Alt-Rite Wing-Nut Wrote:
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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.
>
> Representative Mike Doyle made the call to remove
> their accounts during a US congressional session
> on how the three firms were dealing with fake
> news.
>
> He challenged Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey and
> Sundar Pinchai to deplatform the dozen people
> immediately.
>
> None have responded to the call so far.
>
> Facebook said that it was looking into the matter
> to see if the accounts violated its community
> standards.
>
> Twitter and Google have not responded to the BBC
> on the specific request to remove the accounts.
>
> The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH)
> analysed more than 812,000 Facebook and Twitter
> vaccine-related posts and found that 65% of
> anti-vaccine posts came from what it called the
> "disinformation dozen".
>
> "Anti-vaccine activists on Facebook, YouTube,
> Instagram and Twitter reach more than 59 million
> followers, making these the largest and most
> important social media platforms for
> anti-vaxxers," the report said.
>
> Three of the 12 have been removed from at least
> one platform but none have been removed from all.
This Checks Out!
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