Mark Zuckerberg’s stalled social media platform recently rolled out its search feature, but it currently blocks terms related to COVID-19 and vaccines.
A Washington Post investigation discovered the platform will present users with a blank screen and a pop-up link to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) website if they search for terms such as “covid” or “long covid”.
According to the Post’s experiments, words like “coronavirus,” “vaccines,” and “vaccination” are also blocked.
Threads’ parent company, Meta, issued a statement after the Post’s investigation went live.
“We just began rolling out keyword search for Threads to additional countries last week. The search functionality temporarily doesn’t provide results for keywords that may show potentially sensitive content,” a Meta spokesperson said in its statement.
“People will be able to search for keywords such as ‘COVID’ in future updates once we are confident in the quality of the results.”
The censorship comes as the media renews its obsession with the pandemic and the FDA approves the latest version of the COVID-19 vaccine.
The CDC recently issued warnings to the public after data showed hospitalizations due to COVID starting to tick up again with the end of summer, blaming the rise of a new, highly-mutated variant.
As such, public health care officials criticized Meta’s decision to block related terms.
World Health Network Outreach Director Julia Doubleday said social media is vital to patients who may be searching for information about their recently diagnosed illnesses.
“Long COVID patients have died of organ failure, infections, cardiac events and more, and social media is one place they can share information. Cutting off communication between suffering and disabled patients is cruel in the extreme,” Doubleday said. “It’s indefensible.”
Assessments have also confirmed myocarditis as a recognized complication of mRNA vaccines, especially among young men, which the FDA has again approved for use this fall.
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Threads always censors
Like rename Facebook Censorbook
This is exactly why I would never waste my time with this Socialistic site! Why do you waste yours on it?
So Mark Zuckerberg thinks he is the one to decide what we can see … well maybe it is time to shut down his platform. Remember what a boycott did to Bud Light ,,,, maybe it is a time to censor Zuckerberg.
If Zuckerberg (Mr. Drop Boxes) is involved…
I am not! He’s a Traitor and a spy.
What a loser zuckerberg is. He may be worth billions, but his dislike of the country that made him wealthy is on full display. He has no interest in seeing America the way it should be seen, the way Musk wants it to be seen. He wants to be Golum and hide everything in the dark.