Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang's "An Ugly Truth" reveals why Mark Zuckerberg's denials that Facebook is a Covid-19 conspiracy superspreader are laughable
You pull together some truly important factors here: the spread of disinformation about important social concerns like public health and elections, and the international implications of Facebook and its involvement in organizing genocide. You are right to call out frauds like Mercola who has profited directly from pushing his agenda against common sense healthcare, like vaccines. You don't touch on -- how could you touch on ALL the depredations that Zuckerberg and Co. are engaged in in one post? Impossible! -- how millions of women are defrauded by men via fake FB accounts who message them and pretend to have romantic interests. Older women are particular targets of this behavior and FB takes no responsibility for it. For shame!
Am horribly bothered by your focus on alleged 'anti-vaxxers' as disinformers. Every political/social issues always has a range of people with some well informed and capable of discussing the facts and others who are strictly emotional reactors with little communication ability which does not make them wrong, just not well intellectually developed.
What disturbs me is how you fall into the belief that any question of vaccine safety is disinformation and you seem to not be aware of the 1000's of doctors and researchers who question the safety of vaccine drugs--which in fact is all that they are. You seem to have bought into the corporate propaganda which is designed to sell billions of dollars of a drug that has had virtually no testing and is using the public as guinea pigs, by their own admission! To me that is promoting disinformation and supporting the corporate agenda of trying to destroy anyone who creates enough of a power base that it can have influence.
What would have been much more meaningful is a discussion on free speech and how FB has been enlisted by the government to suppress freedom of speech for those who question the base of corporate power and profit. Zuckerberg, himself, has admitted publicly how the government came to him to request/require FB do the free speech suppression that the govt could not do legally. FB has become the decision-maker of what is 'fake news' without any research into verifiable facts before deplatforming anyone. The issue, of course, is that this is acceptable as FB is being used to suppress free speech. If you did an analysis/comparison of what is suppressed and what is not I think you would find evidence that FB only suppresses what the corporate/govt wants suppressed and doesn't give a hoot about supporting teen suicides or racist/ethnic murders around the world or Israel's slaughter of Palestinians as part of their genocidal policies aimed at gaining total control over what they call historic Palestine. Thus, the public is being prevented from discussing EMFs, Vaccine safety, and Covid--these 3 issues being central to the global plans by the corporate elites who have created this current hysteria to bring the public under control and accept our loss of civil liberties. I refer you to the WEF and its program called the Great Reset which clearly defines direction to where we, the people, are being pushed.
FYI, Joseph Mercola is a very credible health practitioner who intensely researches his information. He also references many medical and research professionals and interviews many of them regularly. His personal experience in vaccinating children is one of the initial experiences which led him to look into the research behind these drugs. He is far from alone. I can also point you to many scientists like Dr. Robert Malone who is the 'inventor' of the Spike Protein in 1989, who has now come out warning against its dangers. He has been deplatformed. I would question the reasons why people with decades of science and practice are being so attacked when they raise questions which is what they and everyone else should be doing if they put their fears and beliefs into perspective. As you might well know, nothing in science is ever settled!
Well, I asked readers to say what they think, and you took me up on it. But I would say that this comment is picked with discredited ideas. There is, indeed, plenty of proof that vaccines work: it's how smallpox was eliminated, and why diphtheria, polio, and measles--major childhood killers that swept through families and neighborhoods prior to WWII--have been almost eliminated in the United States (except in pockets of the unvaccinated.) It's why teenage boys are no longer sterilized from the mumps.
I think you should read this book--it musters tons of evidence that Zuckerberg spends millions every year on lobbyists, has never invested in moderation at scale, and has fought government regulation every step of the way.
And I want to add that there is plenty of evidence that Joseph Mercola is not just a fraud, but that he spreads disinformation in order to market equally fraudulent products. Follow that link, if you would.
Hooray you don’t get points for knowing about Mercola. The quackery of some does not invalidate all the other credible reasons one might experience hesitancy.
I seriously doubt you ever did research on vaccines and all their failures and damages caused by them. Every disease you mention was on the wane when the vaccines were created for them. Polio is a set of symptoms that comes and goes in societies typically related to various toxins that affect people and their immune system. Polio is no different. It blew in and left and then the vaccine was put on the market. You would see this if you did any real research into the CDC data where they show the bell curves of various diseases and their wane followed by a vaccine. Polio is no different and since the vaccine just about every case of it was/is from the vaccine itself. Even the CDC recognizes the scourge of autism is from vaccine damage!
As for Joseph Mercola you are simply repeating the propaganda attacks on him. I doubt you ever followed his articles, interviews with scientists and medical people or even used his products which actually are of very high quality.
I do suggest you spend more time studying how propaganda works and how the 1% control virtually all the media to ensure a single narrative for the public which is typically too lazy and too full of their belief systems about this country to ever research anything of importance.
You write: "As you might well know, nothing in science is ever settled!" If that were true, you would have no electricity in your home and no one would take antibiotics, to cite two examples out of hundreds of millions of scientific questions that are absolutely settled without question. Vaccines work. Irresponsible speech is not the same as free speech. We can argue about how to respond to irresponsible speech, but lies are easily discovered. Unless of course we repeat them until they start sounding "truthy".
