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A tiny group of anti-vaxxers are flooding the internet with misinformation

Rogue Valley

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3/30/21
A recent PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll found that 30 percent of those surveyed in March 2021 told pollsters that, if offered the COVID-19 vaccine, they would not take it. The huge number of vaccine-hesitant Americans might give the impression that anti-vaccination propaganda is rampant. Yet it turns out that a select few very loud voices are responsible for a great deal of online misinformation regarding vaccines. Their disproportionate ability to spread disinformation should give social media platforms pause. In their recent report, the CCDH revealed that these twelve people and their groups have disseminated nearly two-thirds of the anti-vaccine misinformation they have been tracing on Facebook and Twitter between Feb. 1 and March 16 of this year. Overall the CCDH found that the information they had been tracing was shared or posted on one of those platforms roughly 812,000 times, even though their inaccurate statements about vaccines violate those companies' terms of service. Indeed, according to the nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a mere dozen individuals and their organizations are responsible for up to 65% of the anti-vaccine misinformation that is spreading on social media platforms. The most famous of the so-called "Disinformation Dozen" is Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., nephew of President John F. Kennedy.

One of them, Rizza Islam, has argued that Bill Gates is behind the COVID-19 pandemic, claimed he "beat" the disease through a special diet, and repeated the debunked claim that vaccines cause autism. Anti-vaccine entrepreneurs Ty and Charlene Bollinger have used their Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts (all of which remain active) to denounce the "fake pandemic" and spread an inaccurate story claiming that a COVID-19 vaccine had killed seven children in Senegal. They have also established ties with the far right, repeating the disproved talking point that Joe Biden stole the 2020 election from Donald Trump. Another anti-vaccine entrepreneur, Joseph Mercola, has referred to the pandemic as a "scam" and argued that "hydrogen peroxide treatment" can successfully treat most viral respiratory illnesses, including the coronavirus. "The Disinformation Dozen — including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Joseph Mercola, and Ty and Charlene Bollinger, among others — continually violate the terms of service agreements on Facebook and Twitter," the CCDH explains in the summary of their report. "While some anti-vaxxers identified by CCDH have been removed from a single platform, comprehensive action has yet to be taken, and most remain active on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter."


If you are a user on Twitter, Facebook, and/or Instagram remember ..... 66% of the false vaccine information presented on these social media platforms originates from only 12 anti-vaxxer individuals.

Don't assume that individuals with notoriety or famous last names have professional backgrounds in immunology or virology. They don't. They are pushing a personal agenda.
 
Also, if you are getting vital information about a vaccine that has the potential to save millions of lives and is a huge step toward getting back to normal, please do not rely on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram for that information.
 
Where is the complaint department? My microchip won't connect to the internet and I'm still waiting for the lizard dna to kick in.
 
RFK Jr. has been anti-vaxxing his butt off since before the first vaccines rolled out.
 




If you are a user on Twitter, Facebook, and/or Instagram remember ..... 66% of the false vaccine information presented on these social media platforms originates from only 12 anti-vaxxer individuals.

Don't assume that individuals with notoriety or famous last names have professional backgrounds in immunology or virology. They don't. They are pushing a personal agenda.
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Indeed, according to the nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH)....

"The Center for Countering Digital Hate" LOL! It sounds too much like Derek Zoolander's Center For Kids Who Can't Read Good

Plus...the article is from Salon, which is the left's version of StormFront. haha
 
A tiny group of anti-vaxxers are flooding the internet with misinformation

The Internet is the greatest Information warfare tool ever invented. The key element of this tool will never be the number of "Researchers" peddling misinformation. It will always be their instant access to millions of of idle minds with nothing better to do, minds just begging to be bent.

Why do we think Qanon took off while so many people were idle under Pandemic lockdown with nothing better to do but let their minds wander.

As Ron Watkins (with whom we should all be familiar by now) has said, "If 230 (rule 230) goes away, the web sites go away". That is as close to an admission as we are ever going to see that they have been peddling mind control crap all along. That it has all been all BS, all the time. That the "Research" that Qanon proponents think they are conducting, on pedophiles is not research at all and they are NOT researchers. They are the subjects of the actual research by the actual researchers which is information warfare research. How do you find and mine idle minds that are attached to bodies that can be compelled to do things like .....like.....like attack The Capitol as part of an attempted Insurrection on Jan 6th as an example.
 
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