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?

 

[idosometimes]

Where is the evidence that lies spread faster? A person cannot just make that statement without evidence. I would imagine the reality is that the spread of ideas is based more upon biases than truth or untruth. Some liberal faget would forward a story they believed while a conservative prude would forward a story they believe. The validity is not a sticking point. It is about whether or not someone agrees..

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 [a buttwipe].

He donates the money to keep control of it. It is mostly going to a charity he and his wife created and direct. This is a case of "taking it with you" after you die.

Bill Gates who is a dropout that made Microsoft

Gates did not really "make" Microsoft. He lucked into success. The other guy wanted the OS side. Gates told IBM to talk to Kildall at DRI when IBM needed an OS for its new 8086 machine. Gates was just looking to sell language products. DRI's incompetence allowed SCP to clone CP/M and beat it to the market. DRI delivering a product on time would have resulted in Microsoft being a minor software company probably gobbled up by DRI or IBM for a few million in the 1990s.

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

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?

It's 150,000 in America alone, dumbass. That's the population of a medium-sized city. And that's just in 5 months with lockdowns. I know you Trump cultists suck at science and math, but even you should be able to see this is serious shit.

And all it takes to slow it down is to put a mask on and your fragile ass can't even be asked to do that. If you really are that fragile, you are probably a very high risk for covid itself and should be advocating for more lockdown measures because covid is gonna kick your fragile ass

 

[TowinKarz]

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.

He couldn't even keep Windows virus-free, now he thinks he can do the same to people everywhere if they just bow to their geeky superiors?

 

[Pampered Degenerate]

Someone should ask Billy boy if Mike Brown really said "hands up don't shoot".

 

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

Microsoft only turned itself around into an okay tech company (certainly far less toxic than it was and other tech companies are now) after Bill Gates left.

His pathology stuff now is him trying to salvage his legacy so he doesn't go down in history as a hated greedy billionaire.

That said I am getting sick of seeing coronavirus conspiracies but I'd rather see people speak their mind than have opinions mediated by some assholes with their own agendas. Which is why I'm on the Farms despite the number of kooks here.

 

[Hollywood Hitler]

It's 150,000 in America alone, dumbass. That's the population of a medium-sized city. And that's just in 5 months with lockdowns. I know you Trump cultists suck at science and math, but even you should be able to see this is serious shit.

And all it takes to slow it down is to put a mask on and your fragile ass can't even be asked to do that. If you really are that fragile, you are probably a very high risk for covid itself and should be advocating for more lockdown measures because covid is gonna kick your fragile ass

Okay, out of those 150k had 1 or more didn't have serious health conditions and/or around the average life expectancy?
If you're pro-science then those variables should matter.

 

[Duke Nukem]

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.

And even worse, if anyone points out this double standard, SJWs will be like "oh NOW you want censorship! See? iTs DiFfErEnT wHeN iTs SoMeOnE yOu DoNt AgReE wItH iSnT iT" with absolutely zero sense of irony.

Mental gymnastics is the Left's favorite athletic activity, full stop.

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.

No, the solution is to arrest people for having opinions contradictory to his own, in order to battle Nazi fascists who spread misinformation. Unless they work for him, of course.

 

[Jaimas]

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, funding the creation of a vaccine that will be rushed to market (and thus be both dangerous, and require multiple doses over time, and require yearly updates consisting of multiple doses), and whose deployment is being used to ram-rod through further erosion of our civil liberties. On a disease which provably has a lower fatality rate than several big epidemic diseases that preceded it (SARS, H1N1), and whose lockdowns over were based on a scientific model that is now widely known to be bupkis.

I can't imagine why anyone would object to that. The fucking audacity of these people.

 

[I-chi]

It's 150,000 in America alone, dumbass. That's the population of a medium-sized city. And that's just in 5 months with lockdowns. I know you Trump cultists suck at science and math, but even you should be able to see this is serious shit.

And all it takes to slow it down is to put a mask on and your fragile ass can't even be asked to do that. If you really are that fragile, you are probably a very high risk for covid itself and should be advocating for more lockdown measures because covid is gonna kick your fragile ass

Were those all confirmed deaths by specifically Covid or among the thousands that have been tossed into the basket as 'Covid Death' because some grampa choked on a prune during a pandemic? Not going so far as to suggest that, y'know, it's all faked because that's the height of retardation.

