What was the social media platform’s justification for allowing users to discuss the lab-spillover hypothesis? It didn’t hire a team of virologists and foreign policy experts to assess the viability of competing explanations for the virus’s origins. For example:įacebook recently announced that it would “no longer take down posts claiming that Covid-19 was man-made or manufactured,” and the company’s new policy nicely underscores this point about credibility. Given the number of authoritative statements made and suddenly reversed, tt seems that any such crackdown would largely be driven by politics. Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Flipboard Print arroba EmailĪt American Council on Science and Health (“promoting science and debunking junk since 1978”), Cameron English reflects on the handwringing among social media companies about how to crack down on “misinformation” on COVID-19.
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