One of, and most important reason I post about misinformation and truth is the constant posting of plain out false conspiracy theories about everything, but sadly not excluding this virus and attempts to save lives.
FOR EXAMPLE.....
"CNN. ABC News. The New York Times. Fox News.
Those are the publishers of four of the five most popular Facebook posts of articles about the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine this week. They're ranked 2 to 5 in total interactions, according to data from the tracking tool CrowdTangle."
"The No. 1 posting, however, isn't from a news organization. Or a government official. Or a public health expert."
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"The most popular link on Facebook about the Johnson & Johnson news was shared by a conspiracy theorist and self-described "news analyst & hip-hop artist" named An0maly who thinks the pandemic is a cover for government control.
It's a stark example of what experts warn could be a coming deluge of false or misleading information related to the one-shot vaccine."
J&J Vaccine Pause Creates 'Perfect Storm' For Misinformation : NPR
While this poster has had problems in the past with TRUTH, Facebook will do nothing about this.......it is called " gray area misinformation"
"Experts call this sort of tactic gray area misinformation and said it can have the same impact on an audience as blatant falsehoods when it's being received without proper context or by people with preconceived ideas."
As a country we get greatly agitated by information being "edited" by platforms, even though they contain blatant lies and or untruths.
We better wake up and address this because tolerance for lying and liars is becoming normal........there is not negative to simply going on line and lying about anything.
This has caused a great chasm in our country and has to be addressed.
COVID is serious and for me, there is no reason or room for spreading lies or misinformation about the disease.
If you do not know the truth, do not post.....or just shut up. There are so many websites that peddle nothing but false information to satisfy whatever movement they endorse, and sadly there appears to be enough lazy, uninformed folks who will follow them to the end of the earth (hopefully not literally).
I find this problem in so many areas and we just seem to accept it.......to me, that signal of acceptance is a very bad omen.
You certainly hold your own family to the truth........why do you accept and endorse lying on so many important issues ?