Just 12 People Are Behind Most Vaccine Hoaxes On Social Media, Research Shows

[itfitzme]

The Disinformation Dozen are responsible for up to 65% of antivaccine content

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Executive Summary

1. The Disinformation Dozen are twelve anti-vaxxers who play leading roles in spreading digital misinformation about Covid vaccines. They were selected because they have large numbers of followers, produce high volumes of anti-vaccine content or have seen rapid growth of their social media accounts in the last two months.

2. Analysis of a sample of anti-vaccine content that was shared or posted on Facebook and Twitter a total of 812,000 times between 1 February and 16 March 2021 shows that 65 percent of anti-
vaccine content is attributable to the Disinformation Dozen.

3. Despite repeatedly violating Facebook, Instagram and Twitter’s terms of service agreements, nine of the Disinformation Dozen remain on all three platforms, while just three have been comprehensively removed from just one platform.

4. This is the product of a series of failures from social media platforms:

.....a. Research conducted by CCDH last year has shown that platforms fail to act on 95 percent of the Covid and vaccine misinformation reported to them.

.....b. CCDH’s recent report, Malgorithm, uncovered evidence that Instagram’s algorithm actively recommends similar misinformation.

.....c. Tracking of 425 anti-vaccine accounts by CCDH shows that their total following across platforms now stood at 59.2 million in December, an increase of 877,000 more than they had in June.

.....d. CCDH’s ongoing tracking shows that the 20 anti-vaxxers with the largest followings account for over two-thirds of this total cross-platform following of 59.2 million.

5. Analysis of anti-vaccine content posted to Facebook over 689,000 times in the last two months shows that up to 73 percent of that content originates with members of the Disinformation Dozen of leading online anti-vaxxers.

6. Facebook’s own internal analysis of vaccine hesitant content on its platform is likely to underestimate the influence of leading anti-vaxxers by failing to address the ultimate source of this content, and by the recorded failure of its algorithms to identify content concerning vaccines.

7. Analysis of over 120,000 anti-vaccine tweets collected in the last two months shows that up to 17 percent feature the Disinformation Dozen of leading online anti-vaxxers.

8. The most effective and efficient way to stop the dissemination of harmful information is to deplatform the most highly visible repeat offenders, who we term the Disinformation Dozen. This should also include the organisations these individuals control or fund, as well as any backup accounts they have established to evade removal.

9. Platforms should establish a clear threshold for enforcement action, such as two strikes, after which restrictions are applied to accounts short of deplaforming them.

10. Users should be presented with warning screens when attempting to follow links to sites known to host vaccine misinformation, and users exposed to posts containing misinformation should be shown effective corrections.

11. Facebook should not allow private and secret anti-vaccine Groups where dangerous anti-vaccine disinformation can be spread with impunity.

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For instance;

1 Joseph Mercola Facebook: Active Twitter: Active Instagram: Active Joseph Mercola is a successful anti-vaccine entrepreneur, peddling dietary supplements and false cures as alternatives to vaccines. Mercola’s combined personal social media accounts have around 3.6 million followers

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There is $$$ to be made.

Nobody likes censorship. But with 615,000 people dead from COVID, countless more with lifelong debilitating damage to their lungs and a growing list of other bodily processes, there has gotta be a limit.

"The highly contagious delta variant is responsible for an estimated 83 percent of COVID-19 cases across the United States."

Short of dying.

"several states that are reporting the highest number of new infections are also seeing vaccination rates higher than the nation's average. Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Missouri and Nevada were the states officials said have seen the increase."

U.S. States With High COVID Cases Seeing Vaccination Rate Increase: WH

"The fourth surge is real, and the numbers are quite frightening at the moment," Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said.

www.newsweek.com

Do you gotta be hit upside the head with a board to figure out the difference between fantasy and reality?

 

[Circe]

And three or four of them are on this forum ----

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

The Disinformation Dozen are responsible for up to 65% of antivaccine content

https://252f2edd-1c8b-49f5-9bb2-cb57bb47e4ba.filesusr.com/ugd/f4d9b9_b7cedc0553604720b7137f8663366ee5.pdf

Executive Summary

1. The Disinformation Dozen are twelve anti-vaxxers who play leading roles in spreading digital misinformation about Covid vaccines. They were selected because they have large numbers of followers, produce high volumes of anti-vaccine content or have seen rapid growth of their social media accounts in the last two months.

2. Analysis of a sample of anti-vaccine content that was shared or posted on Facebook and Twitter a total of 812,000 times between 1 February and 16 March 2021 shows that 65 percent of anti-
vaccine content is attributable to the Disinformation Dozen.

