Calling out fake news: prohibitionists getting owned by community notes

[Toby iVapour]

Good article here about how some big name (or people with influence) prohibitionists are getting called out on X (Twitter) via readers' Community Notes -

Calling out fake news: prohibitionists getting owned by community notes

We’ve seen some really funny - and quite shocking - examples of people who really should know better having their posts torn to shreds by others on the Community Notes feature. So we thought we’d pull together an occasional series where we showcase the best of them.

www.clearingtheair.eu

.. which brings me to the question - why do big organisations like the WHO, and politicians like congressmen and MPs globally continue to peddle their lies about vaping on social media?

 

[zouzounaki]

it’s madness.

 

[Toby iVapour]

More BS from the WHO -

With Community Note added -

This post is based on inconclusive evidence utilizing studies that have not been peer reviewed. The claim is based on approximately 120 incidents that occured since 2019 with an inconclusive outcome.

 

[Richard Winter]

More BS from the WHO -

With Community Note added -

I nearly had a seizure reading this bollocks.

 

[MHL]

It's maddening and saddening.

They have been called out in a couple of (much less widely read, unfortunately) balance pieces:

https://www.science.org/content/article/who-warning-vaping-draws-harsh-response-uk-researchers

Why the WHO is wrong about vaping

The health institution’s anti-vaping approach set out in its latest report on the global tobacco pandemic is scientifically unjustified and will co...

www.theparliamentmagazine.eu

 

[Toby iVapour]

Another article about it here (the WHO have been lying about vaping for years) -

Elon Musk’s ‘Community Notes’ are exposing the WHO’s lies | Blaze Media

Maybe the World Health Organization should just get off social media until its spokespeople are trained to stop sowing doubt and confusion that can only harm global public health.

www.theblaze.com

In January 2020, as it became clear that countries outside of China were reporting COVID cases, the taxpayer-funded World Health Organization instead spent its time publishing a series of 14 tweets about the dangers of vaping, including claims that e-cigarette liquid is “highly flammable,” that secondhand vapor is lethal to bystanders, and that there is no evidence that e-cigarettes help people to quit smoking, all of which are entirely false.

Continuing attempts to mislead the public (for whatever reason) is unethical and counterproductive for an organization like the WHO, whose supposed mission is to promote global public health based on evidence and scientific consensus.

 

[Blacksword]

Another article about it here (the WHO have been lying about vaping for years) -

Elon Musk’s ‘Community Notes’ are exposing the WHO’s lies | Blaze Media

Maybe the World Health Organization should just get off social media until its spokespeople are trained to stop sowing doubt and confusion that can only harm global public health.

www.theblaze.com

Words fail me.

 

[Richard Winter]

Another article about it here (the WHO have been lying about vaping for years) -

Elon Musk’s ‘Community Notes’ are exposing the WHO’s lies | Blaze Media

Maybe the World Health Organization should just get off social media until its spokespeople are trained to stop sowing doubt and confusion that can only harm global public health.

www.theblaze.com

Organisations like these can only keep telling lies for so long before it comes back and smackes them in the face. They should be hung, drawn and quartered

 

[zouzounaki]

they are mad puritans.