🧵ICYMI: @DCodeDemocracy's @AnnMRavel & @MarkedByCovid's @kdurquiza talk about how to fignt #vaccine #disinformation and end #Covid_19 in @CNN's Perspectives:
cnn.com/2021/09/01/per…
cnn.com/2021/09/01/per…
https://twitter.com/kdurquiza/status/1433478003091120139
In May 2020, just before AZ's infection rate soared, Gov @dougducey encouraged residents not to stay home. "I want to encourage people to get out and about," Ducey told listeners of a popular radio show. "If you don't have an underlying health condition, it's safe out there."
The interview was then shared on @Facebook and @Twitter. Many people listened to that dangerous advice — and many, including @kdurquiza's father, Mark Urquiza, paid with their lives after contracting the disease.
Disinformation and misinformation about masks, vaccines and other Covid-19-related topics has been spreading like wildfire across social media.
But major social media companies are failing to prevent disinformation from spreading rampantly and wreaking havoc on public health.
But major social media companies are failing to prevent disinformation from spreading rampantly and wreaking havoc on public health.
We must demand social media companies take serious steps to curb vaccine disinformation:
🔻Enhance monitoring of high-reach accounts
🔻Be more transparent
🔻Tweak the algorithms
🔻Get the US government more involved
🔻Enhance monitoring of high-reach accounts
🔻Be more transparent
🔻Tweak the algorithms
🔻Get the US government more involved
There's no silver bullet; we need social media companies and our gov't to do everything they can to chip away at the problem. Until then, online conspiracy theories and lies will continue to impact all of us while fueling one of the most deadly viruses in modern history.
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