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?”"
Issues and developments related to ethics, information, and technologies, examined in the ethics and intellectual property graduate courses I teach at the University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information. My Bloomsbury book "Ethics, Information, and Technology" will be published in Summer 2025. Kip Currier, PhD, JD
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Wednesday, February 13, 2019
Facebook under pressure to halt rise of anti-vaccination groups; The Guardian, February 12, 2019
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