Tech companies should be forced to reveal 'rampant' COVID-19 misinformation, health experts say

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Misleading social media content should be brought to light so the full extent of the problem can be recognised, a coalition of Australian tech and health experts have argued.

Once a misleading post has received more than 1,000 cumulative impressions on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram or other social media sites, it should be added to the 'Live List' which would be made available to government officials, researchers and journalists, the coalition argues.

"The only people who currently enjoy a bird's-eye view on the spread of COVID-19 misinformation are the Big Tech giants themselves." “I’ve spoken with heartbroken parents who chose not to vaccinate their children after being scared by online misinformation, only to have their children die or suffer serious consequences from a vaccine-preventable disease," said Ms Hughes, who lost her own son to whooping cough before he was old enough to be vaccinated against the disease.

 

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Yes thank you for acknowledging the scandalous misinformation of 16 March 2020 that Australia could expect 50,000 deaths from Covid (actually the estimate was 50,000-150,000 deaths) whereas there have been 909 actual deaths from Covid in Australia. PostPandemicOz

Like when the WHO said the virus did not spread from human to human? Inside every progressive there is a little communist waiting to come out.

Who checks the fact checkers? And who checks them?

Ah, the technofascists: 'we grossly misread and overstated the Covid problem with dodgy models and compounded that with terrible tests, but, hey - have faith in us and give us more power over your lives'. scamdemic Plandemic AIER Aug 20 2020:

Like politicians lying? Or does this only target the hoi polloi?

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