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Majority of Covid misinformation came from 12 people, report finds
theguardian.com ^ | 7/17/21 | Erum Salam

Posted on 07/17/2021 5:51:34 PM PDT by ransomnote

The vast majority of Covid-19 anti-vaccine misinformation and conspiracy theories originated from just 12 people, a report by the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) cited by the White House this week found.

CCDH, a UK/US non-profit and non-governmental organization, found in March that these 12 online personalities they dubbed the “disinformation dozen” have a combined following of 59 million people across multiple social media platforms, with Facebook having the largest impact. CCDH analyzed 812,000 Facebook posts and tweets and found 65% came from the disinformation dozen. Vivek Murthy, US surgeon general, and Joe Biden focused on misinformation around vaccines this week as a driving force of the virus spreading.

On Facebook alone, the dozen are responsible for 73% of all anti-vaccine content, though the vaccines have been deemed safe and effective by the US government and its regulatory agencies. And 95% of the Covid misinformation reported on these platforms were not removed.

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This is Orwell's 'Ministry of Truth' and they have decided that those who disagree with them are pushing 'HATE', a product the ministry has patented and has sole rights to distributed.

This is how the US/UK Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) describes itself in the embedded document:

1 posted on 07/17/2021 5:51:34 PM PDT by ransomnote
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This is Orwell's 'Ministry of Truth' and they have decided that those who disagree with them are pushing 'HATE', a product the ministry has patented and has sole rights to distribut.

Note how the US/UK Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) describes itself in the embedded document (hint: the public is stupid and easily manipulated by haters, so the CCDH is here to 'help'):


The Center for Countering Digital Hate is a not-for-profit NGO that seeks to disrupt the architecture of online hate and misinformation.

Digital technology has changed forever the way we communicate, build relationships, share knowledge, set social standards, and negotiate and assert our society's values.

Digital spaces have been colonised and their unique dynamics exploited by fringe movements that instrumentalise hate and misinformation. These movements are opportunistic, agile and confident in exerting influence and persuading people.

Over time these actors, advocating diverse causes - from anti-feminism to ethnic nationalism to denial of scientific consensus - have formed a Digital Counter Enlightenment. Their trolling, disinformation and skilled advocacy of their causes has resocialised the offline world for the worse.

The Center's work combines both analysis and active disruption of these networks. CCDH's solutions seek to increase the economic, political and social costs of all parts of the infrastructure - the actors, systems and culture - that support, and often profit from hate and misinformation.

2 posted on 07/17/2021 5:52:47 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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Do they list the little effer Fauci?


3 posted on 07/17/2021 5:53:10 PM PDT by Aria
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If I fess up, does that mean covid prison?


4 posted on 07/17/2021 5:53:13 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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Ok, so Fauci, Gates, and 10 others...


5 posted on 07/17/2021 5:54:57 PM PDT by meyer (I swear to protect and defend the Constitution against ALL enemies, foreign and domestic!)
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The "Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH)". You've got to be kidding me. This is probably a two-man and a fax machine group just like Rush used to call the SPLC.

Who voted these bastards the arbiters of truth? None of us did. Now we need a Foundation for Countering the Hate-Spewing CDDH.

6 posted on 07/17/2021 5:55:32 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Criminal democrats kill babies, folks. Do you think anything else is a problem for them?” ~ joma89)
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Fauci
Zuckerberg
Dorsey
Bezos
Sulzberer
Zucker
Murdoch

The list is in the hundreds


7 posted on 07/17/2021 5:56:05 PM PDT by digger48
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Let government get away with blocking “covid misinformation” and it will never hesitate to block any opinions contrary to the Party line.


8 posted on 07/17/2021 5:56:25 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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Naming names. A list of the 12.


9 posted on 07/17/2021 5:56:44 PM PDT by CJ Wolf ( what is scarier than offensive words? Not being able to say them...God wins. Trump always wins. . )
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I don’t remember appointing this no to anything, they need to stfu


10 posted on 07/17/2021 5:57:33 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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Oh, good, they’ve named them.
Now they can hire lawyers and sue this administration for deprivation of their 1st Amendment rights.


11 posted on 07/17/2021 5:58:54 PM PDT by TigersEye (Who shot Ashli Babbitt?)
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Guardian alert.
Guardian alert.
This is a place where face masks (really good ones) lessen one’s chance of being infected.


12 posted on 07/17/2021 6:00:13 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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And then there's this...

Government won't publish records of meetings between Dido Harding and Covid firms EXCLUSIVE The Government says the former head of the £37 billion programme won't be required to make her diary public

Betcha the rag won't have a thing to say about that...

13 posted on 07/17/2021 6:00:38 PM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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All certifiable.


14 posted on 07/17/2021 6:02:45 PM PDT by MarMema
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bookmarking for later download


15 posted on 07/17/2021 6:03:48 PM PDT by jimjohn (...like Donkey Kong.)
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I cannot wait to see who all chimes in, in support of the Guardian…


16 posted on 07/17/2021 6:05:01 PM PDT by Just mythoughts (Psalm 2. Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?)
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Tucker Carlson had his shots
Laura Ingraham had her shots
Trump had his shots

Why are they telling you not to get your shots? Because they like and respect you?


17 posted on 07/17/2021 6:05:27 PM PDT by babble-on
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Why are they telling you not to get your shots? Because they like and respect you?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
They had the shots before they found out that they were bioweapons.


18 posted on 07/17/2021 6:06:22 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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“covid misinformation” morphs into “anti-vaccine misinformation” in the space between the headline and opening sentence!

reading the headline, I was preparing my list -

Fauci
Neil Ferguson
Marc Lipsitch/Harvard
CCP
WHO
Gates
Birx
FakeNewsMSM
ETC ETC


19 posted on 07/17/2021 6:09:32 PM PDT by MAGAthon
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Does that dozen include the COVID researchers and COVID experienced doctors that have had so much to say about the untested gene therapy experiment? Biden had better have them all arrested and put on televised trial for murder of all those people who didn’t get put on ventilators but died of something after testing positive or guessing positive. That is sarcasm today but next month?


20 posted on 07/17/2021 6:10:16 PM PDT by arthurus (covfefe!)
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