Should bad science be taken off social media?

📆 1/19/2022 8:29 AM

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A Royal Society report recommends against censoring scientific misinformation online.

Echoing this concern, the Royal Society says: "Removing content may exacerbate feelings of distrust and be exploited by others to promote misinformation content." This "may cause more harm than good by driving misinformation content...towards harder-to-address corners of the internet."

What's changed is the speed at which false facts travel, and the huge numbers of people who can end up reading them.

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