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they were met with a blank screen that showed no search results and a pop-up linking to the website of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Preventing finding misinformation and sending to a trusted source sounds good to me. Social media being used as a source is why idiots were eating horse dewormer.
Lucky Tran, director of science communication at Columbia University, discovered this himself when he attempted to use Threads to seek out research related to covid, something he says he does every day. “I was excited by search [on Threads],” he said. “When I typed in covid, I came up with no search results.”
Yes. It's better than showing misinformation. SNS is notoriously bad at helping "doing your own research".
I mean I guess it's better than amplifying misinformation, but it's still a cop-out to get out of moderating the topic. Mildly curious just how many topics Threads censors search results for.
What… This is good news because info on Covid should not be from social networks.
If someone needs those info they should check the gov website..
Well that's not good but also not unexpected. Does anyone still use threads though?