Culture Bill Gates: Lies spread faster than facts on social media, which is hard to police - Bill Gates told CNBC that "titillating" misinformation has a tendency to spread faster than the truth on social media services. He also said Elon Musk likes to "maintain a high level of outrageous comments."

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/28/bill-gates-lies-spread-faster-than-facts-on-social-media.html

- Bill Gates told CNBC that “titillating” misinformation has a tendency to spread faster than the truth on social media services.
- Gates also weighed in on Wednesday’s highly anticipated antitrust hearing featuring CEOs from Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google.
- Gates also touched on Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s controversial comments about Covid-19, telling the automaker entrepreneur to stay in his lane.

Billionaire Bill Gates told CNBC that misinformation has a tendency to spread faster than the truth on social media services.

“When you let people communicate, you have to deal with the fact that certain incorrect things that are very titillating can spread very rapidly compared to the truth. And we’ve always seen that with vaccines,” Gates said in an interview with CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin that aired Tuesday on “Squawk Box.”

Facts travel slowly on social media compared with “negative” misinformation, which makes it difficult for companies like Facebook and Twitter to strike a balance, Gates said.

“To the degree to which these media companies can see what’s being said on their platform and take things that are absolutely wrong and get rid of those things or slow those things down, that’s very tough,” the Microsoft co-founder said in Monday’s interview.

Further complicating the policing of misinformation for Facebook is its 2019 decision to encrypt users’ direct messaging on WhatsApp, Gates said.

“Some of the messages on their platform, they don’t even see because of the encryption on WhatsApp,” Gates said. “In order to not have any responsibility, they’ve made that opaque. You know, so whatever the issues — anti-vaccine, child pornography — they have made sure they can’t intervene on those things.”

Gates also weighed in on Wednesday’s highly anticipated antitrust hearing featuring CEOs from Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google.

“You know, it certainly reminds me of when I went in front of the Congress,” he said. “I wished them well.”

Despite the hearings, Gates said, he believes the tech industry is naturally very competitive.

“Now, I’m not saying that the authorities have to be totally laissez-faire. But I do think people underestimate that natural competitive forces do come into the space,” he said. “I think of tech as even without massive regulation, that there will be a lot of innovation.”

Gates also touched on Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s controversial comments about Covid-19, telling the automaker entrepreneur to stay in his lane.

“Elon’s positioning is to maintain a high level of outrageous comments,” Gates said. “He’s not much involved in vaccines. He makes a great electric car. And his rockets work well. So he’s allowed to say these things. I hope that he doesn’t confuse areas he’s not involved in too much.”

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Wew, Bill. The mainstream media spreads a lot of misinformation and fake news, what about that?

 

[MrJokerRager]

Bill Gates has certainly lost a lot of any goodwill he ever had lol.

Whats with all these big 1990s celebrities and figures turning into commie bootlickers,

 

[Hollywood Hitler]

So, what's his solution, not allow people to speak their mind, ask questions, and state opinions? It's either that, or cut down the internet.

 

[Jimmy Durante's Ballsack]

Bill Gates can take his mark of the beast bullshit and burn in hell with his compatriots.

 

[Screw Danlon]

Bill Gates has certainly lost a lot of any goodwill he ever had lol.

Whats with all these big 1990s celebrities and figures turning into commie bootlickers,

When you have more money than God, the only way to ensure no one else can ever catch up is to make the world communist and then die as the richest man who ever lived.

 

[Ciscoipphone]

He's not wrong about Elon but asking the cow to stop producing milk is a big no no

When you have more money than God, the only way to ensure no one else can ever catch up is to make the world communist and then die as the richest man who ever lived.

Interesting how Microsoft was not present at the big tech antitrust hearing...

 

[Meat Target]

Mandatory.

 

[Sneed's Feed And Seed]

Uh, Billy? You work on computer viruses. (And not very well, at that.)

 

[Inflatable Julay]

Lol bill gates is a retard

 

[Pickle Inspector]

So, what's his solution, not allow people to speak their mind, ask questions, and state opinions? It's either that, or cut down the internet.

Yeah, it's as if people like him would quite like for America (And other western countries) to have the control China's goverment has over their internet, just as long as it benefits their interests.

Many of the more far left would probally like China's social credit system too but with a more progressive slant too.

 

[Sopressata]

“When you let people communicate”.........LET? Is he thinking about changing all of that? The toughest pill for him to swallow is the fact that you can’t control what people think, because once they THINK they are beyond your control.

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

Bill Gates has certainly lost a lot of any goodwill he ever had lol.

Whats with all these big 1990s celebrities and figures turning into commie bootlickers,

Yeah, what a terrible person. I mean, only a terrible person would donate over $40 billion to charity and fund creation of a vaccine for a pandemic that is going on. He sure is an asshole

 

[Hollywood Hitler]

Yeah, what a terrible person. I mean, only a terrible person would donate over $40 billion to charity and fund creation of a vaccine for a pandemic that is going on. He sure is an asshole

Yes, let's give up our right to communicate freely because some faggy nerd donated money towards vaccines.

 

[MrJokerRager]

Yeah, what a terrible person. I mean, only a terrible person would donate over $40 billion to charity and fund creation of a vaccine for a pandemic that is going on. He sure is an asshole

You do realize Bill Gates was the Jeff Bezos of the 1990s and ran Microsoft like a monopoly. Yes. why not donate to charity so people don't know how anti-competitive he was.

And only bailed out Apple and gave Steve Jobs his place at Apple back because he didn't want further anti-trust legislation to happen to Microsoft.

Edit: And to add an intentional ad hominem here because we all know what you truly are, for a guy who claims to have a computer science degree, you are dumb as shit if you didn't know that.

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

Yes, let's give up our right to communicate freely because some faggy nerd donated money towards vaccines.

Dangerous misinformation is also really bad. And Facebook, Twitter, etc.. are private companies and can run fact checks on posts if they want.

You do realize Bill Gates was the Jeff Bezos of the 1990s and ran Microsoft like a monopoly. Yes. why not donate to charity so people don't know how anti-competitive he was.

I sure do. But he's stepped away from that and done a lot of good since then.

 

[Basil II]

cya bill.

 

[Imperialist #348]

Dangerous misinformation is also really bad. And Facebook, Twitter, etc.. are private companies and can run fact checks on posts if they want.



I sure do. But he's stepped away from that and done a lot of good since then.

Fuck off Bill.

 

[Hollywood Hitler]

Dangerous misinformation is also really bad. And Facebook, Twitter, etc.. are private companies and can run fact checks on posts if they want.



I sure do. But he's stepped away from that and done a lot of good since then.

Then they should censor and shadow ban a lot of MSM YouTube channels. But they dont, because their concern isn't about controlling"dangerous misinformation" , it's about pushing a narrative.

 

[AnnLurker]

Dangerous misinformation is also really bad. And Facebook, Twitter, etc.. are private companies and can run fact checks on posts if they want.



I sure do. But he's stepped away from that and done a lot of good since then.

Let retards do what they want. If it kills them so what? Your dead does not trump my rights.

 

[Screw Danlon]

Yeah, what a terrible person. I mean, only a terrible person would donate over $40 billion to charity and fund creation of a vaccine for a pandemic that is going on. He sure is an asshole

Well, considering he also funded the production of the virus, it’s the least he can do.