3. Despite repeatedly violating Facebook, Instagram and Twitter’s terms of service agreements, nine of the Disinformation Dozen remain on all three platforms, while just three have been comprehensively removed from just one platform.

4. This is the product of a series of failures from social media platforms:

.....a. Research conducted by CCDH last year has shown that platforms fail to act on 95 percent of the Covid and vaccine misinformation reported to them.

.....b. CCDH’s recent report, Malgorithm, uncovered evidence that Instagram’s algorithm actively recommends similar misinformation.

.....c. Tracking of 425 anti-vaccine accounts by CCDH shows that their total following across platforms now stood at 59.2 million in December, an increase of 877,000 more than they had in June.

.....d. CCDH’s ongoing tracking shows that the 20 anti-vaxxers with the largest followings account for over two-thirds of this total cross-platform following of 59.2 million.

5. Analysis of anti-vaccine content posted to Facebook over 689,000 times in the last two months shows that up to 73 percent of that content originates with members of the Disinformation Dozen of leading online anti-vaxxers.

6. Facebook’s own internal analysis of vaccine hesitant content on its platform is likely to underestimate the influence of leading anti-vaxxers by failing to address the ultimate source of this content, and by the recorded failure of its algorithms to identify content concerning vaccines.

7. Analysis of over 120,000 anti-vaccine tweets collected in the last two months shows that up to 17 percent feature the Disinformation Dozen of leading online anti-vaxxers.

8. The most effective and efficient way to stop the dissemination of harmful information is to deplatform the most highly visible repeat offenders, who we term the Disinformation Dozen. This should also include the organisations these individuals control or fund, as well as any backup accounts they have established to evade removal.

9. Platforms should establish a clear threshold for enforcement action, such as two strikes, after which restrictions are applied to accounts short of deplaforming them.

10. Users should be presented with warning screens when attempting to follow links to sites known to host vaccine misinformation, and users exposed to posts containing misinformation should be shown effective corrections.

11. Facebook should not allow private and secret anti-vaccine Groups where dangerous anti-vaccine disinformation can be spread with impunity.

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For instance;

1 Joseph Mercola Facebook: Active Twitter: Active Instagram: Active Joseph Mercola is a successful anti-vaccine entrepreneur, peddling dietary supplements and false cures as alternatives to vaccines. Mercola’s combined personal social media accounts have around 3.6 million followers

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There is $$$ to be made.

Nobody likes censorship. But with 615,000 people dead from COVID, countless more with lifelong debilitating damage to their lungs and a growing list of other bodily processes, there has gotta be a limit.

"The highly contagious delta variant is responsible for an estimated 83 percent of COVID-19 cases across the United States."

Short of dying.

"several states that are reporting the highest number of new infections are also seeing vaccination rates higher than the nation's average. Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Missouri and Nevada were the states officials said have seen the increase."

U.S. States With High COVID Cases Seeing Vaccination Rate Increase: WH

"The fourth surge is real, and the numbers are quite frightening at the moment," Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said.

www.newsweek.com

Do you gotta be hit upside the head with a board to figure out the difference between fantasy and reality?

Are you an agent of the state?

 

[MisterBeale]

The Disinformation Dozen are responsible for up to 65% of antivaccine content

https://252f2edd-1c8b-49f5-9bb2-cb57bb47e4ba.filesusr.com/ugd/f4d9b9_b7cedc0553604720b7137f8663366ee5.pdf

Executive Summary

1. The Disinformation Dozen are twelve anti-vaxxers who play leading roles in spreading digital misinformation about Covid vaccines. They were selected because they have large numbers of followers, produce high volumes of anti-vaccine content or have seen rapid growth of their social media accounts in the last two months.

2. Analysis of a sample of anti-vaccine content that was shared or posted on Facebook and Twitter a total of 812,000 times between 1 February and 16 March 2021 shows that 65 percent of anti-
vaccine content is attributable to the Disinformation Dozen.

3. Despite repeatedly violating Facebook, Instagram and Twitter’s terms of service agreements, nine of the Disinformation Dozen remain on all three platforms, while just three have been comprehensively removed from just one platform.

4. This is the product of a series of failures from social media platforms:

.....a. Research conducted by CCDH last year has shown that platforms fail to act on 95 percent of the Covid and vaccine misinformation reported to them.

.....b. CCDH’s recent report, Malgorithm, uncovered evidence that Instagram’s algorithm actively recommends similar misinformation.

.....c. Tracking of 425 anti-vaccine accounts by CCDH shows that their total following across platforms now stood at 59.2 million in December, an increase of 877,000 more than they had in June.

