{"id":14265,"date":"2024-04-19T09:33:24","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T09:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/calling-out-fake-news-part-2-prohibitionists-getting-owned-by-community-notes\/"},"modified":"2025-01-07T12:10:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T12:10:32","slug":"calling-out-fake-news-part-2-prohibitionists-getting-owned-by-community-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/en\/post\/calling-out-fake-news-part-2-prohibitionists-getting-owned-by-community-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Calling out fake news part 2: prohibitionists getting owned by community notes"},"content":{"rendered":"

We had a great reaction to our first post on prohibitionists getting owned by community notes. It was the most read and most tweeted story we\u2019ve produced in the weeks since we launched. It was so good that <\/strong>the Daily Mail stole our idea<\/strong><\/a>. Props to them.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Because of that, and because the madness hasn\u2019t stopped yet, here\u2019s a second in this open-ended series. As long as this kind of fake news is pushed, we\u2019ll keep calling it out.<\/p>\n

Canadian Lung Health Foundation doesn\u2019t know what \u201cyouth\u201d means<\/strong><\/p>\n

In one of the most ridiculous examples of fake news we\u2019ve seen to date, the Canadian Lung Health Foundation made the extraordinary claim that three quarters of a million Canadian \u201cyouth\u201d were vaping daily. <\/p>\n

The problem was that their definition of \u201cyouth\u201d included people up to the age of 30!<\/p>\n

We called for a Community note to be added two days after the post was made, and Community Notes responded in classic style. In case you\u2019re wondering, the actual number based on the same data for those under 19 was around one fifth of what the Lung Foundation claimed.<\/p>\n

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Fake claims made about a bag full of Elf Bars in Chicago<\/strong><\/p>\n

User @doxie_gay, a Chicago native with over 17,000 followers, tweeted out a photo of a trash bag full of Elf Bars, claiming that their \u201cfriend\u201d was a school teacher in Chicago and had collected all of these in three days.<\/p>\n

The problem was that we know that this claim can\u2019t be true.<\/p>\n

The same image has been tweeted multiple times since 2023 with the same claim about them being found in a school; when in fact the image had first been tweeted by user @MostEvilMan in August 2023 with no reference to schools whatsoever.<\/p>\n

We wonder how many people have been fooled by this image since it made its way onto the internet.<\/p>\n

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Vaccine sceptics take on vaping<\/strong><\/p>\n

UK vaccine sceptic campaign group \u201cInformed Consent Matters\u201d made the bizarre claim that vaping is part of some sort of government depopulation strategy, claiming that \u201cwhat cigarettes do in 40 years, vaping will do in 10\u201d. This bizarre rant was immediately debunked by the X Community Notes team. We wonder why such a clearly bonkers group of people are even allowed on the platform. <\/p>\n

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And to the surprise of absolutely no-one, WHO continues to take measures to undermine its waning credibility with another baseless attack on vaping\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

As covered by the Daily Mail, the World Health Organisation once again made a mockery of itself by claiming that vaping can cause a seizure in 24 hours.<\/p>\n

After users including @ChaunceyGardner asked the WHO to provide peer reviewed evidence or delete the erroneous statement, Community notes clarified that the claim was \u201cbased on inconclusive evidence utilizing studies that have not been peer reviewed\u201d.<\/p>\n

The incident caused longtime public health activists to start to question the approach of WHO to vaping and safer nicotine in general.<\/p>\n

Steve Rolles, of Transform, slammed the WHO for the statement, saying that \u201ctheir position on vaping is inexplicable & deeply irresponsible; unscientific scaremongering, preferencing smoked tobacco, & abandoning harm reduction pragmatism\u201d.<\/p>\n

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