A Meta spokesperson acknowledged that Threads was intentionally blocking the search terms.
Julia Doubleday, outreach director at the World Health Network, a non profit dedicated to fighting coronavirus, said that “Social media is a lifeline for patients, literally. 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. It’s indefensible.
“Ever since Elon took over Twitter, people with long covid have been experiencing more harassment and it’s been harder to connect on there,” said Fiona Lowenstein, editor of the Long Covid Survivor Guide, a book about managing long covid symptoms. The decision, Vraga said, was indicative of Meta’s apparent inability to meaningfully moderate content at scale. “Meta and all of its products have long had a hands-off approach,” she said. “They really don’t want to be seen as deciding truth versus not truth and I think this is a continuation of that. They are often sidestepping the really complicated, and very difficult [moderation] decisions.”
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