Meta acknowledged that Threads is intentionally blocking the search terms.

Public health experts denounced the platform’s moderation policies, which they say restrict access to critical health information

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  • bedrooms@kbin.social
    29·
    1 year ago

    Lucky Tran, director of science communication at Columbia University, discovered this himself when he attempted to use Threads to seek out research related to covid, something he says he does every day. “I was excited by search [on Threads],” he said. “When I typed in covid, I came up with no search results.”

    Yes. It’s better than showing misinformation. SNS is notoriously bad at helping “doing your own research”.

    • marco@beehaw.orgEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      Blocking search terms is not a substitute for proper content moderation.

      Meta acknowledged in a statement to The Washington Post that Threads is intentionally blocking the search terms and said that other terms are being blocked, but the company declined to provide a list of them. A search by The Post discovered that the words “sex,” “nude,” “gore,” “porn,” “coronavirus,” “vaccines” and “vaccination” are also among blocked words.