Editor of @bmj_latest @KamranAbbasi on Facebook (& the Danish mask study):
"A disagreement among experts, especially about interpretation of a study, is a common occurrence. It is the usual business of science. Only, Facebook didn’t see it that way…
bmj.com/content/371/bm…
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"A disagreement among experts, especially about interpretation of a study, is a common occurrence. It is the usual business of science. Only, Facebook didn’t see it that way…
bmj.com/content/371/bm…
1/7
"The social media platform that allows statements about injecting bleach to prevent covid-19, [and] calls to behead the leading US expert on pandemics, decreed… Heneghan & Jefferson should be censured for misinformation after they reposted their Spectator article on [FB]…
2/7
2/7
"It is possible to disagree with Heneghan and Jefferson about the robustness and interpretation of the DANMASK-19 trial—which I do—and still believe it is wrong that their opinion of it was marked as “false information.”…
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"It seems 2020 is Orwell’s 1984, where the boundaries of public discourse are governed by multibillion dollar corporations (in place of a totalitarian regime) and secret algorithms coded by unidentified employees…
4/7
4/7
"Where is Facebook’s accountability for the lies and damaging misinformation that it has peddled on controversial topics such as mental health and suicides, minorities, and vaccines?…
5/7
5/7
"The problem is less that Facebook & other [SoMe] decide what is published on their platforms, just as… BMJ’s editors decide what is published on bmj.com. …Baron Cohen and …Cadwalladr, among others, have argued… this is exactly what [they] should do…
6/7
6/7
"It is more that Facebook in particular purports to allow freedom of speech on its platform but acts selectively, seemingly without logic, consistency, or transparency. That is how control of facts and opinions furthers hidden agendas and manipulates the public."
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