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View submission: COVID denialism and policy clarifications
It's being used to turn people against the academic and professional communities by telling them that their opinion is as valuable as a person with years of experience in a field.
I want to define exactly what you mean by "it" as for what is misinformation. If you're talking about unfettered free speech, then proof would be things like this[1] where these people who received misinformation went on to take action from it causing people to die[2] because they latch on to this misinformation. It's indirectly causing people to die.
You know who else thought a global pandemic was coming in December of 2019? Me and anyone else who saw how China was handling their lockdowns and how quickly it was spreading to other countries. As they say, a broken clock is right twice a day. Many people there seem to think the last election was stolen[3] which is verifiably false so clearly they aren't very good at being right
3: https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/l5rux5/was_the_2020_election_stolen/
Comment by BeKindDude at 03/09/2021 at 00:17 UTC
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"It's being used to turn people against the academic and professional communities by telling them that their opinion is as valuable as a person with years of experience in a field."
The academic community is just as split on the issue. You'd know that if you weren't blindly supporting censorship.