.....d. CCDH’s ongoing tracking shows that the 20 anti-vaxxers with the largest followings account for over two-thirds of this total cross-platform following of 59.2 million.

5. Analysis of anti-vaccine content posted to Facebook over 689,000 times in the last two months shows that up to 73 percent of that content originates with members of the Disinformation Dozen of leading online anti-vaxxers.

6. Facebook’s own internal analysis of vaccine hesitant content on its platform is likely to underestimate the influence of leading anti-vaxxers by failing to address the ultimate source of this content, and by the recorded failure of its algorithms to identify content concerning vaccines.

7. Analysis of over 120,000 anti-vaccine tweets collected in the last two months shows that up to 17 percent feature the Disinformation Dozen of leading online anti-vaxxers.

8. The most effective and efficient way to stop the dissemination of harmful information is to deplatform the most highly visible repeat offenders, who we term the Disinformation Dozen. This should also include the organisations these individuals control or fund, as well as any backup accounts they have established to evade removal.

9. Platforms should establish a clear threshold for enforcement action, such as two strikes, after which restrictions are applied to accounts short of deplaforming them.

10. Users should be presented with warning screens when attempting to follow links to sites known to host vaccine misinformation, and users exposed to posts containing misinformation should be shown effective corrections.

11. Facebook should not allow private and secret anti-vaccine Groups where dangerous anti-vaccine disinformation can be spread with impunity.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
For instance;

1 Joseph Mercola Facebook: Active Twitter: Active Instagram: Active Joseph Mercola is a successful anti-vaccine entrepreneur, peddling dietary supplements and false cures as alternatives to vaccines. Mercola’s combined personal social media accounts have around 3.6 million followers

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There is $$$ to be made.

Nobody likes censorship. But with 615,000 people dead from COVID, countless more with lifelong debilitating damage to their lungs and a growing list of other bodily processes, there has gotta be a limit.

"The highly contagious delta variant is responsible for an estimated 83 percent of COVID-19 cases across the United States."

Short of dying.

"several states that are reporting the highest number of new infections are also seeing vaccination rates higher than the nation's average. Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Missouri and Nevada were the states officials said have seen the increase."

U.S. States With High COVID Cases Seeing Vaccination Rate Increase: WH

"The fourth surge is real, and the numbers are quite frightening at the moment," Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said.

www.newsweek.com

Do you gotta be hit upside the head with a board to figure out the difference between fantasy and reality?

Meet The REAL Disinformation Dozen​

Corbett ReportJul 25, 2021, 10:08:50 AM

Meet The REAL Disinformation Dozen | Minds

by James Corbettcorbettreport.comJuly 24, 2021Have you heard of "The Disinformation Dozen" yet? They're the twelve people that, according to...

www.minds.com

". . . According to the CCDH's super serious and rigorously researched report on the subject, it is in fact this small group of dedicated disinformationists who have single-handedly warped the minds of millions of poor, innocent social media users. These loathsome liars and avid anti-science activists are, the CCDH informs us, the true source of the public's misgivings about the jab.

Don't trust your lying eyes! Believe our good old friends at the mysterious CCDH (who studiously avoid the question of where they get their own fund in the "About" section of their website) when they tell you that it's this handful of cranks and charlatans who are creating hordes of tinfoil anti-vaxxers with their cunningly crafted tweets and their perfectly persuasive Instagram posts.

So, who are these online gurus, exactly? Who are the social media Svengalis leading the online hordes off of the digital cliffs? Who should we as a society be living in mortal fear of? Why, THESE people, of course!

Are you scared yet? No? Well, how about if we distort the image so they look a little more unhinged?

How about now? Are you suitably terrified?

Yeah, I thought not. Because this is transparent nonsense, of course. It's a garbage report written by an "advocacy" group whose sole purpose is to eliminate "wrongthink" from the internet and it should not be taken seriously. Sadly, though, as you'll see in the conclusion to this article, there are people taking it seriously. At the very least, the report is serving its intended purpose of making it seem like there's some sort of grassroots support behind a campaign for mass government censorship online.

But if they can do it, so can we!. . . "

<snip, (information provided on all in article.)>

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[SassyIrishLass]

The vax was a miracle!!!!!

Not

CNBC: CDC study shows 74% of people infected in Massachusetts Covid outbreak were fully vaccinated.

CDC study shows 74% of people infected in Massachusetts Covid outbreak were fully vaccinated

The CDC data published Friday was based on 469 cases of Covid associated with multiple summer events and large public gatherings in July in Massachusetts.

www.cnbc.com

 

[Doc7505]

And three or four of them are on this forum ----

Name them....

