The Facebook Thread

[GoCubsGo]

Who is this guy and why should I care?

I looked him up. He's a "Facebook comedian". You should care because why wouldn't you trust a Facebook comedian over people that have studied infectious diseases their entire career?

Nah, I'm putting my trust in a has been right wing game show host.
Because my President said so.

[O Really]

Hey @AmariKing (whoever you are)

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2007800

Masks of all types are effective
Masks unquestionably reduce the spread of droplets from the nose and mouth, says Pekosz. Researchers recently demonstrated this fact when they recorded high-speed video of people uttering a simple phrase both when wearing and not wearing cloth masks. A slightly damp washcloth prevented nearly all of the speakers' droplets from passing through. Another study concluded that "the odds of developing an infection with a coronavirus were reduced by 78 percent when wearing any mask."

Even at less than 100 percent effectiveness, "you don't throw up your hands," Peter Chin-Hong, MD, an infectious disease specialist at the University of California, San Francisco, told UCSF News in June. "That's silly. Nobody's taking a cholesterol medicine because they're going to prevent a heart attack 100 percent of the time, but you're reducing your risk substantially."

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Facebook bars pro-Trump PAC from advertising, citing repeated false posts

Facebook Inc is temporarily banning a Republican political action committee, the Committee to Defend the President, from advertising after it repeatedly shared content that was deemed false by the social media company's external fact-checkers, it said on Thursday.

"As a result of the Committee to Defend the President's repeated sharing of content determined by third-party fact-checkers to be false, they will not be permitted to advertise for a period of time on our platform," Facebook spokesman Andy Stone said in a statement....

Like idol, like defenders:

In 1,267 days, President Trump has made 20,055 false or misleading claims
The Fact Checker’s ongoing database of the false or misleading claims made by President Trump since assuming office.
Updated July 9, 2020

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Facebook - everyone should just walk away

I strongly believe Facebook is responsible for much of our country's woes. People are goddamn stupid.

My wife plays there. I've given up trying to talk her out of it.

Everyone on Facebook is a strong adherent to FaCtS aNd LoGiC!11! Except the facts and logic they supposedly adhere to is more like "Feelings and emotions!"

My favorite is when dopes try to defend their completely idiotic reasoning by following up with "this is my opinion and I have a right to believe what I want!" Yes. I've seen this many times from many different people.

A surprising number of people that I used to know have completely gone off the deep end thanks to FB. They've burrowed deep into the butt hole of the conspiracy theory community.

Zuckerberg is not merely complicit, he is a source of evil.

Filmmaker Ken Burns calls Mark Zuckerberg an ‘enemy of the state’

... "This is an enemy of the state, and I mean the United States of America,” explained Burns. “He doesn’t give a s*** about us, the United States. He knows he can transcend it. He can get away to any place. And so it’s just about filthy lucre, that’s it."

Burns also criticised Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, calling her “complicit”.

“The Nuremberg of this, is if it ever happens, which it won’t, will be pretty interesting," said Burns. "The way that we’ve been able to temporise and say, ‘Oh, it’s OK, we’ll just go a little bit further,’ right?"

Last month, Burns was interviewed on MSNBC, where he said that Zuckerberg allowed "misinformation" to spread on Facebook during the “most fraught time” in US history.

In this same interview, he spoke about “Soviet style disinformation.”

“We’re at this desperate place, the convergence of all those viruses, the side effects of the misinformation and the paranoia and the lying, voter suppression,” said Burns.

“And then the rewriting of our history are saying that we’re not interested in facts. We’re not interested in the truth. We’re not interested in the many varied voices that make us up.” ...

If anyone knows it's the guy that studied and made accessible to tens of millions of Americans our Civil War. Here we go again?

[billy.pilgrim]

Facebook - everyone should just walk away

I strongly believe Facebook is responsible for much of our country's woes. People are goddamn stupid.

My wife plays there. I've given up trying to talk her out of it.