But then, those are the heights your experts seem to be consistently working at unless I'm mistaken.

Furthermore, where do you stand on the rationale in shutting everything down for months and screaming at anybody raising even a mild protest; until Poor Black Man dies so now let's all cluster together and #smashthestate because it's somehow more legitimate? What reality do you fucking live in that is incapable of putting together the simple equation that people will spite the absolute shit out of you and defy you if you're so loud about how double the standard is?

 

[Jaimas]

Were those all confirmed deaths by specifically Covid or among the thousands that have been tossed into the basket as 'Covid Death' because some grampa choked on a prune during a pandemic? Not going so far as to suggest that, y'know, it's all faked because that's the height of retardation.

But then, those are the heights your experts seem to be consistently working at unless I'm mistaken.

Furthermore, where do you stand on the rationale in shutting everything down for months and screaming at anybody raising even a mild protest; until Poor Black Man dies so now let's all cluster together and #smashthestate because it's somehow more legitimate? What reality do you fucking live in that is incapable of putting together the simple equation that people will spite the absolute shit out of you and defy you if you're so loud about how double the standard is?

I'd ask him about those, but given that he's yet to respond to things like the now-confirmed fact that the CDC's been cooking the numbers and the fact that they said White Supremacy was a bigger threat to the US than Coronavirus, I'd say it's a waste of breath.

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

Okay, out of those 150k had 1 or more didn't have serious health conditions and/or around the average life expectancy?
If you're pro-science then those variables should matter.

Amazing how the US has only 360 million people, yet accounts for almost 25% of world-wide covid cases. Why the hell do you think that is? You can admit that your cult leader fucked up the covid response, it doesn't make you a bad person. It takes a big person to admit that you were stupid and you were supporting an incompetent dumbass.

And are you saying that people with high-risk comorbidities don't count? Do you also say "all lives matter", because if so, that's really hypocritical

Were those all confirmed deaths by specifically Covid or among the thousands that have been tossed into the basket as 'Covid Death' because some grampa choked on a prune during a pandemic? Not going so far as to suggest that, y'know, it's all faked because that's the height of retardation.

But then, those are the heights your experts seem to be consistently working at unless I'm mistaken.

Furthermore, where do you stand on the rationale in shutting everything down for months and screaming at anybody raising even a mild protest; until Poor Black Man dies so now let's all cluster together and #smashthestate because it's somehow more legitimate? What reality do you fucking live in that is incapable of putting together the simple equation that people will spite the absolute shit out of you and defy you if you're so loud about how double the standard is?

Don't believe the shit your boomer uncle shares on Facebook, because that's not happening. In fact, experts think the death toll is actually higher than what is reported. There was a mixup with the CDC back in like March, but that was 5 months ago now.

Also, I have even said the BLM protests were stupid and were causing more covid cases. Don't put words in my mouth, dumbass.

 

[I-chi]

Don't believe the shit your boomer uncle shares on Facebook, because that's not happening. In fact, experts think the death toll is actually higher than what is reported. There was a mixup with the CDC back in like March, but that was 5 months ago now.

Also, I have even said the BLM protests were stupid and were causing more covid cases. Don't put words in my mouth, dumbass.

Lol calm down. I was just asking where you stand.

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

Lol calm down. I was just asking where you stand.

No you weren't. You were implying I said BLM protests were okay from a covid perspective, only phrased it as a question

 

[Tasty Tatty]

He's not completely wrong: lies that are intended to cause a reaction (often fear) travel fast, sometimes, too fast. I got a whatsapp audio saying infrared thermometers cause cancer because it shoots radiation at you. I explained the people who sent me that, even with links, that it was incorrect but days later, EVERY SINGLE MARKET, BANK, OR STORE checked your hand rather than your forehead because "it's safer this way".

Fun thing is that his way of talking about actual issues is what makes many people wary of what he says, even if he's correct. Saying things like these only makes him look like he's trying to take over the world like a real supervillain. He definitely is not, he's just an autistic nerd who doesn't know how to interact with humans, especially after becoming so rich. He really doesn't get that telling people (paraphrasing) "everybody should be forced to use the vaccine I'm making!" it's not good optics, even if his intentions are 100% altruistic. I mean, I'm 100% pro mandatory vaccination, but I don't want it from this guy.