 

[Ben Thomson]

In the news media Tucker Carlson is one of them. He constantly spreads the anti-vaccine message on his show but will not answer if you ask him if got vaccinated. My guess...he's vaccinated but would look absolutely hypocritical to his viewers if that fact came out so he refuses to give an answer. Actually everybody at Fox News is probably vaccinated due to the home office's policy on vaccinations...Fox Corp. implementing its own version of a vaccine passport

 

[Whodatsaywhodat.]

The Disinformation Dozen are responsible for up to 65% of antivaccine content

https://252f2edd-1c8b-49f5-9bb2-cb57bb47e4ba.filesusr.com/ugd/f4d9b9_b7cedc0553604720b7137f8663366ee5.pdf

Executive Summary

1. The Disinformation Dozen are twelve anti-vaxxers who play leading roles in spreading digital misinformation about Covid vaccines. They were selected because they have large numbers of followers, produce high volumes of anti-vaccine content or have seen rapid growth of their social media accounts in the last two months.

2. Analysis of a sample of anti-vaccine content that was shared or posted on Facebook and Twitter a total of 812,000 times between 1 February and 16 March 2021 shows that 65 percent of anti-
vaccine content is attributable to the Disinformation Dozen.

3. Despite repeatedly violating Facebook, Instagram and Twitter’s terms of service agreements, nine of the Disinformation Dozen remain on all three platforms, while just three have been comprehensively removed from just one platform.

4. This is the product of a series of failures from social media platforms:

.....a. Research conducted by CCDH last year has shown that platforms fail to act on 95 percent of the Covid and vaccine misinformation reported to them.

.....b. CCDH’s recent report, Malgorithm, uncovered evidence that Instagram’s algorithm actively recommends similar misinformation.

.....c. Tracking of 425 anti-vaccine accounts by CCDH shows that their total following across platforms now stood at 59.2 million in December, an increase of 877,000 more than they had in June.

.....d. CCDH’s ongoing tracking shows that the 20 anti-vaxxers with the largest followings account for over two-thirds of this total cross-platform following of 59.2 million.

5. Analysis of anti-vaccine content posted to Facebook over 689,000 times in the last two months shows that up to 73 percent of that content originates with members of the Disinformation Dozen of leading online anti-vaxxers.

6. Facebook’s own internal analysis of vaccine hesitant content on its platform is likely to underestimate the influence of leading anti-vaxxers by failing to address the ultimate source of this content, and by the recorded failure of its algorithms to identify content concerning vaccines.

7. Analysis of over 120,000 anti-vaccine tweets collected in the last two months shows that up to 17 percent feature the Disinformation Dozen of leading online anti-vaxxers.

8. The most effective and efficient way to stop the dissemination of harmful information is to deplatform the most highly visible repeat offenders, who we term the Disinformation Dozen. This should also include the organisations these individuals control or fund, as well as any backup accounts they have established to evade removal.

9. Platforms should establish a clear threshold for enforcement action, such as two strikes, after which restrictions are applied to accounts short of deplaforming them.

10. Users should be presented with warning screens when attempting to follow links to sites known to host vaccine misinformation, and users exposed to posts containing misinformation should be shown effective corrections.

11. Facebook should not allow private and secret anti-vaccine Groups where dangerous anti-vaccine disinformation can be spread with impunity.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
For instance;

1 Joseph Mercola Facebook: Active Twitter: Active Instagram: Active Joseph Mercola is a successful anti-vaccine entrepreneur, peddling dietary supplements and false cures as alternatives to vaccines. Mercola’s combined personal social media accounts have around 3.6 million followers

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There is $$$ to be made.

Nobody likes censorship. But with 615,000 people dead from COVID, countless more with lifelong debilitating damage to their lungs and a growing list of other bodily processes, there has gotta be a limit.

"The highly contagious delta variant is responsible for an estimated 83 percent of COVID-19 cases across the United States."

Short of dying.

"several states that are reporting the highest number of new infections are also seeing vaccination rates higher than the nation's average. Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Missouri and Nevada were the states officials said have seen the increase."

U.S. States With High COVID Cases Seeing Vaccination Rate Increase: WH

"The fourth surge is real, and the numbers are quite frightening at the moment," Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said.

www.newsweek.com

Do you gotta be hit upside the head with a board to figure out the difference between fantasy and reality?

Democrats have Fauci, he is the best at it .... so?

