POV: Health Misinformation Is Rampant on Social Media

www.bu.edu /articles/2024/health-misinformation-rampant-on-social-media/

POV: Health Misinformation Is Rampant on Social Media::Monica Wang argues that health misinformation on social media is fueling the global anti-vaccination campaign and offers suggestions for how to combat it.

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I hate how everybody's misusing POV lately. It's just being thrown around without any relevant meaning or context, and if this trend continues it's going to fuck up my porn search results.
- I didn't even notice POV in the title till you mentioned it. It's so overused that I must have ignored it
  
  Why even, surely it doesn't increase engagement?
  
  buzzword
  
  At least it's used correctly, in this case.
You could always waste your time and report them. As if that will do anything.
- My favorite is when you report them and then get a message from support saying that it doesn't violate their rules
  
  Happens all the time on Facebook
  
  Yep, my experience:
  
  Reddit: decent with reports, they often act (on certain report types) and give you an update when something is done
  
  Facebook/Instagram: most of the time there's no reply, and when there is a reply it's "doesn't violate anything". Only once or twice did I get something removed, and it was a stuff like direct threats to another user in the comment section
  
  Google/YouTube: Never hear back about anything. The reports go straight into a trashcan for all I know
  
  just leave the service
…and that’s exactly what you’ll get, Moron.
- Right after they take a bunch of other people with them.
  
  DV’d. Huh. I actually meant their body would be dead without vaccines. Must have come off like I’m a loon,…er ‘anti-vaxer’.
  
  Or, Lemmy is rife with cra, …er, ‘anti-vaxers”
It should say "Over my dead child's body"

You only have to vaccinate the children you want to keep.
May I just say that the dipshits who believe this stuff are really not worth saving?!?!?!
- I get where you're coming from. But not everyone who falls for this stuff is "stupid". Some are just vulnerable - maybe just temporarily - and once you're in, it's an awful slippery slope.
  
  I don't know how many are just vulnerable and how many are good Darwin award nominees.
  
  @technology @Tristaniopsis
- What do you mean? Worth to whom?
  
  Also, these people aren't just harming themselves; they're harming everyone around them. A vaccine isn't like a seat belt. It doesn't just protect you. It also protects the people around you. Additionally, by having a weaker immune system, these people are making their bodies breeding grounds for viruses which can mutate into new forms.
  
  Well exactly.
  
  I’m not sure why my comment has gone from being agreed with, to being controversial.
  
  Anti-vaxers can fuck off and die, but preferably somewhere else, so as not to compromise anyone else’s safety.
  
  I feel sorry for their kids and others that they hold hostage to their stupid views.
- You know who is worth saving? People who are unable to get vaccinated. They are extremely vulnerable to things like mumps, measles, and rubella, for instance because many of them are immunocompromised.
  
  Yes that fine. I’m not talking about the immunocompromised, and it’s pretty clear that I’m not.
  
  It’s the conspiracy-eating idiots that my broad brush is painting.
- I fully admit I didn't trust the vaccine when it was announced and was on the fence. Mostly because I didn't trust the Whitehouse administration. Someone on reddit pointed out studies conducted in Germany, I read them, and changed my mind. When it became available for my age group I went and got it.
  
  Now I concede that I might be infact a dipshit, but I have a family that depends on me. My kids are innocent and don't deserve to grow up without a dad because of a very avoidable problem.
  
  So yeah I get the anger and it is tempting to look at people and write them off, but chances are if they are removed from the world other people suffer.

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