not with an interstitial telling people they can go read an article for more information
I agree with this statement. Facebook made an error in judgement in how they dealt with the problem.
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- Feb 2022
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www.wired.com www.wired.com
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One idea is to treat fake news as a distribution problem, treating it more like spam.
All these years after we began using email. we are still dealing with SPAM. My junk folder is consistently full. I think the issue at hand is recognition. We recognize SPAM for what it is but are still grappling with how to recognize misinformation.
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there’s no way to have biased human editors if there are no humans.
Humans program algorithms and embed their biases into the code. The best way to ensure balance is to have human oversight.
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Facebook employees were suppressing conservative news.
This was around the time that I deleted my Facebook account because it had too much conservative news going through my feeds. Politics in general took over social media around that time.
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they bore some responsibility for what their algorithms circulated.
I can understand why social media companies did not want to censor in a heavy-handed way when they first appeared. The openness and availability of different kinds of viewpoints is what was appealing. Then the bad actors appeared and learned how to turn a mostly harmless site where you play Farmville with your aunt to something that is malicious and based around a false sense of reality. When people can buy bot armies to manipulate the site, it just isn't fun anymore.
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- Jan 2022
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www.nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com
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Saint-Onge may have walked away from this cohort of customers, but for those who sold it, BOO was more than just a product; it was a way of believing.
People believe so much in certain miracle sures that it's like a religion for them. It will take a lot to sway sellers of BOO away from it. I really hope that they are able to shut down this company before people ingesting it become ill. Lead and arsenic are very dangerous, especially to children. I shudder to think about the baby soaking in a bathtub of lead-filled BOO.
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Ceara Manchester, a stay-at-home mother in Pompano Beach, Florida, helps run one of the largest anti-BOO Facebook groups, “Boo is Woo.” Manchester, 34, has spent the last four years monitoring predatory MLMs — or “cults,” in her view — and posting to multiple social media accounts and groups dedicated to “exposing” Black Oxygen Organics.
There has been a lot of anti-MLM information shared online, and it needs to be promoted more. I first learned about it on the Cult News Network run by cult expert Rick Ross. These types of companies have targeted mostly stay-at-home moms who want to earn extra money and instead get exploited by a company that a lot of work for little money.
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Wong quit taking BOO and told the head of her Facebook group, a higher-ranked seller who earned commission off Wong’s participation, about her new pains. When asked why she didn’t alert others, Wong said the group administrators, BOO sellers themselves, censored the comments to weed out anything negative. “They’d never let me post that,” she said.
Multi-level marketing companies are set up so sellers are motivated to give glowing testimonies in order to get others to become sellers and increase their earnings. It's similar to a corporate CEO reviewing his own products. In order to find out the truth, you need to search outside of the official company channels.
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Monica Wong first learned about BOO in May. The 39-year-old was scrolling Facebook from her home in Brentwood, California, and saw a Facebook ad that caught her eye: A woman in a bright green shirt emblazoned with a marijuana leaf holding a sign that read, “F--- Big Pharma!” alongside a kind of treatment that promised to
This is the target audience for these types of scams. Women with money to spend who are worried that they are getting older and want to reclaim their health. Similar to another scam in the early 2010s: Adya Clarity was touted as a miracle by those who were selling it for a high price. https://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2011/11/01/has-mike-adams-had-a-sudden-attack-of-co
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