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The White House turned up the pressure on Silicon Valley to get a handle on vaccine misinformation Thursday, specifically singling out 12 people one group dubbed the "disinformation dozen," saying they were responsible for a great deal of misinformation about Covid-19.

"There's about 12 people who are producing 65% of anti-vaccine misinformation on social media platforms," White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Thursday.

That statistic is from the nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) which identified in a report published in March about a dozen people it said were super-spreaders of anti-vaccine misinformation.

The CCDH had at the time called on Facebook and Twitter to shut down all pages run by those people.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a prominent figure in the anti-vaccine movement, is among the people whom the CCDH said should be kicked off social media.

Kennedy's page on Facebook-owned Instagram was shut down earlier this year for sharing Covid-19 misinformation, Facebook said. However, Kennedy is still allowed on Facebook (FB) itself, and he has more than 300,000 followers on the platform.

Explaining why Kennedy was kicked off one of its platforms but not the other, a Facebook spokesperson told CNN Thursday, "We don't automatically disable accounts across our apps, because the accounts may post about different things on our different services."

At the time the CCDH's report was released in March, Kennedy told NPR that he had become more cautious on Facebook, which according to NPR he also accused of censorship. "I have to post, like, unicorns and kitty cat pictures on there," he said.

The CCDH said Friday that 35 social media accounts tied to the people it identified have now been shut down, losing them 5.8 million followers, but 62 accounts with a total of 8.4 million followers are still active.

CNN reported Thursday that meetings between the Biden administration and Facebook have grown "tense," according to a person familiar with the conversations.

The person pointed specifically to Kennedy's still-active Facebook account as an example of what some White House officials view as Facebook's inaction regarding Covid-19 misinformation.

A Facebook spokesperson told CNN Friday the company had shut down some pages and groups belonging to the dozen or so people identified by the CCDH but would not say what pages.

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The White House turned up the pressure on Silicon Valley to get a handle on vaccine misinformation Thursday, specifically singling out 12 people one group dubbed the "disinformation dozen," saying they were responsible for a great deal of misinformation about Covid-19.
"There's about 12 people who are producing 65% of anti-vaccine misinformation on social media platforms," White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Thursday.
That statistic is from the nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) which identified in a report published in March about a dozen people it said were super-spreaders of anti-vaccine misinformation.
The CCDH had at the time called on Facebook and Twitter to shut down all pages run by those people.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a prominent figure in the anti-vaccine movement, is among the people whom the CCDH said should be kicked off social media.

Kennedy's page on Facebook-owned Instagram was shut down earlier this year for sharing Covid-19 misinformation, Facebook said. However, Kennedy is still allowed on Facebook (FB) itself, and he has more than 300,000 followers on the platform.
Explaining why Kennedy was kicked off one of its platforms but not the other, a Facebook spokesperson told CNN Thursday, "We don't automatically disable accounts across our apps, because the accounts may post about different things on our different services."
At the time the CCDH's report was released in March, Kennedy told NPR that he had become more cautious on Facebook, which according to NPR he also accused of censorship. "I have to post, like, unicorns and kitty cat pictures on there," he said.
The CCDH said Friday that 35 social media accounts tied to the people it identified have now been shut down, losing them 5.8 million followers, but 62 accounts with a total of 8.4 million followers are still active.
CNN reported Thursday that meetings between the Biden administration and Facebook have grown "tense," according to a person familiar with the conversations.
The person pointed specifically to Kennedy's still-active Facebook account as an example of what some White House officials view as Facebook's inaction regarding Covid-19 misinformation.
A Facebook spokesperson told CNN Friday the company had shut down some pages and groups belonging to the dozen or so people identified by the CCDH but would not say what pages.

And the Facebook and Twitter Gestapo said, "Ja Fuhrer Biden. Wir werden tun, was du befiehlst".
Censorship is a tactic of people who are Scared.
Censorship is a tactic of Communists.
Censorship is a tactic of stifling dissent.
Censorship is a direct infringement on our 1st Amendment rights.



WE WILL NOT BE CENSORED!

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And the Facebook and Twitter Gestapo said, "Ja Fuhrer Biden. Wir werden tun, was du befiehlst".
Censorship is a tactic of people who are Scared.
Censorship is a tactic of Communists.
Censorship is a tactic of stifling dissent.
Censorship is a direct infringement on our 1st Amendment rights.



WE WILL NOT BE CENSORED!

Private companies are not beholden to the 1st amendment. They can allow or disallow anyone they want. Which includes right wing lies and hate.

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And the Facebook and Twitter Gestapo said, "Ja Fuhrer Biden. Wir werden tun, was du befiehlst".
Censorship is a tactic of people who are Scared.
Censorship is a tactic of Communists.
Censorship is a tactic of stifling dissent.
Censorship is a direct infringement on our 1st Amendment rights.



WE WILL NOT BE CENSORED!

When your plan is to overthrow the US Government YES U will

Way to stay on Topic

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The White House turned up the pressure on Silicon Valley to get a handle on vaccine misinformation Thursday, specifically singling out 12 people one group dubbed the "disinformation dozen," saying they were responsible for a great deal of misinformation about Covid-19.

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Covid-19 'is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated

Billy write this down

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Way to go Governor Dufus

Nearly 20 percent of the nation's new coronavirus infections are now happening in Florida alone, according to a White House official.

Cases are rising across the nation as a whole as the more transmissible delta variant spreads but are concentrated in areas with low vaccination rates.

"Just four states accounted for more than 40 percent of all cases in the past week, with 1 in 5 of all cases occurring in Florida alone," White House COVID-19 coordinator Jeff Zients told reporters during a briefing Friday.

"We will likely ... continue to experience an increase in COVID cases in the weeks ahead, with these cases concentrated in communities with lower vaccination rates," Zients said



Florida is seeing some of the highest coronavirus hospitalizations, new infections and deaths per capita in the country. The numbers bottomed out as vaccinations became available but recently have been climbing.

Currently, the state is reporting an average of 29 new infections for every 100,000 people per day - more than four times the national average.

The positivity rate is hovering around 10 percent, and according to federal data, the seven-day moving average is more than 5,600 cases a day.

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Vaccination rates vary around the country and in most states, Black and Hispanic people have received smaller shares of vaccinations compared with their shares of Covid-19 cases, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation report last week.

The concerns of Black and Indigenous people, along with other people of color (BIPOC) have over vaccines, and how they must be taken seriously.

BIPOC do not fare well in predominately White health care institutions. Racial health inequities are also par for the course.

Given the reality of Covid-19 and the growing threat of the Delta variant, BIPOC should perhaps weigh the health benefits of vaccines -- and see it as a way to stay out of the very hospitals and doctors' offices that so often fail them. Getting vaccinated against preventable diseases is one way to ensure that all people, especially BIPOC, avoid health care encounters in which implicit and explicit bias lead to worse health outcomes.

It doesn't help that many Republicans have been stoking vaccine skepticism and outright hostility. The Delta variant is already spreading rapidly across the country.

Many who choose to forgo the shot may claim they are making a personal decision.

But the continued spread of Covid-19 affects us all.

The truth is, the virus doesn't care about so-called individual liberties. It simply infects whatever host it can find, Republican or Democrat, young or old, disabled, immuno-compromised, and anti-vaxxers alike.

If anything, remaining unvaccinated by choice -- and not because of lack of access or contraindicated health conditions -- sounds more like shirking an individual responsibility than exercising an individual right.