The enemy of your enemy is not your friend if your gripe is with Jeff Zients, but you’re considering teaming up with Sunetra Gupta. This doesn’t make sense. And neither does hyping the billionaire Facebook CEO because you’re angry that some pro-mask posts and discussion of long covid have been suppressed on social media. Guess what? I am too, and I’ve documented it. But people are still saying that pro-mask and long covid chronic illness topics are suppressed on social media. And I can pretty much guarantee that Mark Zuckerberg is not sad that the anyone downplayed the seriousness of covid. His letter was apparently addressing a period of time that includes late 2020, when for example Joe Biden, who was not yet the president, had someone reach out to Twitter to have apparently politically motivated revenge porn removed that was posted by James Woods, and which violated all sorts of platform policies and probably some laws. The truth is Zuckerberg is doing a mea culpa to signal he’s sorry for removing anti-vax disinformation. He’s certainly NOT saying he wishes he had promoted masks and other NPIs. Mark Zuckerberg is not championing the cause of public health and pro-mask messaging, and there is likely not much common ground to be found with alt-right ivermectin promoting dick-pic posting anti-vaxxers and tycoons yelling about censorship.
I’m not asking everyone to be perfect and recognize every disinformation narrative out there for what it is instantly, but can we at least, for pity’s sake at a bare minimum, at least people with audiences, not reshare dangerous colloidal silver promotion, cite Trump administration doctors, nod to stuff associated with the movie “Plandemic”, and at least ignore the foolishness of right-wing tescreal billionaires whining about having anti-vax misinformation and racist slurs “censored” in public spaces? Mmm?