Ed Pilkington and Jessica Glenza, The Guardian; Facebook under pressure to halt rise of anti-vaccination groups
"Dr Noni MacDonald, a professor of pediatrics at Dalhousie University
in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, who has worked as an expert adviser to
the WHO on immunization, questioned why Facebook was unrestrained by the
stringent controls against misinformation put on drug companies. “We
don’t let big pharma or big food or big radio companies do this, so why
should we let this happen in this venue?”
She
added: “When a drug company puts a drug up in the formal media, they
can’t tell you something false or they will be sued. So why is this
different? Why is this allowed?”"
Ethically-tangled aspects of 21st century societies and cultures. In the vein of Charles Darwin’s 1859 “entangled bank” metaphor—a complex and evolving digital ecosystem of difference and dependence, where humans, technologies, ethics, law, policy, data, and information converge and diverge. Kip Currier, PhD, JD
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
Facebook under pressure to halt rise of anti-vaccination groups; The Guardian, February 12, 2019
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