Everyone on Facebook is a strong adherent to FaCtS aNd LoGiC!11! Except the facts and logic they supposedly adhere to is more like "Feelings and emotions!"

My favorite is when dopes try to defend their completely idiotic reasoning by following up with "this is my opinion and I have a right to believe what I want!" Yes. I've seen this many times from many different people.

A surprising number of people that I used to know have completely gone off the deep end thanks to FB. They've burrowed deep into the butt hole of the conspiracy theory community.

Zuckerberg is not merely complicit, he is a source of evil.

Filmmaker Ken Burns calls Mark Zuckerberg an ‘enemy of the state’

... "This is an enemy of the state, and I mean the United States of America,” explained Burns. “He doesn’t give a s*** about us, the United States. He knows he can transcend it. He can get away to any place. And so it’s just about filthy lucre, that’s it."

Burns also criticised Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, calling her “complicit”.

“The Nuremberg of this, is if it ever happens, which it won’t, will be pretty interesting," said Burns. "The way that we’ve been able to temporise and say, ‘Oh, it’s OK, we’ll just go a little bit further,’ right?"

Last month, Burns was interviewed on MSNBC, where he said that Zuckerberg allowed "misinformation" to spread on Facebook during the “most fraught time” in US history.

In this same interview, he spoke about “Soviet style disinformation.”

“We’re at this desperate place, the convergence of all those viruses, the side effects of the misinformation and the paranoia and the lying, voter suppression,” said Burns.

“And then the rewriting of our history are saying that we’re not interested in facts. We’re not interested in the truth. We’re not interested in the many varied voices that make us up.” ...

If anyone knows it's the guy that studied and made accessible to tens of millions of Americans our Civil War. Here we go again?

Facebook was inevitable. Given Facebook as it is, it has and will continue to contribute to the divisions in our country caused by the spreading of lies and disinformation.
I don't see any way around it other than through education, but that ain't gonna happen with our schools turned into job mills for big business and the absolute fucked up situation with lack of accountability in home sculs.
The republicans have won their war against education, but they won't stop until we are a nation of idiots.
We have fox to thank for the destruction far more than Facebook.
It can get worse than a nation that elects a fake tv reality star to the presidency. The 2023 impeachment of Biden and Harris is on the horizon.

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Facebook was inevitable. Given Facebook as it is, it has and will continue to contribute to the divisions in our country caused by the spreading of lies and disinformation.
I don't see any way around it other than through education, but that ain't gonna happen with our schools turned into job mills for big business and the absolute fucked up situation with lack of accountability in home sculs.
The republicans have won their war against education, but they won't stop until we are a nation of idiots.
We have fox to thank for the destruction far more than Facebook.
It can get worse than a nation that elects a fake tv reality star to the presidency. The 2023 impeachment of Biden and Harris is on the horizon.

Social media is even contagious.

Psychiatrists have discovered that patients with tics have 'caught' a 'Tourette's-like' illness from social media

Psychiatrists have identified a new "Tourette-like" illness being spread through social media.

The "mass social media-induced illness" (MSMI) - more traditionally called a mass sociogenic illness, but with a new term being created to fit the new condition - is causing people to develop tics "caught" from social media videos of people ticcing.

A spike in patients presenting with functional tics has been attributed to the rise in social media content showing people ticcing, a group of psychiatrists in Germany have found....

The paper, published by the Oxford University Press, discusses the German internet fame of Jan Zimmermann, a YouTuber with 2.23 million subscribers on his channel Gewitter im Komf (Thunderstorm in Brain), who states he has Tourette's syndrome.

The clue that this illness was being "caught" from social media was that the tics were identical to Zimmermann's.

The mostly verbal tics included people saying "heil Hitler," "Du bist häßlich" (you are ugly) and "pommes" (chips)....

[GoCubsGo]

The world is temporarily a better place.

[GoCubsGo]

Ironic tweet of the day.

[neoplacebo]

If they want to get back to "normal" they should shut down and go home.

