{"id":1076,"date":"2021-11-22T08:12:48","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T07:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2021\/11\/22\/facebook-community-group-seeing-laugh-reacts-on-death-as-covid-misinformation-spreads-abc-news\/"},"modified":"2021-11-22T08:12:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T07:12:48","slug":"facebook-community-group-seeing-laugh-reacts-on-death-as-covid-misinformation-spreads-abc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2021\/11\/22\/facebook-community-group-seeing-laugh-reacts-on-death-as-covid-misinformation-spreads-abc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook community group &#039;seeing laugh reacts on death&#039; as COVID misinformation spreads &#8211; ABC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cfbc967f0983488262956e73eca9483a\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3859091246952232\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- blok -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3859091246952232\" data-ad-slot=\"1334354390\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n\n<\/div>\n<p>It&#x27;s a realm that has been described by Prime Minister Scott Morrison as a &quot;coward&#x27;s palace&quot;.<br \/>And, according to US\u00a0<a class=\"fmhNa nsZdE _2c2Zy _1tOey\" href=\"\/news\/2021-10-06\/facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugen-testifies\/100516542\" data-component=\"ContentLink\" data-uri=\"coremedia:\/\/article\/100516542\">whistleblower Frances Haugen<\/a>, has the power to\u00a0&quot;harm children, stoke division and weaken our democracy.&quot;<br \/>Yet misinformation on Facebook and other social media platforms continues and there is\u00a0no easy fix.<br \/>Politicians have blamed Facebook&#x27;s<a class=\"fmhNa nsZdE _2c2Zy _1tOey\" href=\"\/news\/2021-10-07\/prime-minister-defends-dutton-twitter-defamation-action\/100522002\" data-component=\"ContentLink\" data-uri=\"coremedia:\/\/article\/100522002\">\u00a0failure to rein in anonymous trolls,<\/a>\u00a0as calls for greater <a class=\"fmhNa nsZdE _2c2Zy _1tOey\" href=\"\/news\/2021-10-21\/facebook-whistleblower-tells-politicians-to-partner-with-us\/100556252\" data-component=\"ContentLink\" data-uri=\"coremedia:\/\/article\/100556252\">government regulation<\/a>\u00a0grow.<br \/>Yet between the tech giant\u00a0and\u00a0government, there\u00a0are other key players in the prevention of misinformation\u00a0\u2014 the everyday users.<br \/>Jenna Schr\u00f6der\u00a0manages a community Facebook group usually reserved for posts about missing pets, business recommendations and sunset photos.<br \/>The group, which\u00a0has about 4,300 members,\u00a0is used by residents in the Gold Coast suburb of Labrador to share local information.<br \/>But in a lengthy post published this week, Ms Schr\u00f6der\u00a0outlined her policy to remove COVID-conspiracies and anti-vaccine comments.<br \/>&quot;I can&#x27;t believe we are almost two\u00a0years into this pandemic and people still think that reading Facebook comments and watching YouTube videos is &#x27;research&#x27;,&quot; she wrote.<br \/>&quot;You are not a scientist.&quot;<br \/>A High Court ruling means the administrators of community-run Facebook pages can be sued for what people write in the comments. What&#x27;s the\u00a0legal risk, who&#x27;s willing to take it, and\u00a0will the pages survive?<br \/>Ms Schr\u00f6der\u00a0said she would not\u00a0change the minds of conspiracy theorists.<br \/>But she said those managing such community groups\u00a0had\u00a0a responsibility to weed out false information.<br \/>&quot;The more you argue against them, the more you strengthen their belief,&quot; she said.<br \/>&quot;It&#x27;s more those people who aren&#x27;t engaging, on the fence, who are reading a lot, who might just be making up their own minds quietly.<br \/>&quot;It&#x27;s important to give them the best chance of reading correct information.&quot;<br \/>Misinformation and disinformation often fall\u00a0under the umbrella term of &#x27;fake news&#x27; \u2014 a topic studied in depth by La Trobe University&#x27;s Associate Professor Andrea Carson in the Department of Politics, Media and Philosophy.<br \/>&quot;Trust in family and friends online over the 18 months of the pandemic has actually gone up, whereas\u00a0trust in politicians and journalists has gone down,&quot; she said.<br \/>&quot;That means there&#x27;s a real responsibility that if you&#x27;re sharing information with your peer networks, you need to stop and think, &#x27;Do I know this to be true?&#x27;<br \/>&quot;Citizens need to recognise that if they don&#x27;t know the veracity or the truthfulness of the information, don&#x27;t share it.