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> They had to properly fact-check it and educate the viewers. They weren't doing that. They were pushing an agenda. It was not rare to see a "false informati
by meragrin_ 6y ago
> They had to properly fact-check it and educate the viewers.
They weren't doing that. They were pushing an agenda. It was not rare to see a "false information" flag only to see the "fact-checking" article support the claim. One particular claim I saw marked false was China did not need a vaccine to keep covid under control. The article went on and on about everything other than vaccine. There were like three or four lines talking about vaccines. Those were mostly about how the Chinese weren't anti-vaccine. At the time of the "fact-checking" article, there were only about 1 million Chinese vaccinated which was still in testing. That is just a drop in the bucket compared to the total population. The source articles the "fact-checking" article linked to did not even mention vaccines. Sounds more like pushing an agenda rather than fact-checking and educating.
- scotty79 6y agoI'm not saying they were doing it perfectly. But at least they were trying to do something to address the root cause that people are gullible. You can't ban publishing lies because that's what more than half of human culture is. The thing you can and should do is put dangerous lies in factual context.