Mark Zuckerberg says employees shouldn’t have to confront social issues in their day-to-day work unless they want to Facebook Inc. is moving to curb internal debate around divisive political and social topics, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday, after a spate of disputes and criticism that has fueled discord among staffers. The steps will include…
Day: September 18, 2020
CNBC reports “Facebook is cracking down on groups that give health advice and promote violence”
Facebook on Thursday announced new policies that will limit the spread of groups on its social network that focus on giving users health advice, as well as groups with ties to violence. The company will no longer show health groups in its recommendations, saying a blog post that “it’s crucial that people get their health information from authoritative…
Fox News reports “Dr. Scott Atlas says YouTube censorship of coronavirus information reminiscent of ‘third world countries'”
‘We are sort of teetering on the edge of what is done in third world countries,’ Atlas said “Dr. Atlas did what you can absolutely not do ever in this brave new world they’ve created,” Tucker Carlson said on his show Wednesday. “He pointed out that statistical models, the technocrats use to justify their’s existence have been catastrophically wrong.” Atlas said the…
WebMD reports “Half of Pediatricians Dismiss Anti-Vaccine Families”
Parents who choose to forgo or delay their children’s vaccinations may quickly find themselves without a pediatrician. Just over half (51%) of pediatric offices in the United States have a policy to dismiss families that refuse childhood vaccines, a nationwide survey found. Thirty-seven percent of pediatricians themselves said they often dismissed families for refusing vaccines, and 6% said they…
Medscape reports “Paul Offit’s Biggest Concern About COVID Vaccines”
Topol: Well, that gets us to the public trust and the fact that willingness to have the vaccine is important. Because if there is terrible mistrust, we won’t ever get to the level of immunity in the population. Offit: It’s hard to promote trust now absent data. Once we know the characteristics of these vaccines, it’ll be…