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Brands are financing vaccine misinformation
New research shows how ads enable fake news, why private equity is coming for ad agencies, and Brun…
Lucia Moses  Â
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Anti-vaxxers outside the US still have channels with hundreds of thousands of subscribers despite YouTube's ban
A UK charity says some of the most influential anti-vaccine activists appear to have evaded YouTube…
Tom Porter  Â
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Facebook has no idea how far COVID-19 vaccine misinformation has spread.
Facebook data scientists told the New York Times that they asked the company for help to measure mi…
Katie Canales  Â
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Amazon appears to have donated $40,000 to a top source of vaccine misinformation, according to a screenshot posted by a volunteer for the group
Amazon donated $40,000 in funds to a major source of vaccine misinformation, according to a report …
Rachel E. Greenspan  Â
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Mark Zuckerberg knows how bad Facebook's misinformation problem is because the White House has told him directly
Facebook is the primary source of vaccination misinformation and CEO Mark Zuckerberg knows it, says…
Ben Gilbert  Â
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Facebook removed COVID-19 vaccine misinformation in Israel after government request
Facebook reportedly removed anti-vaccine content in Israel per a justice ministry request. The cont…
Kevin Shalvey  Â
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Pfizer CEO calls people who spread misinformation on COVID-19 vaccines 'criminals because they have literally cost millions of lives'
"They're not bad people," Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said Tuesday. "They're criminals because they ha…
Lauren Frias  Â
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Facebook, Twitter, and Google are uniting to stop vaccine misinformation from spreading online
During the pandemic, misinformation about public health guidelines spread on Facebook, Twitter, You…
Allana Akhtar  Â
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Social media superspreaders: Why Instagram, not Facebook, will be the real battleground for COVID-19 vaccine misinformation
Instagram has the fastest-growing audience for anti-vaxx content - and accounts that are kicked off…
Isobel Asher Hamilton  Â
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President Biden's message to Facebook: You're 'killing people'
President Joe Biden said platforms like Facebook were "killing people" by spreading vaccine misinfo…
Dominick Reuter  Â
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Facebook has launched another crackdown on anti-vax misinformation. Experts say it doesn't go far enough.
Facebook updated its vaccine misinformation policies, but the Center for Countering Digital Hate sa…
Isobel Asher Hamilton  Â
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All 4 nurses in a Kansas county's health department refused to give out COVID-19 vaccines
The health department administrator shared debunked vaccine misinformation as part of their reasoni…
Mary Meisenzahl  Â
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YouTube announced a crackdown on anti-vaccine content, but 2 people from the 'Disinformation Dozen' are still on the platform
The Google-owned platform announced its expanded medical misinformation guidelines in a blog post o…
Kieran Press-Reynolds  Â
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A former Vlog Squad member spread vaccine misinformation on TikTok, saying the shots are 'used by the devil'
Nik Keswani, known online as BigNik, has spread misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine on his Ti…
Steven Asarch  Â
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Twitter says it will ban users who repeatedly post misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines
Twitter will use automated and human reviewers to identify and label misleading posts about COVID-1…
Allana Akhtar  Â
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Elon Musk has a 'huge responsibility' to tackle vaccine misinformation on Twitter, WHO official says
"We wish Mr Musk luck with his endeavours to improve the quality of information that we all receive…
Isobel Asher Hamilton  Â
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Facebook rejects Joe Biden's claim it's 'killing people' with misinformation, saying vaccine hesitancy among its users has dropped by 50%
Facebook said 85% of its US users have been vaccinated, so Biden can't blame it for missing his 60%…
Isobel Asher Hamilton  Â
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The White House isn't letting Facebook off the hook for allowing misinformation to spread on its platforms
"Facebook needs to move more quickly to remove violative posts," White House press secretary Jen Ps…
Allana Akhtar  Â
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Facebook scientists asked to study COVID-19 misinformation at the beginning of the pandemic, but Facebook ignored them, a report says
Facebook scientists asked for resources to study the spread of COVID-19 misinformation, two people …
Isobel Asher Hamilton  Â
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Facebook found that a vast amount of its anti-vaxx content comes from a hard core of only 111 accounts
Facebook in a report claimed to have identified the most influential anti-vaxx accounts, but it's u…