Posted on 08/20/2021 5:18:16 AM PDT by Meah
A top official at Facebook laid out actions the social network had taken to contain the spread of misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines by 12 prominent users Wednesday, but denied claims by the White House that the so-called “disinformation dozen” were responsible for the majority of all such falsehoods.
“In recent months, there has been a debate about whether the global problem of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation can be solved simply by removing 12 people from social media platforms,” Facebook Vice President of Content Policy Monika Bickert said in a statement.
“People who have advanced this narrative contend that these 12 people are responsible for 73 [percent] of online vaccine misinformation on Facebook,” Bickert added. “There isn’t any evidence to support this claim. Moreover, focusing on such a small group of people distracts from the complex challenges we all face in addressing misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines.”
The 12 Facebook users — including prominent anti-vaccination advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — were initially identified in a March report by the London-based Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH). That report alleged that the “disinformation dozen” were responsible for 65 percent of “anti-vaccine content” on Facebook and Twitter, as well as “up to 73 percent” of anti-vaccine content on Facebook...
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So, Facebook clowns are a judge of accurate medical information?
There’s a reason that they are mere coders and not physicians.
And there’s a reason that Fauci is a mere administrator, not a real doctor (any more)
I am currently fighting my local library system over purchase request denials for the Mercola COVID-19 book and the RFK Fauci book. When our government actively suppresses information critical of it we are in big trouble!
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Banned books. It’s all so very soviet.
Wait, I’m confused. First they talk about ‘misinformation, then they start taking about ANTI-vaxers instead of the pro contingent.
I feel so much safer knowing that a 25 year-old booger picker is looking out for me.
Your point is well-taken, but in this case Fakebook is the party arguing AGAINST silencing these 12 (at least specifically).
Frankly Fauci and the CDC have convinced me to never take the vaccine. I don’t need those dozen. I have not heard of most of them. Its the obvious misinformation and lack of logic in the statements by Fauci and the CDC that make me feel, my best chances are with vitamin D and good weight management. Most of my family has had the virus. And they all got through it just fine. There is no reason to think a healthy person won’t do well without a vaccine.
The nation that birthed Orwell has ironically, or perhaps prophetically, embraced newspeak.
If RFK Jr. presents arguments/evidence against the Frankenjab, it's "hate"? Wow! What the media does with language is disgusting.
Facebook plays “God”. That’s all.
Kamala Harris is about to tour Asia to lecture other countries about a “free society”—one that censors its opponents and favors mass medical experimentation of a propagandized population.
It used to be Illegal and a Criminal Offense to Practice Medicine without a License. When you take it upon yourself to decide what Medical Information is Necessary and Factual, you are Practicing Medicine, ARREST ALL OF THEM!
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