#Musk ’s Twitter takeover: Some Canadian professionals thinking of quitting platform globalnews.ca/news/9245367/m…

Me: Don't leave or it 'becomes this massive echo chamber for bunk...”

“Our mandate is to fight misinformation, so we can’t really abandon these platforms.”

Texas must tackle stem cell misinformation, say experts medicalxpress.com/news/2022-09-t… via Kirstin Matthews cc ISSCR

'...advertisements often provide the reader with misleading and at times false information related to the risks and benefits of the procedure...'

Yep! Needed work! 🙏

I am a proponent of SoMe use by physicians for many reasons, including to combat misinformation

But can it put you at legal risk?

I was among 23 MDs & journalists/media sued for calling 2 Cdn doctors out for spreading misinformation on Twitter

It didn’t go well for them

1/11

Who would have guessed the lefty, Post Modern, idea “all knowledge is relative” would be weaponized by the right to push misinformation?

Foucault’s legacy: Trump, Tucker Carlson, Danielle Smith??

In 1975, conservatives trusted science more than liberals. Now the opposite.

Ideology + misinformation = > death.

'The higher the exposure to political conservatism, the higher the COVID-19 mortality rates and stress on hospital ICU capacity'

Political ideology & #COVID -19 health outcomes medicalxpress.com/news/2022-11-p… via Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

#ScienceUpFirst !

#Musk ’s Twitter takeover creates uncertainty for professionals using platform for good thestar.com/business/2022/… via @torontostar

Me: stay on the platform because it needs science-informed voices! If we they leave, 'it will become a harmful echo chamber for misinformation.'

COVID fatigue is real and we understand why. It's ok to feel that way after 3 years of a crisis. But, the reality is that there is still a lot happening right now.

Here is what you should know about the COVID situation in Canada right now. 👇

#ScienceUpFirst

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More please, American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM). thetexan.news/dallas-cardiol…

Heart transplants from donors who had COVID-19 are safe, study shows upi.com/8001667223145 via @upi

'...as safe to transplant as those from someone without the virus.'

'Silencing BS' everywhere! Don't fall for it.

'Attack on Paul Pelosi becomes punchline for some Republicans' washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/… Amy B Wang

“You know, you can’t talk about vaccines. You can’t talk about elections,' says Kari Lake on THE MOST POPULAR cable 'news' show. Sigh.

How on-brand!

' #DrOz ’s medical research was rejected in 2003, resulting in 2-year ban' washingtonpost.com/elections/2022… by Lenny Bernstein Colby Itkowitz

'He was also prohibited from publishing his work in the society’s medical journal for the same period of time...'

As someone who is harassed, threatened, sued, lied about (all with goal of 'silencing'), I find it ironic when misinformation mongers complain about 'censorship'.

There are LIES (denying Holocaust, vaccines kill many, the Big Lie, Sandy Hook, etc) that MUST be countered.

COVID censorship?

1) Little 'censorship' (research shows opposite: misinformation gets outsized attention - in news, podcasts, etc)

2) The harmful misinformation is clearly bunk (vaccines killed many, ivermectin works, etc)

3) NOT about real debate. Science DOES/DID evolve!

' #ElonMusk Says Twitter Will Give Blue Checks Only to Verified Conspiracy Theorists' newyorker.com/humor/borowitz… by Andy Borowitz via The New Yorker

Goal: “curate a world-class collection of the most prominent paranoiacs working today.”

#DigitalDarkAge

Nice to have this lawsuit mess behind us.

Experience highlights:

1) How harassment from #misinformation mongers can chill online discourse.

2) Importance of anti-SLAPP legislation.

3) Community & institutional support is priceless.🙏

#GoTeam ! #GoScience ! cc André Picard

'Musk reportedly wants to loosen Twitter’s policies on misinformation and anti-trans sentiment. He’s familiar with both.' slate.com/technology/202… by Evan Urquhart | Assigned Media via @slate

'...seems very invested in ensuring falsehoods thrive on Twitter under his leadership.'

#DigitalDarkAge

Fact check: COVID-19 vaccine recipients are still human usatoday.com/story/news/pol… by Nate Trela

Antivaxxer argues 'humans who received the vaccine have had their DNA genetically modified' [NO!] to the point that they are no longer human [NO!], but are instead 'homoborgensis' [NO!]'