Coronavirus

[Rutherford B Hays]

Coronavirus Misinformation Lives Online, Despite Efforts to Stamp It Out

A review by The Wall Street Journal found dozens of pages and groups that have sprung up on Facebook to offer virus-related news and places to talk, some rife with comments or posts stoking fear about the virus or circulating unproven information.

False virus information could be more damaging than false content related to political discourse that has received attention in recent years, according to academics who study misinformation, because it might lead people to make misinformed decisions about their health or cause unwarranted panic.

One video posted to YouTube claimed that the Central Intelligence Agency has used the coronavirus as part of an “attack on Bernie,” referring to Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Democratic presidential candidate.

A spokesman from Mr. Sanders’s Senate office said he couldn’t comment on campaign-related matters, and campaign representatives couldn’t be reached for comment. A spokesman for the CIA said the agency “does not comment on such outlandish and offensive misinformation.”

Anyone getting medical advice from Facebook should go ahead and the advice they get there. Thin the heard out of these nutbag antivaxxers from the gene pool

 

[Rutherford B Hays]

That's just your usual Thursday night outfit

 

[It will be fine]

Coronavirus Misinformation Lives Online, Despite Efforts to Stamp It Out

A review by The Wall Street Journal found dozens of pages and groups that have sprung up on Facebook to offer virus-related news and places to talk, some rife with comments or posts stoking fear about the virus or circulating unproven information.

False virus information could be more damaging than false content related to political discourse that has received attention in recent years, according to academics who study misinformation, because it might lead people to make misinformed decisions about their health or cause unwarranted panic.

One video posted to YouTube claimed that the Central Intelligence Agency has used the coronavirus as part of an “attack on Bernie,” referring to Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Democratic presidential candidate.

A spokesman from Mr. Sanders’s Senate office said he couldn’t comment on campaign-related matters, and campaign representatives couldn’t be reached for comment. A spokesman for the CIA said the agency “does not comment on such outlandish and offensive misinformation.”

It’s obvious the CIA created the virus to overthrow the Iranian regime.

 

[vantexan]

Anyone getting medical advice from Facebook should go ahead and the advice they get there. Thin the heard out of these nutbag antivaxxers from the gene pool

That's what I heard about the herd.

 

[Old Man Jingles]

Coronavirus Misinformation Lives Online, Despite Efforts to Stamp It Out

A review by The Wall Street Journal found dozens of pages and groups that have sprung up on Facebook to offer virus-related news and places to talk, some rife with comments or posts stoking fear about the virus or circulating unproven information.

False virus information could be more damaging than false content related to political discourse that has received attention in recent years, according to academics who study misinformation, because it might lead people to make misinformed decisions about their health or cause unwarranted panic.

One video posted to YouTube claimed that the Central Intelligence Agency has used the coronavirus as part of an “attack on Bernie,” referring to Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Democratic presidential candidate.

A spokesman from Mr. Sanders’s Senate office said he couldn’t comment on campaign-related matters, and campaign representatives couldn’t be reached for comment. A spokesman for the CIA said the agency “does not comment on such outlandish and offensive misinformation.”

Did they mention members @bbsam, @It will be fine or @MrFedEx on Brown Cafe?

 

[tonyexpress]

Did they mention members @bbsam, @It will be fine or @MrFedEx on Brown Cafe?

As a matter of fact, they're sending the CIA over to investigate.

 

[Box Ox]

One video posted to YouTube claimed that the Central Intelligence Agency has used the coronavirus as part of an “attack on Bernie,” referring to Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Democratic presidential candidate.

Sounds like something a Russian disinformation campaign might put out to stir up a little more chaos. Still too easy for anyone to do.

 

[Babagounj]

According to my Town's Public Nurse ( we are to broke to have a real doctor ) , we are COVID 19 free. However the normal flu numbers are thru the roof.

 

[rickyb]

Bottles water for the rich folks in Ethiopia. The reason they always have soap is because they eat with their hands.

in high school my gf noticed i hold a spoon like a shovel

 

[rickyb]

Ryan Grim
@ryangrim
·
3h
Background: The Trump administration dithered and doesn’t have enough tests so is setting up procedural hurdles to ration them without admitting their failure
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Matt Pearce

@mattdpearce
· 8h
Pretty stark statement from a Kaiser nurse in NorCal who got sick after caring for a coronavirus patient, criticizing CDC for delays in testing. https://act.nationalnursesunited.org/page/-/files/graphics/NU-Quarantine-RN-press-conf-statement.pdf

 

[Old Man Jingles]

in high school my gf noticed i hold a spoon like a shovel

Coke spoon?

 

[rickyb]

WE HAVE NO INTELLLLIGEEEENCE:


Matt Stoller
@matthewstoller
·
3h
There is no functional Federal government in the U.S.
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Julia Lindau
@julialindau
· 6h
I just landed at JFK after reporting on #coronavirus in Milan and Lombardy —the epicenter of Italy’s outbreak— for @vicenews. I walked right through US customs. They didn’t ask me where in Italy I went or if I came into contact with sick people. They didn’t ask me anything.

 

[rickyb]

Matt Stoller Retweeted

Frank Pasquale
@FrankPasquale
·
4h
Most US airline tickets are non-refundable, or have extremely high cancellation/change fees. That puts enormous pressure on organizers & attendees not to cancel events. We'll look back on pro-corporate, one-sided contracts as one driver of this pandemic.
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Robert Nelsen
@rtnarch
· Mar 4
The stupidity of bringing 100,000 people to Comic Con in Seattle when there is unchecked community spread of COVID19 is hard to underestimate.

 

[rickyb]

Farhad Manjoo
@fmanjoo
·
6h
This is such an absolutely cluster. They are either intentionally undertesting to juke the stats or they are incompetently undertesting because the people running this are clowns.

 

[bbsam]

Did they mention members @bbsam, @It will be fine or @MrFedEx on Brown Cafe?

Have you been listening to the president?

 

[Old Man Jingles]

Have you been listening to the president?

Not much ... did he mention you?

 

[rickyb]

Have you been listening to the president?

he had verbal ass bleeding and said people can go to work with it

 

[bbsam]

Did they mention members @bbsam, @It will be fine or @MrFedEx on Brown Cafe?

Actually, I’d like your perspective. If there’s nothing to this, why are market traders so stupid? Oh, and why are people dying from it? And tangentially, what would happen if an American company brought in a vaccine from out of country, marketed it without proper testing and it turned out to make the problem worse?

 

[bbsam]

Not much ... did he mention you?

No. Do you trust his information?

 

[DriveInDriveOut]

Ryan Grim
@ryangrim
·
3h
Background: The Trump administration dithered and doesn’t have enough tests so is setting up procedural hurdles to ration them without admitting their failure
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Matt Pearce

@mattdpearce
· 8h
Pretty stark statement from a Kaiser nurse in NorCal who got sick after caring for a coronavirus patient, criticizing CDC for delays in testing. https://act.nationalnursesunited.org/page/-/files/graphics/NU-Quarantine-RN-press-conf-statement.pdf

Fake