 

[Jaimas]

Amazing how the US has only 360 million people, yet accounts for almost 25% of world-wide covid cases. Why the hell do you think that is? You can admit that your cult leader fucked up the covid response, it doesn't make you a bad person. It takes a big person to admit that you were stupid and you were supporting an incompetent dumbass.

I imagine it may have to do with the blatant fuck-ups commited by local governments, such as Andrew Cuomo's nursing home edict that by all accounts, put the most at-risk part of NY's population directly in harm's way. Or how NY had no emergency supplies squirreled away prior to when COVID hit. And those are just two of the many fuck-ups that happened in my home state.

If you take a closer look, hilariously incompetent mismanagement of this crisis at a state level has been the norm since it began, and in the areas with the highest counts of the 'Rona, you see the biggest fuck-ups by far. That's a state government problem.

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

I imagine it may have to do with the blatant fuck-ups commited by local governments, such as Andrew Cuomo's nursing home edict that by all accounts, put the most at-risk part of NY's population directly in harm's way. Or how NY had no emergency supplies squirreled away prior to when COVID hit. And those are just two of the many fuck-ups that happened in my home state.

If you take a closer look, hilariously incompetent mismanagement of this crisis at a state level has been the norm since it began, and in the areas with the highest counts of the 'Rona, you see the biggest fuck-ups by far. That's a state government problem.

Yeah, Trump calling it a hoax and downplaying it (especially because the states hit hardest were blue states) totally had nothing to do with it. Especially when he was telling his supporters not to wear masks (like at his Texas rally).

You can admit Trump fucked up hard on the covid response. It doesn't make you a bad person

 

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

I'm sick of people thinking a global pandemic is a US liberal media conspiracy, regardless of anything else (like BLM or other retardation from the left).

 

[Hollywood Hitler]

Amazing how the US has only 360 million people, yet accounts for almost 25% of world-wide covid cases. Why the hell do you think that is? You can admit that your cult leader fucked up the covid response, it doesn't make you a bad person. It takes a big person to admit that you were stupid and you were supporting an incompetent dumbass.

And are you saying that people with high-risk comorbidities don't count? Do you also say "all lives matter", because if so, that's really hypocritical

I'm saying old people or people who were already on a fast pace to deaths door dying isn't a reason to put a country on lockdown. That's just insanity.

 

[Jaimas]

Yeah, Trump calling it a hoax and downplaying it (especially because the states hit hardest were blue states) totally had nothing to do with it. Especially when he was telling his supporters not to wear masks (like at his Texas rally).

You can admit Trump fucked up hard on the covid response. It doesn't make you a bad person

It's really weird how you keep doing this.

You condemn Trump for shit like that, but you won't even respond to equally egregious fuck-ups - such as the WHO saying there was no human-to-human transmission of COVID-19, Twitter giving the Chinese government a pass to spread misinformation about COVID back in March, the CDC going back and forth on mask-wearing repeatedly, or putting out that pants-shittingly stupid "it's OK to protest if you're BLM" shit.

Calling out his missteps is fine. None but the most Autistic here would take issue with you if you were doing that. Unfortunately, that's fucking not what you've been doing in this and almost a dozen other threads now. You have made abundantly clear that you feel Trump harbors 100% of all responsibility for the crisis, but that simply doesn't make logical sense, especially when there's so many angles to this fucking thing.

I don't know whether it's because you're trying some weird, deep-cover version of the Catparty gambit or if something about this whole shebang is just personal for you, but I hope things get better for you eventually.

 

[CheezzyMach]

Yeah, Trump calling it a hoax and downplaying it (especially because the states hit hardest were blue states) totally had nothing to do with it. Especially when he was telling his supporters not to wear masks (like at his Texas rally).

You can admit Trump fucked up hard on the covid response. It doesn't make you a bad person

I can't take anything Trump says regarding this shit seriously because the man changes his stance every week for the sake of his image and the Democrats are being authoritarian woke pandering shitheads.* Seattle wanting to replace it's police force with the Pronoun Enforcers legit pissed me off , since when do Troon nutters have anything to do with police brutality? *

The ONLY people who have been serious and consistent with this shit are Doctor Fauci and Birx meanwhile our politicians are using it as an excuse to go on power trips and fling shit at each other.

A deadly pandemic should not be politicized and turned into a schoolyard brawl between autistic spoiled toddlers yet here we are.

I hate how politics have degraded these last 5 years.