{"id":4939,"date":"2020-03-17T19:58:28","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T02:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetnl.org\/?p=4939"},"modified":"2024-01-29T17:42:57","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T01:42:57","slug":"misinformation-is-the-other-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/2020\/03\/17\/misinformation-is-the-other-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"Misinformation is the other virus&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"joint statement (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2020\/03\/16\/facebook-reddit-google-linkedin-microsoft-twitter-and-youtube-issue-joint-statement-on-misinformation\/\" target=\"_blank\">joint statement<\/a> from many of the major players in social media today about efforts to limit misinformation about Covid-19. <a href=\"https:\/\/redditblog.com\/2020\/03\/02\/expert-conversation-on-coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Redit's approach (opens in a new tab)\">Redit&#8217;s approach<\/a> is particularly interesting, talking about their own &#8220;quarantines.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>To further help ensure that authoritative content is what redditors see first when they are looking for conversations about coronavirus, Reddit may also apply a quarantine to communities that contains hoax or misinformation content. A quarantine will remove the community from search results, warn the user that it may contain misinformation, and require an explicit opt-in.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><cite>https:\/\/redditblog.com\/2020\/03\/02\/expert-conversation-on-coronavirus\/<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Misinformation is never a good thing, but in cases like this, it literally can be the difference between life and death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A joint statement from many of the major players in social media today about efforts to limit misinformation about Covid-19. Redit&#8217;s approach is particularly interesting, talking about their own &#8220;quarantines.&#8221; To further help ensure that authoritative content is what redditors see first when they are looking for conversations about coronavirus, Reddit may also apply a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,21,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-narrative","category-social-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6624,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4939\/revisions\/6624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}