[ExI] Just say no to Google

[Keith Henson]

I signed off of Titter/X almost a year ago.  It used to be where
Anders Sandberg posted.

So I don't know how much medical advice they are pushing.  I have been
on Facebook recently, and if you mention or respond to anything
medical, they aggressively fill your feed with medical ads. including
some with long, deep fake spells from "Elon Musk" hawking pills to fix
your liver or heart in three days.

Some people are going to take the ads seriously and do harm to
themselves or someone else.  It surprises me that Meta allows this,
and almost as much that Musk does not go after them.

Keith

On Wed, Nov 19, 2025 at 2:50 PM spike jones via extropy-chat
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> >...Perhaps you meant to say, "TwitterX shouldn't dispense medical advice", or "TwitterX doesn't dispense legally reliable medical advice".  In the former case, you again confuse "shouldn't" for "doesn't".
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> Adrian, are you suggesting it is Twitter's responsibility to determine what is and what is not medical advice?  There are TwitterX users there who dispense medical advice in that medium, but TwitterX isn't doing that, the advisor is doing that.  It is information-buyer-beware on the internet, considering the information is free.  Twitter (and every other social medium) provides a platform, not a doctor.  One's own doctor is where to get medical advice.
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> TwitterX is the world's town hall, not the world's doctor.
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