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Covid vaccine: Social media urged to remove 'disinfo dozen'
Source: BBC
Covid vaccine: Social media urged to remove 'disinfo dozen'
26 March 2021
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.
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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".
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26 March 2021
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.
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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".
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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56536390
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Related: The Disinformation Dozen (Center for Countering Digital Hate)