Pinterest reveals crackdown on anti-vaccine posts and searches
The social media platform has been blocking searches it believes spread vaccine misinformation
Pinterest has said that it has been actively blocking any posts including misinformation about vaccines from appearing in searches since last year.
What are the details?
In order to prevent its platform for being used to spread anti-vaccine messaging, Pinterest HQ has created a "blacklist" of search terms it considers to be "polluted."
A search for "vaccination" now produces a message that reads:
Pins about this topic often violate our community guidelines, so we're currently unable to show search results.
In addition to modifying searchable terms, it keeps track of images that include misinformation about vaccines, preventing users from being able to repost them.
"We proactively take action on Pins and boards that contain health misinformation, and we encourage anyone who might be encountering this content to report it to our team," a spokesperson from Instagram told ABC News.
"We want Pinterest to be an inspiring place for people, and there's nothing inspiring about misinformation," a spokesperson told CNBC in a separate statement. "That's why we continue to work on new ways of keeping misleading content off our platform and out of our recommendations engine."
The social media platform claims to have more than 250 million active users a month.
According to The Guardian, a study from 2016 found that 75 percent of all posts related to vaccines at the time were negative.
Vaccines may have prevented a recent measles outbreak
2019 has seen a spike in the number of measles cases in the United States â a disease that in 2000 had been entirely wiped out throughout the country. Out of the 53 cases that had been confirmed by Feb. 14 in one hard hit county in Washington state, 47 â or 89 percent â were in people who had not been immunized. The number of those infected in that county alone has now risen to 63.
Before the measles vaccine was developed in 1963, 400 to 500 people would die from it each year, and 48,000 would be hospitalized.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/pinterest-reveals-crack-down-on-anti-vaccination-misinformation
Putin to Russians: "Have Kids, Build Houses, Read Books."
As he stated at the outset, Vladimir Putinâs annual state of the nation address today before a joint session of the nationâs bicameral legislature was devoted preponderantly to domestic policy. He was expanding on the practical implications for the Russian population of the policy priorities for his current six-year term that he set out in decrees of May 2018. These have in the meantime taken the form of national projects organized around support to families to encourage child-bearing and stabilize the national demographics; housing construction and financing; roads, ports and other transport infrastructure development; improved health services; upgrading public education; encouragement to business innovation and export; and the like.
This material was delivered with a human touch, drawing on many experiences of contact with people from all walks of life that the President has gathered in specially organized meetings focused on these national projects at various cities around his vast country. He cited in particular his time in Kazan last week talking about housing.
For most political observers outside of Russia, myself included, the domestic policy story was marginal to our interests, though we did sit up and pay close attention to his brief remarks on one achievement illustrating the strides the country is making in state of the art applied sciences. This was his description of the breakthrough represented by the design and production of the hypersonic Avangard missile system. He likened it to the launch into orbit of the first Sputnik and he promised spill-over of the science into the civilian economy.
https://russia-insider.com/en/putin-russians-have-kids-build-houses-read-books/ri26338
Meet Juan Guaidoâs First Ambassador, Fake Twitter Diplomat Slammed by Costa Rica for âUnacceptable Entryâ
Maria FarĂa, the daughter of a would-be Hugo ChĂĄvez assassin, illegally barged into Venezuelaâs embassy in Costa Rica and declared herself ambassador. The embarrassing stunt highlighted everything wrong with Juan GuaidĂłâs reality-show government.
Grayzone â While tweeting that she had taken charge of Venezuelaâs Embassy in Costa Rica on February 20, Maria FarĂa demonstrated that she was more familiar with the conventions of social media than those dictating international diplomacy.
âIn fulfillment of the diplomatic functions, assigned by President Juan Guaidoâ, tweeted FarĂa, referring to the US-appointed leader of Venezuelaâs parallel coup government, âwe assume control of the administrative headquarters of the Embassy of Venezuela in San Joseâ.
The surprise announcement came early Wednesday morning from inside the Embassy, leading many to wonder how FarĂa, or â@Mandyfaria26â â who describes herself in her Twitter bio as the âDiplomatic Representative for the Venezuelan Republicâ in Costa Rica â was able to secure access to the Embassy.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/venezuela-juan-guaido-first-ambassador-fake-twitter-diplomat-slammed-costa-rica/255401/
Zechariah 12:2-3
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
Q said read the bible!
>but this whole Q thing can STILL go either way when you REALLY think deep on it.
Only a truly woke mind can see this. Prepare for both outcomes wear the full armor always. Pray for the righteous.
Still comped af