media and more traditional outlets, anti-vaxxers began relying heavily on Facebook around 2009 to find more followers. They used groups, pages, and ads as the publicity-generating infrastructure that would sustain their cause for years to follow.
than the truth, and despite the platform’s current efforts to provide accurate vaccine information, it’s trying to climb out of a hole that it’s helped to dig for more than a decade.That being said, it’s not clear that Facebook is the primary engine behind vaccine misinformation at this very moment. As Charlie Warzel
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