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Can we talk about how Facebook banned a post with a CDC link?
I saw this on the news last week. A guy in Ohio posted a CDC article about vaccine side effects. Not his opinion, just the official link. Facebook flagged it as misinformation and gave him a 30 day ban. I checked the article myself. It was the actual CDC site with a .gov address. So now you can't even share government health data without getting censored? Has anyone else run into this kind of thing where you got banned for sharing something from a source that's supposed to be legit?
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robin_wright25d ago
Oh man, this reminds me of when I tried to share a link to the NIH's own study on coffee and heart health in a health group. I thought it was a no-brainer, right? But the mod bots flagged it as "promoting unverified medical claims" and I got a warning. I even messaged the admins with the actual .gov URL and they said it didn't matter because the headline was "misleading" (it literally said "moderate coffee intake may reduce risk" or something super mild like that). So yeah, the system is completely broken when government pages get lumped in with random blog posts.
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