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Facebook, Twitter and Google have been urged by a US lawmaker to ban a dozen people who it is claimed are spreading the vast majority of disinformation about Covid vaccinations.
Take anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., one of the "Disinformation Dozen" identified by the center, who has promoted the long discredited idea that vaccines are linked to autism.
The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) has recently released a report entitled The Disinformation Dozen, and its main take-home message is that two-thirds of anti-vaccine content shared or posted on Facebook and Twitter between February 1 and March 16, 2021, can be attributed to just twelve individuals. Twelve.
A study made by the center for countering digital hate found out that twelve individuals, referred to as Disinformation Dozen (Disinfo12), were responsible for 65% of Covid-19 misinformation circulating on social media.
The majority of disinformation about COVID-19 vaccines originates from a small number of accounts. These accounts are known to social media platforms, so why don't the companies just shut them...
Journalist Jan Fran explains how a lot of the misinformation being spread in the anti-vax movement can be linked back to 12 people known as the 'Disinformation Dozen'.
Facebook on Wednesday announced that it had taken action against the so-called “disinformation dozen,” one month after the White House singled out the twelve people and argued that they were ...
