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• @rasmus_kleis Rasmus Kleis Nielsen on x

  “Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have declined to remove Mr. Trump's statements posted online in video clips and transcriptions of the briefing, saying he did not specifically direct people to pursue the unproven treatments” @sheeraf and @daveyalba report https://www.nytimes.com/..…

• @nytimestech @nytimestech on x

  A @nytimes analysis found 768 Facebook groups, 277 Facebook pages, nine Instagram accounts and thousands of tweets pushing UV light therapies to fight the virus that were posted after President Trump made comments about the unproven treatments last week. https://www.nytimes.com/.…

• @moonalice Roger McNamee on x

  This headline drives me crazy. Really, @nytimes? “Trips up” makes it sound inadvertent, as opposed to what it really is: a business strategy. https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @paulwrblanchard Paul Blanchard on x

  This is a problem for the social media giants. They promised to remove harmful misinformation. Zuckerberg said promoting bleach as a cure for coronavirus was “misinformation that has imminent risk of danger.” Yet they still publish Trump's lies on it... https://www.nytimes.com/..…

• @evan_greer Evan Greer on x

  Platforms like Facebook should NOT be the arbiters of truth. There SHOULD be space to debate various responses, alternative medicines, question authority, etc The problem is Facebook is not a place for discussion at all. Its a data-harvesting & micro-targeted advertising machine …

• @nytimes @nytimes on x

  Social media companies' inaction on posts echoing President Trump's remarks on UV lights and disinfectants stands out because the companies have said for weeks that they would not permit false information about the coronavirus to proliferate https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @daveyalba Davey Alba on x

  I got harassed a ton for this story, so please read it! https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @eorden Erica Orden on x

  “In some Facebook groups that have hundreds of thousands of followers, people posted photographs of chemical agents that they said they planned to consume...In hundreds of comments, people also offered advice on how to procure and ingest the disinfectants” https://www.nytimes.com…

• @dpfunke Daniel Funke on x

  “A New York Times analysis found 780 Facebook groups, 290 Facebook pages, nine Instagram accounts and thousands of tweets pushing UV light therapies that were posted after Mr. Trump's comments.” https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @jilliancyork Jillian C. York on x

  Silicon Valley is myopic and US-centric. I'm not surprised. https://twitter.com/...

• @jesselehrich Jesse Lehrich on x

  “In some Facebook groups that have 100,000+ followers, people posted photographs of chemical agents that they said they planned to consume” https://twitter.com/...

• @ceciliakang Cecilia Kang on x

  important piece on how misinformation on COVID continues to spread inside Facebook https://twitter.com/...

• @avaaz @avaaz on x

  Thank you @RepAdamSchiff for calling on @Twitter @Google @YouTube to retroactively notify all users who have interacted with harmful COVID-19 misinformation, and for them to “correct the record” with factual and life-saving information (1/3) https://schiff.house.gov/...

• @repadamschiff Adam Schiff on x

  Misinformation is dangerous. Misinformation about public health is deadly. I sent a letter to the CEOs of @Google, @YouTube and @Twitter urging them to proactively inform users when they've interacted with medical misinformation. They can help save lives. https://twitter.com/...

• @jaredhecht Jared Hecht on x

  Congressman says “Follow Facebook's lead”?!?!?! Hell has officially frozen over and it is the end of times. https://twitter.com/...

• @lauren_feiner Lauren Feiner on x

  When was the last time a D.C. lawmaker used Facebook as a *positive* example of misinformation policy? https://www.cnbc.com/...