while he may have been characteristically loose with details (immunity is the wrong term to use in context for children that have yet to see the virus but can be expected to defeat it very easily), as far as i can tell, trump's statements about children being virtually unaffected by the virus, up to statistical noise, are absolutely correct.

these people own the servers, they can do what they want. but, they're consistently wrong, and are consistently labeling correct information as false.

so, we need to make a choice whether we want to let them continue to do that or not.

i only use facebook as an update service; my facebook page is a cv, essentially. a link dump. and, this is a good example of the reasons i stopped using the site - i was unhappy with the content i was receiving, and felt the time i was spending arguing with people about it was just wasted. i make a conscious attempt to avoid any substantive discourse at all over facebook.

i have a twitter account, but i have only used it once or twice since i signed up in 2008. the reason i've avoided twitter is actually the character limit, which you might guess from sorting through this is something i'd find highly restrictive. but, watching it's restrictions on free discourse develop into an authoritarian body that deletes post for being wrong (but is usually wrong itself), i'm glad i never bothered with it.

but, i mean it's up to us to make a choice, here. the reality is that the "fact checkers" at twitter and facebook have an absolutely abysmal track record of actual fact-checking, to the point that you may want to assume that the opposite of everything they say is true. they're always wrong, to the point that they've become a great representation of paul krugman's "very serious people".

they're serious, alright. they're seriously wrong.

given all of this evidence against them as a fact-checking service, do you want to continue to use their sites? do you want to log in every day and have your opinions subject to alteration at the whim of people that don't know what the fuck they're talking about?

it's hard to get off the network, i get it. everybody's there. so, how do you get out?

i dunno. set up your own page. start a blog. there's ways out...

but, if it was predictable that a site like facebook would turn into the thought police, it has now happened, and we are now here. and, it's up to us to stop using it if we don't like it.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/us-politics/article-facebook-pulls-trump-post-over-coronavirus-misinformation-presidents/