Saturday, May 30, 2020

The Curious Case of the Term -> Fact-Checked w.r.t. Social Media

There’s difference between Occurring & Triggering. Whilst former could be natural unanticipated, latter is deliberate. Covid’s origination is still a mystery. And thanks to severe initial lapses & distortion of reliability & trust, now all could gain benefit of doubt of their own theories of origination whilst the rest could be discharged. And henceforth, if you witness more spying everywhere, don’t get surprised.

But amidst this, a Social Media Giant Twitter started openly using the term ‘Fact-Checked’, the term which is inappropriate at many levels & has implications too.

Let’s take examples one by one:

1.     Early research on human-to-human transmission w.r.t. Covid:

Early research on human-to-human transmission was wrong, indeed. Presume, had some Other Researcher presented counter theory at the same time & had any social media giant tagged that Theory as ‘Fact-Checked’ supporting the ‘no human-to-human transmission’ one (the theory which ended up being claptrap). Now what were the options left for any social media giant? ‘Fact-Checking’ again? And even if they had done that, what about implications of earlier absolute ‘Fact-Checking’?

2.     Regarding HCQ+Zinc use:

 Firstly, are all medicines & vaccines in the world safe & have no side effects? Are all expensive cancer drugs/treatments safe & sound? Have we found cure for all diseases? Certainly not! So when there was nothing 100% effective in this uncharted territory, & all were trying for everything to ameliorate, research of HCQ+Zinc use was suddenly stopped on the basis of one research despite the fact that there were other researches that contended ‘hope’ for HCQ+Zinc! So how a social media giant could’ve decided on ‘Fact-Checking’ in such cases? Investigating by themselves or believing MSM or taking legal course of action?

3.     The curious case of Herd Immunity:

Some Top Epidemiologists contended/betted for it (like Sweden) whilst Some went against it (like, go for Lockdown). Now how & on what grounds Social Media giants could’ve used the term ‘Fact-Checked’? And just look at the hypocrisy. None condemned Sweden for it but when the same strategy was followed by U.K. & Brazil, all started screeching.

4.     The same case is with researches made on UV light, Surface Suspension, Air borne, Orthodox Medications etc.  

For me, the term ‘Traverse’ meant to Ameliorate. But only two synonyms reverberated in my ears: Share || Dreams, since beginning. Idea of One World was in any case clap trap. And now, after distrust in International Organizations, spying would increase as all would march towards Protectionism & would want to ascertain first hand information coming from their own sources rather outside. This is not how the World should’ve evolved! These things are by-products of Funded Unauthentic & Detestable Doctrines which I was since beginning pleading / requesting to take cognizance of, in front of whomsoever I could’ve done.

Once someone told me, in my teens:

An advise of an ‘ameliorated’  ‘original’ teacher is priceless than an advise of a shopkeeper.

Simple Principles. 😊  

© Pranav Chaturvedi 2020