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?

 

[Chicken Neck Nelly]

Not literally every one of them, but it seems the hardcore ones are like 5'5 usually

Here's a Neo-Nazi rally in Sweden. Seems most are of average to well above average male height. What are you going to do now, insist they all have micropenises, or are Nazis marching in the street not considered hardcore enough?

Edit: sorry if the image isn't working I am using my phone

 

[ConfederateIrishman]

Bill is a Capitalist; No more, and no less. Of course he is going to advocate for the company he helped grew remain unregulated, it is the same reason he and all the other big tech leaders have downplayed the potential problems of their products for decades at this point: the money to be made is too damn lucrative.

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

Here's a Neo-Nazi rally in Sweden. Seems most are of average to well above average male height. What are you going to do now, insist they all have micropenises, or are Nazis marching in the street not considered hardcore enough?

Edit: sorry if the image isn't working I am using my phone

Sweden average height is like 6'1, and these guys look way shorter than that (your pic didn't work):

and half of them look inbred

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

@HollywoodHulkHogan mentioned that masks are for the public health to stop the spread of a virus. So by that logic shouldn't everyone, by law, have to wear a condom when they have sex?

Hey my first love died in a car accident.

We should get rid of cars too.

 

[Your_Fairy_Wish_Prince]

I am sure it's been said but:

A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on.

 

[UptownRuckus]

Bill Gates who is a dropout that made Microsoft, and is trying to tell the world how to manage it's people, and is trying to play doctor when he's not a doctor.
I do not trust him.

 

[Batman VS Tony Danza]

Hey my first love died in a car accident.

We should get rid of cars too.

Or some kind of law to make people wear seat belts.

wait

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

Or some kind of law to make people wear seat belts.

wait

Seat belts don't help when a drunk runs a red light and T-bones you.

 

[Batman VS Tony Danza]

Seat belts don't help when a drunk runs a red light and T-bones you.

Yeah, sucks when the actions of a random idiot who thinks they know better costs you a loved one.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

Yeah, sucks when the actions of a random idiot who thinks they know better costs you a loved one.

And yet, we haven't banned Cars nor Booze due to those idiots.

Or rather we tried and realized how stupid of an idea it was to trample on personal liberty because a few Karens REEEEE about "THE GREATER GOOD" tm.

 

[Hollywood Hitler]

Yeah, except eventually theyll have to leave the house (meds, groceries, etc...). I call my parents weekly. I actually care about others, unlike your selfish ass. You can't even be asked to wear a mask to help high-risk people. You're a selfish piece of shit



STDs only affect those who you fuck. Covid is contagious without showing symptoms to everyone. It's not a difficult concept

Yeah, and the death rate is extraordinary low. If you're going to make everyone wear a mask, you're also going to have to make everyone wear condoms. It'S A PUBLOC HEALTH CRISIS!!!!!

 

[Unog]

Dangerous misinformation is also really bad.

Give some examples.

 

[Miller]

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.”

Elon Musk is the only guy in tech who understands that Twitter should be used for shitposting and not for spreading manufactured narratives.
Gates was always a piece of shit and a manipulator.

 

[Cedric_Eff]

Humans are innately chaotic, the internet will reflect the pure chaos that is the human perspective. Trying to close a Pandora’s box that’s been opened is a impossible task.


So let humans be humans and let them shitpost.

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

Give some examples.

Saying masks don't help and crusading against mask wearing, when masks help stop the spread of a deadly pandemic.

Another example: anti-vaxers

 

[scringleton]

Saying masks don't help and crusading against mask wearing, when masks help stop the spread of a deadly pandemic.

Another example: anti-vaxers

Example: "5G cell towers are the cause of the coronavirus, QANON told me so."

 

[Hollywood Hitler]

Saying masks don't help and crusading against mask wearing, when masks help stop the spread of a deadly pandemic.

Another example: anti-vaxers

Should we wear masks wherever we go forever? Because that's the road we're on, that's why they call it the "new normal" after all. All for a virus that hardly kills anyone, and for a virus that will mutate as often as the Flu so that even if we come out with a vaccine, it has 50/50 effectiveness.

I bet if the Dr. Fauci told you to stuff a buttplug up your ass it would stop the spread you'd loosen and lube yourself up so bright and fast.

 

[Ahriman]

Shared by an edgy Karen on the facetube:

Bill's statements directly contradict this...

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

Should we wear masks wherever we go forever? Because that's the road we're on, that's why they call it the "new normal" after all. All for a virus that hardly kills anyone, and for a virus that will mutate as often as the Flu so that even if we come out with a vaccine, it has 50/50 effectiveness.

I bet if the Dr. Fauci told you to stuff a buttplug up your ass it would stop the spread you'd loosen and lube yourself up so bright and fast.

We should wear masks until there is a vaccine or it goes away (which won't happen because of dipshits like you who won't wear a mask). 150k have died so far in 5 months. You think that's hardly anyone?

I bet if Trump told you that he is going to shit in your mouth to stick it to the libs, you'd open up wide and brag about it

Example: "5G cell towers are the cause of the coronavirus, QANON told me so."

There's people on this forum who unironically believe the QAnon shit.

 

[Hollywood Hitler]

We should wear masks until there is a vaccine or it goes away (which won't happen because of dipshits like you who won't wear a mask). 150k have died so far in 5 months. You think that's hardly anyone?

150k died (I'm going to assume that's including deaths that were a result of these patients having 1 or more serious conditions such as cancer) out of 6 billion people.

That's not a lot my dude. Do you know how numbers work?