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Re:The risky bat-virus engineering that links America to Wuhan by nradov on Friday July 02, 2021 @05:58PM (#27717450)
Official line in which country? And what happens when the WHO says one thing, the CDC says something else, and the President contradicts both?
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Re:The risky bat-virus engineering that links America to Wuhan by api on Friday July 02, 2021 @06:07PM (#27717541)
What happens? Facebook eats it from all sides.

I didn't say they were doing a good job, just that the alternative would have been to let the platform turn into a complete cesspool of bullshit and hate.

This scenario is a curse you get when you are operating a gigantic Internet forum at that kind of scale.

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Re:The risky bat-virus engineering that links America to Wuhan by heavyset_go on Friday July 02, 2021 @08:17PM (#27718329)
> I didn't say they were doing a good job, just that the alternative would have been to let the platform turn into a complete cesspool of bullshit and hate.

Here's an example of this happening[1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebo...

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