&quot;<br \/>Misinformation can be spread without the explicit intent to deceive or harm others\u00a0and can include satirical articles or even clickbait.<br \/>&quot;[But] that&#x27;s problematic because we do know that since COVID, misinformation can cause harm and we&#x27;ve seen that with some of the false advice over COVID treatments,&quot; Associate Professor Carson said.<br \/>Disinformation, however, is the intentional spread of misleading information in pursuit of a deliberate goal.<br \/>&quot;But there is a degree of overlap because we can&#x27;t always divine what someone&#x27;s intention is,&quot; she said.<br \/>&quot;But we do want to tackle information that\u2019s harmful,\u00a0whether it\u2019s physical harm, or financial harm or, electoral harm, or some of those intangible harms such as harming trust in experts.&quot;<br \/>It&#x27;s a complicated issue that taps into freedom of speech and censorship, but also\u00a0challenges those just trying to form a community connection.<br \/>In February, tech giants like Facebook and Google adopted a <a class=\"fmhNa nsZdE _2c2Zy _1tOey\" href=\"\/news\/science\/2021-02-22\/facebook-google-release-voluntary-industry-code-disinformation\/13178488\" data-component=\"ContentLink\" data-uri=\"coremedia:\/\/article\/13178488\">voluntary code of conduct aimed at stemming the spread of mis\/disinformation.<\/a><br \/>Mark Zuckerberg says the rebranding is part of the company&#x27;s plan to develop a virtual world but critics argue\u00a0it&#x27;s an attempt to shift focus from recent controversies.\u00a0Here&#x27;s what we know about Facebook going Meta.<br \/>The code gives each platform discretion over what measures to implement,\u00a0ranging from the prioritisation of official and credible sources, to labelling or removing false information or accounts.<br \/>&quot;It&#x27;ll be reviewed by the media authority and the government at the start of next year and then we&#x27;ll get a picture about how satisfactory these measures have been,&quot; Associate Professor Carson said.<br \/>She said the role of government was\u00a0the &quot;seminal question&quot; but that &quot;we don&#x27;t\u00a0want commercial businesses being the arbiters of what should be taken down&quot;.<br \/>&quot;We need to be really, really careful what we wish for.<br \/>&quot;We need to have a degree of government regulation around this at arm&#x27;s length.&quot;<br \/>Associate Professor Carson said finding the balance had\u00a0proven problematic in &quot;electoral autocracies&quot; like Indonesia and Singapore, whose laws have been <a class=\"fmhNa nsZdE _2c2Zy _1tOey\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latrobe.edu.au\/__data\/assets\/pdf_file\/0019\/1203553\/carson-fake-news.pdf\" data-component=\"ContentLink\">criticised for potentially\u00a0suppressing media freedom and silencing political opposition.<\/a><br \/>&quot;Many of these countries have rushed to enact these laws under the cover of COVID,&quot; she said.<br \/>\u201cIt&#x27;s a way to strengthen government power.&quot;<br \/>Ms\u00a0Schr\u00f6der, who is studying a Masters of Digital Communication, said &quot;a lot of people do solely get news off social media, they have distrust in the news&quot;.<br \/>Facebook group admins\u00a0in regional Australia\u00a0say\u00a0misinformation is fracturing previously positive online communities and affecting their towns&#x27; sense of togetherness.<br \/>She only posts information about COVID from official sources like Queensland Health.<br \/>&quot;I&#x27;m keeping it pretty limited, so really not posting much about COVID, but if I&#x27;m sharing contact tracing, I\u2019ll turn off comments straight away,&quot; she said.<br \/>&quot;I don&#x27;t want to deal with the conspiracies that get posted.&quot;<br \/>But more broadly, Ms Schr\u00f6der\u00a0says\u00a0she&#x27;s worried about how the tone of conversation on Facebook\u00a0has been changing.<br \/>&quot;Initially it was concern and being afraid \u2014 now it is anger and people trying to irritate people,&quot; she said.<br \/>&quot;Seeing laugh reacts on death and things like that, just blows my mind.&quot;<br \/>See our full coverage of coronavirus<br \/>We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work.<br \/>This service may include material from Agence France-Presse (AFP), APTN, Reuters, AAP, CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced.<br \/><strong>AEST<\/strong> = Australian Eastern Standard Time which is 10 hours ahead of GMT (Greenwich Mean Time)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2021-11-22\/facebook-group-seeing-laugh-reacts-on-death-\/100629854\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; 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