Just want to say: this is a 24-hour ban, and the reason was that the repetitiousness of the comments and my strong belief that this is not good information.
You pull together some truly important factors here: the spread of disinformation about important social concerns like public health and elections, and the international implications of Facebook and its involvement in organizing genocide. You are right to call out frauds like Mercola who has profited directly from pushing his agenda against common sense healthcare, like vaccines. You don't touch on -- how could you touch on ALL the depredations that Zuckerberg and Co. are engaged in in one post? Impossible! -- how millions of women are defrauded by men via fake FB accounts who message them and pretend to have romantic interests. Older women are particular targets of this behavior and FB takes no responsibility for it. For shame!
Am horribly bothered by your focus on alleged 'anti-vaxxers' as disinformers. Every political/social issues always has a range of people with some well informed and capable of discussing the facts and others who are strictly emotional reactors with little communication ability which does not make them wrong, just not well intellectually developed.
What disturbs me is how you fall into the belief that any question of vaccine safety is disinformation and you seem to not be aware of the 1000's of doctors and researchers who question the safety of vaccine drugs--which in fact is all that they are. You seem to have bought into the corporate propaganda which is designed to sell billions of dollars of a drug that has had virtually no testing and is using the public as guinea pigs, by their own admission! To me that is promoting disinformation and supporting the corporate agenda of trying to destroy anyone who creates enough of a power base that it can have influence.
What would have been much more meaningful is a discussion on free speech and how FB has been enlisted by the government to suppress freedom of speech for those who question the base of corporate power and profit. Zuckerberg, himself, has admitted publicly how the government came to him to request/require FB do the free speech suppression that the govt could not do legally. FB has become the decision-maker of what is 'fake news' without any research into verifiable facts before deplatforming anyone. The issue, of course, is that this is acceptable as FB is being used to suppress free speech. If you did an analysis/comparison of what is suppressed and what is not I think you would find evidence that FB only suppresses what the corporate/govt wants suppressed and doesn't give a hoot about supporting teen suicides or racist/ethnic murders around the world or Israel's slaughter of Palestinians as part of their genocidal policies aimed at gaining total control over what they call historic Palestine. Thus, the public is being prevented from discussing EMFs, Vaccine safety, and Covid--these 3 issues being central to the global plans by the corporate elites who have created this current hysteria to bring the public under control and accept our loss of civil liberties. I refer you to the WEF and its program called the Great Reset which clearly defines direction to where we, the people, are being pushed.
FYI, Joseph Mercola is a very credible health practitioner who intensely researches his information. He also references many medical and research professionals and interviews many of them regularly. His personal experience in vaccinating children is one of the initial experiences which led him to look into the research behind these drugs. He is far from alone. I can also point you to many scientists like Dr. Robert Malone who is the 'inventor' of the Spike Protein in 1989, who has now come out warning against its dangers. He has been deplatformed. I would question the reasons why people with decades of science and practice are being so attacked when they raise questions which is what they and everyone else should be doing if they put their fears and beliefs into perspective. As you might well know, nothing in science is ever settled!
Well, I asked readers to say what they think, and you took me up on it. But I would say that this comment is picked with discredited ideas. There is, indeed, plenty of proof that vaccines work: it's how smallpox was eliminated, and why diphtheria, polio, and measles--major childhood killers that swept through families and neighborhoods prior to WWII--have been almost eliminated in the United States (except in pockets of the unvaccinated.) It's why teenage boys are no longer sterilized from the mumps.
I think you should read this book--it musters tons of evidence that Zuckerberg spends millions every year on lobbyists, has never invested in moderation at scale, and has fought government regulation every step of the way.
And I want to add that there is plenty of evidence that Joseph Mercola is not just a fraud, but that he spreads disinformation in order to market equally fraudulent products. Follow that link, if you would.
Hooray you don’t get points for knowing about Mercola. The quackery of some does not invalidate all the other credible reasons one might experience hesitancy.
I seriously doubt you ever did research on vaccines and all their failures and damages caused by them. Every disease you mention was on the wane when the vaccines were created for them. Polio is a set of symptoms that comes and goes in societies typically related to various toxins that affect people and their immune system. Polio is no different. It blew in and left and then the vaccine was put on the market. You would see this if you did any real research into the CDC data where they show the bell curves of various diseases and their wane followed by a vaccine. Polio is no different and since the vaccine just about every case of it was/is from the vaccine itself. Even the CDC recognizes the scourge of autism is from vaccine damage!
As for Joseph Mercola you are simply repeating the propaganda attacks on him. I doubt you ever followed his articles, interviews with scientists and medical people or even used his products which actually are of very high quality.
I do suggest you spend more time studying how propaganda works and how the 1% control virtually all the media to ensure a single narrative for the public which is typically too lazy and too full of their belief systems about this country to ever research anything of importance.
Found a nazi.
You write: "As you might well know, nothing in science is ever settled!" If that were true, you would have no electricity in your home and no one would take antibiotics, to cite two examples out of hundreds of millions of scientific questions that are absolutely settled without question. Vaccines work. Irresponsible speech is not the same as free speech. We can argue about how to respond to irresponsible speech, but lies are easily discovered. Unless of course we repeat them until they start sounding "truthy".
Just want to say: this is a 24-hour ban, and the reason was that the repetitiousness of the comments and my strong belief that this is not good information.