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Re:Facebook is now claiming official CDC.gov links are “Fals... by cat_plus_plus on Thursday July 29, 2021 @09:58PM (#28003636)
How do you distinguish correlation and causation? People who are concerned about something are naturally going to search online and engage with content that confirms their biases. Do you have a robust evidence that vaccine hesitant go on Facebook and change their minds based on pro-vaccine content that is heavily promoted these days?
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Re:Facebook is now claiming official CDC.gov links are “Fals... by cududa on Friday July 30, 2021 @12:48PM (#28009858)
No, most of the pro-vaccine content doesn’t persuade people because it’s not crafted right. There are some interesting efforts in the field now with promising effects.

But being on the fence/ skeptical and seeing disinformation that aligns with your fears does move someone from the hesitant to resident category

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Re:Facebook is now claiming official CDC.gov links are “Fals... by zdragnar on Thursday July 29, 2021 @11:08PM (#28004021)
You give people too much credit.

Tuskegee experiment cast a very long shadow and contributes a significant reason for the racial divide in vaccination rates for covid. No research needed, the bias is built into cultural memory.

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Re:Facebook is now claiming official CDC.gov links are “Fals... by cududa on Friday July 30, 2021 @12:51PM (#28009882)
No idea why you got downvoted so much. This is very much so a reason people are untrusting.

One method a Black pastor and I came up with for our county and surrounding ones was to bring the parishioners to a county vax clinic with white folks also present, and let them point in the pan of pre-drawn needles for which one they wanted, so they didn’t have to fear they were getting a “Black” vaccine

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Re:Facebook is now claiming official CDC.gov links are “Fals... by zdragnar on Friday July 30, 2021 @10:27PM (#28014663)
Most likely, I presume, is that telling people whose livelihood depends on the internet that other people do not research on the internet everything they develop beliefs about is apparently not a great idea if you are concerned about fake internet points.
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Re:Facebook is now claiming official CDC.gov links are “Fals... by cat_plus_plus on Monday August 02, 2021 @01:04PM (#28039376)
That's an excuse, not a reason. The reason for both whites and blacks acting like idiots is lack of mastery of even kindergarden-level critical thinking among US adults.
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