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Facebook suppressed report that made it look bad
- thethethethe 5y agoIn other news: water is wet
- peterlk 5y agoFor anyone else who looks at the comments first, there is nothing to see here. I was hoping for a link to the original report, but this article just states that some VP didn't want an internally generated report to go out because the top shared content wasn't a good look.
- Chazprime 5y agoColor me surprised.
- gojomo 5y agoAlt headline: To support public health priorities, Facebook withheld report that risked spreading vaccine fears. It’s all how you spin it!
- hhsub 5y agoThey should've amplified it instead. Posted it on the login page.
- saltmeister 5y agooh no!
- bryan0 5y agoThe most-viewed headline in the quarter was: > “A ‘healthy’ doctor died two weeks after getting a COVID-19 vaccine; CDC is investigating why.” Yeah not a great look.
- ineedasername 5y agoThat death has since been investigated and determined to be natural causes. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/miami-beach/article250539119.html https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.miamiherald.com/news/local/...
- hellgas00 5y agoThat's not exactly what the article you post says; "Dr. Gregory Michael’s official cause of death stemmed from complications with immune thrombocytopenia, or ITP, a blood disorder caused by an immune reaction, after getting the Pfizer vaccine, the Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner Department said."
- slownews45 5y agoWhat's interesting is that an immune reaction is the GOAL of a vaccine. How did they turn this into "natural causes". BTW I'm fully vaxed and looking forward to my booster. But I'm not dumb enough to imagine there is no side effect to a vacine that is designed to generate something in my blood to help me fight covid. Blood / heart stuff seems like a somewhat natural area to find occasional side effects?
- cxf12 5y agoYou don't have to imagine it. Side affects are tracked by the CDC.
- ctoth 5y agoDoes anyone else enjoy the linguistic contortions this article must engage in to spin this poor doctor's cause of death as "natural?" Even writing this comment makes me feel like some sort of weird anti-vaccer but seriously what the heck, words have meanings and I am going to push back against this! Sometimes, vaccines, just like literally anything else, have negative side effects. It sucks, but to pretend that oh, this was just a natural death? This seriously makes people look insane. What the heck possibly motivated you to post this and spin it like that? Did you read the link you posted? Or did you merely post this because it was sufficiently ridiculous and you are making a meta point?
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- wolverine876 5y agoThe actual NY Times article which broke the story is also on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28257958 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28257958
- marto1 5y agoSo they are at the same time both neutral and heavily biased. Isn't that true innovation - being the first company to exist in a quantum superposition :-)
- paulddraper 5y agoThey're hardly the first. Every media company is unbiased-but-not.
- nowherebeen 5y agoMarketing vs reality
- joe_the_user 5y agoFB suppressing the accounts of the NYU researchers was a deeply problematic. FB choosing not to release a report that they, themselves generated, was FB acting as any corporation does. If every company was assigned an internal watchdog whose reports they couldn't suppress, I'd be fine with that. But that's not happening and companies have the freedom to publish or not publish whatever information they choose.
- jqpabc123 5y agoWait? So FB needs a report to make it look bad?
- nzeribe 5y agoMore news at 11.
- 123jay7 5y ago"Help help I'm being suppressed!"
- b0tzzzzzzman 5y agoShocked..