 

[Doc7505]

In the news media Tucker Carlson is one of them. He constantly spreads the anti-vaccine message on his show but will not answer if you ask him if got vaccinated. My guess...he's vaccinated but would look absolutely hypocritical to his viewers if that fact came out so he refuses to give an answer. Actually everybody at Fox News is probably vaccinated due to the home office's policy on vaccinations...Fox Corp. implementing its own version of a vaccine passport

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Is that so? Then explain the following:

'Profound Benefits': Tucker Carlson Says Vaccine 'Lowers' COVID Severity and Hospitalizations

 

[Doc7505]

~~~~~~
Is that so? Then explain the following:

'Profound Benefits': Tucker Carlson Says Vaccine 'Lowers' COVID Severity and Hospitalizations

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

In the news media Tucker Carlson is one of them. He constantly spreads the anti-vaccine message on his show but will not answer if you ask him if got vaccinated. My guess...he's vaccinated but would look absolutely hypocritical to his viewers if that fact came out so he refuses to give an answer. Actually everybody at Fox News is probably vaccinated due to the home office's policy on vaccinations...Fox Corp. implementing its own version of a vaccine passport

What anti-vaccine message?
Anti-vaccine is another democrat contrivance propagated to demonize another fantasy group that democrats marginalize just because they don’t acquiesce to democrat Marxism.

 

[Ben Thomson]

Well what about this then..How Tucker Carlson has used his Fox News show to push anti-vaccine misinformation

 

[DrLove]

Yep, I saw this a couple months ago. There is an table reserved in the hottest restaurant in hell for the Disinformation Dozen who are responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands.

Hope they don't sleep at night.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Yep, I saw this a couple months ago. There is an table reserved in the hottest restaurant in hell for the Disinformation Dozen who are responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands.

Hope they don't sleep at night.

Hmm?

CNBC: CDC study shows 74% of people infected in Massachusetts Covid outbreak were fully vaccinated.

CDC study shows 74% of people infected in Massachusetts Covid outbreak were fully vaccinated

The CDC data published Friday was based on 469 cases of Covid associated with multiple summer events and large public gatherings in July in Massachusetts.

www.cnbc.com

 

[Ben Thomson]

What anti-vaccine message?
Anti-vaccine is another democrat contrivance propagated to demonize another fantasy group that democrats marginalize just because they don’t acquiesce to democrat Marxism.

...

What anti-vaccine message?
Anti-vaccine is another democrat contrivance propagated to demonize another fantasy group that democrats marginalize just because they don’t acquiesce to democrat Marxism.

Hmm?

CNBC: CDC study shows 74% of people infected in Massachusetts Covid outbreak were fully vaccinated.

CDC study shows 74% of people infected in Massachusetts Covid outbreak were fully vaccinated

The CDC data published Friday was based on 469 cases of Covid associated with multiple summer events and large public gatherings in July in Massachusetts.

www.cnbc.com

Did they contact COVID or the Delta variant? The vaccines were targeting COVID, not any mutant variant, yet those who were vaccinated are not being hospitalized at the high rate the un-vaccinated are..

 

[Sinajuavi]

Are you an agent of the state?

You would ask that of a journalist. Or of a scientist.

Anti-Press, anti-science... what ideology would correlate with those 2 traits? Nazism, for one.

 

[Sinajuavi]

What anti-vaccine message?
Anti-vaccine is another democrat contrivance propagated to demonize another fantasy group that democrats marginalize just because they don’t acquiesce to democrat Marxism.

Notice the actual word(s)... ANTI, against, VACCINE, scientific preventative of viral infection

Vaccines stop the spread of viruses. While a vaccinated person is capable of still spreading COVID, this is of shorter duration and lower intensity. Vaccines work. Note where the explosions of cases (and deaths) are now occurring. Springfield, Missouri. Non-vaccinated Qtips.

 

[Doc7505]

Well what about this then..How Tucker Carlson has used his Fox News show to push anti-vaccine misinformation

Hahaha..... Your source www.Mediamatters.org

These media sources are moderately to strongly biased toward liberal causes through story selection and/or political affiliation. They may utilize strong loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes), publish misleading reports, and omit information that may damage liberal causes. Some sources in this category may be untrustworthy.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

...



Did they contact COVID or the Delta variant? The vaccines were targeting COVID, not any mutant variant, yet those who were vaccinated are not being hospitalized at the high rate the un-vaccinated are..

Gonna sign up for never ending jabs?

You're probably that stupid

 

[RodISHI]

Moderna got a contract with DOD worth just a little under a trillion to make wonderful covid vaccines. Now Moderna has not came out and directly said that their jab does not have graphene oxide in them but by another name its really just basically the same shit. Is that the kind of disinformation we are talking about here?