May 10, 2022 at 01:48PM<\/p>\n
Bill Gates Wants to Create a 3,000 Person Social Media Unit to Quash \u201cVaccine Misinformation\u201d<\/p>\n
Billionaire Bill Gates has announced that he plans to create a new unit, hiring 3,000 people to take to social media, put out messaging, and \u201chelp propagate accurate vaccine information in the future,\u201d\u00a0CNBC reported.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Gates wants social media to be a place with \u201cgood messages\u201d from \u201cpeople of trust in the community, such as political and ethnic leaders.\u201d<\/p>\n Gates made the statements when being asked about Elon Musk\u2019s acquisition of Twitter and the future of free speech on the platform.<\/p>\n During the Wall Street Journal\u2019s CEO Summit, the Microsoft founder said Elon Musk could make Twitter worse. While the Tesla CEO is a free speech absolutist, Gates has called for more censorship.<\/p>\n Gates acknowledged that Musk has done a great job with his other companies, SpaceX and Tesla. But he is not confident Musk will do the same with Twitter.<\/p>\n \u201cI kind of doubt that will happen this time, but we should have an open mind and never underestimate Elon,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n One of the reasons Gates feels Musk could make Twitter worse is the SpaceX CEO\u2019s stand on free speech.<\/p>\n \u201cHow does he feel about something [on Twitter] that says \u2018vaccines kill people\u2019 or that \u2018Bill Gates is tracking people?\u2019\u201d Gates asked.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat are his goals for what it ends up being? Does that match this idea of less extreme falsehoods spreading so quickly [and] weird conspiracy theories? Does he share that goal or not?\u201d Gates said.<\/p>\n Gates feels social media platforms have a role to play to prevent misinformation from spreading.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen you don\u2019t have the trusted leaders speaking out about vaccines, it\u2019s pretty hard for the platform to work against that,\u201d he admitted. \u201cSo I think we have a leadership problem and we have a platform problem.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe way that you make those platforms spread truth and not crazy stuff, there\u2019s some real invention required there,\u201d Gates said.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a huge problem in terms of legitimacy of elections or medical innovations \u2026 any sort of collective behavior,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Censorship of vaccine skepticism and \u201cfact-checking\u201d labels have been controversial policies on social media platforms during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n via Infowars https:\/\/ift.tt\/OICeTLY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" May 10, 2022 at 01:48PM Bill Gates Wants to Create a 3,000 Person Social Media Unit to Quash \u201cVaccine Misinformation\u201d Billionaire Bill Gates has announced that he plans to create a new unit, hiring 3,000 people to take to social media, put out messaging, and \u201chelp propagate accurate vaccine information in the future,\u201d\u00a0CNBC reported.\u00a0 Gates 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