[Whack9]

I strongly believe Facebook is responsible for much of our country's woes. People are goddamn stupid.

My wife plays there. I've given up trying to talk her out of it.

Everyone on Facebook is a strong adherent to FaCtS aNd LoGiC!11! Except the facts and logic they supposedly adhere to is more like "Feelings and emotions!"

My favorite is when dopes try to defend their completely idiotic reasoning by following up with "this is my opinion and I have a right to believe what I want!" Yes. I've seen this many times from many different people.

A surprising number of people that I used to know have completely gone off the deep end thanks to FB. They've burrowed deep into the butt hole of the conspiracy theory community.

Zuckerberg is not merely complicit, he is a source of evil.

Filmmaker Ken Burns calls Mark Zuckerberg an ‘enemy of the state’

... "This is an enemy of the state, and I mean the United States of America,” explained Burns. “He doesn’t give a s*** about us, the United States. He knows he can transcend it. He can get away to any place. And so it’s just about filthy lucre, that’s it."

Burns also criticised Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, calling her “complicit”.

“The Nuremberg of this, is if it ever happens, which it won’t, will be pretty interesting," said Burns. "The way that we’ve been able to temporise and say, ‘Oh, it’s OK, we’ll just go a little bit further,’ right?"

Last month, Burns was interviewed on MSNBC, where he said that Zuckerberg allowed "misinformation" to spread on Facebook during the “most fraught time” in US history.

In this same interview, he spoke about “Soviet style disinformation.”

“We’re at this desperate place, the convergence of all those viruses, the side effects of the misinformation and the paranoia and the lying, voter suppression,” said Burns.

“And then the rewriting of our history are saying that we’re not interested in facts. We’re not interested in the truth. We’re not interested in the many varied voices that make us up.” ...

If anyone knows it's the guy that studied and made accessible to tens of millions of Americans our Civil War. Here we go again?

Facebook was inevitable. Given Facebook as it is, it has and will continue to contribute to the divisions in our country caused by the spreading of lies and disinformation.
I don't see any way around it other than through education, but that ain't gonna happen with our schools turned into job mills for big business and the absolute fucked up situation with lack of accountability in home sculs.
The republicans have won their war against education, but they won't stop until we are a nation of idiots.
We have fox to thank for the destruction far more than Facebook.
It can get worse than a nation that elects a fake tv reality star to the presidency. The 2023 impeachment of Biden and Harris is on the horizon.

I can't envision a resolution to the current state of affairs. Feels like we're just going to keep becoming more and more divided.

[O Really]

I can't envision a resolution to the current state of affairs. Feels like we're just going to keep becoming more and more divided.

Yep.

[Whack9]

Actual post I saw on FB. Someone called her out though - her kids were removed because they left the building to start a Trump rally, not because of the way they were dressed.

But that doesn't matter because her post was shared many, many times and will be taken as fact, further warping people's view of reality.

[GoCubsGo]

As I was reading her post I was thinking bullshit.

Then I saw your comment.

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Actual post I saw on FB. Someone called her out though - her kids were removed because they left the building to start a Trump rally, not because of the way they were dressed.

But that doesn't matter because her post was shared many, many times and will be taken as fact, further warping people's view of reality.

That's how Trumpettes are - whiny, lying perpetual victims.

[Whack9]

Decent video worth a watch:

"What a fake 2016 BLM rally tells us about disinformation"

https://www.cnn.com/videos/business/202 ... rig-jg.cnn

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Russia blocks access to Facebook

Hmmm, maybe this Putin dude ain't all bad. Your move, Joe.

[Whack9]

Saw this one today

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Saw this one today

I'm sorry for your loss.

[neoplacebo]

That kind of thing is why I don't do Facebook. I don't think I could stand such a barrage or even a glancing blow of such ignorance.

[billy.pilgrim]

That kind of thing is why I don't do Facebook. I don't think I could stand such a barrage or even a glancing blow of such ignorance.

Agree 100%