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OT - Apple should have removed Telegram months ago. Telegram has been used to share some very bad COVID disinformation. My father who is older and lives in Ir
by salimmadjd 6y ago
OT - Apple should have removed Telegram months ago.
Telegram has been used to share some very bad COVID disinformation.
My father who is older and lives in Iran shared with me this video about how to treat COVID. It was produced really nicely in the Farsi (Persian) language.
Anyone who has ever read the book "Made to Stick" (highly recommended) would immediately that this video was designed to be a viral disinformation campaign.
The video started so credibility talking about the virus, the family of virus it belongs to, it talked about genetics similarities, etc. All seem very credible. Then it comes the disinformation gotcha:
To defeat COVID (with some beautiful inside the lungs animation ) talking about alveoli and how they function, when you are indoor you need to laugh deeply and very hard. This laughing hard gets rid of the virus, etc. etc.
Great idea, right? Seems like a way to exacerbate the spread of a deadly virus.
To me the quality of video made me think it was probably produce by a state or entity working for a state with budget.
If that is so I considered this incident as one of the first examples of using disinformation to commit genocide.
The problem with Telegram team working from the United Arab Emirates, it's unclear to me if it's being used to weaponize disinformation for evil means or not.
From what I have seen, I believe, Telegram is being misused and it needs to be removed from the App Store.
- aero-glide 6y agoYou can access disinformation through Safari. Should Safari be removed?
- salimmadjd 6y agoComparing Safari with Telegram makes no sense. As they are so different in so many ways.
- hu3 6y agoYou can access disinformation through any group chat app. Should all be removed?
- salimmadjd 6y agoSo you are okay with COVID disinformation to be weaponized to commit genocide? There is a threshold that "group chat" becomes a channel. Which is exactly what even Telegram calls them. It's no different than if KKK had a YouTube channel and freely spreads disinformation or doxed anyone they don't like. We would expect YouTube to have certain guidelines that prevents disinformation and hate channels to takeover YouTube. Telegram should either have a way to better monitor these channels, or remove the channel functionally. If they're unable or unwilling then, Apple should remove the app. (edit typo)
- hu3 6y agoWhere did I say that "I'm okay with COVID disinformation to be weaponized to commit genocide"? Talk about going on a tangent. And if we're realy going to move the goalpost from "Apple bending over to a totalitarian regime" to "health related missinformation": Facebook has groups that are openly anti-vaxx yet I don't see Apple threatening to remove Facebook app: "Vaccine Resistance Movement: VRM Updates & News From The Trenches Public group" - 39.4K members (https://www.facebook.com/groups/VaccineResistanceMovement/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/VaccineResistanceMovement/) By your logic, Apple seems to be okay with disinformation-induced "genocide". That group even has anti-mask related posts...