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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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To: digger48

Fauci
Zuckerberg
Dorsey
Bezos
Sulzberer
Zucker
Murdoch

The list is in the hundreds
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But Gates is up there. The CDC is a private corp and has a Foundation which accepts donations, and Gates is their largest donor (George Soros is a donor too, along with PFizer etc.)

The World Health Organization is also grateful to Gates, they treat him like a god.

And the NIH has entwined it’s programs with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for over 10 years. The NIH has a Foundation that accepts donations but I didn’t find a list of donors.

These don’t function as government agencies - they work for our enemies and our enemies use tax payer funds to defeat us.


21 posted on 07/17/2021 6:11:14 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: ransomnote

12 is not too difficult to reach:

Fauxcy

BiXiden

CNN

ZuckerTurd

CDC

WHO

CCP

Pelousy

Schmuckie

Cuomo

Whitless

Twosome


22 posted on 07/17/2021 6:11:45 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
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To: BenLurkin

We are rapidly approaching that point. We are way past “if” or “might happen.”


23 posted on 07/17/2021 6:12:34 PM PDT by arthurus (covfefe!?)
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To: ransomnote

The shots Trump authorized, paid for, took credit for, and had. Those are the bioweapons. I guess that makes Donald Trump a terrorist? Or an idiot? Help me if I’m following the logic incorrectly.


24 posted on 07/17/2021 6:13:29 PM PDT by babble-on
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To: ransomnote

” though the vaccines have been deemed safe and effective by the US government and its regulatory agencies.”

.

VAERS COVID Vaccine Data
(Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System, USA)
463,456 Reports
Through July 9, 2021

463,456 Reports
Through July 9, 2021

10,991 DEATHS

30,781 HOSPITALIZATIONS

59,402 URGENT CARE

82,535 OFFICE VISITS

2,487 ANAPHYLAXIS

2,885 BELL’S PALSY

1,073 Miscarriages

3,906 Heart Attacks

2,466 Myocarditis/Pericarditis

9,274 Disabled

2,552 Thrombocytopenia / Low Platelet

8,832 Life Threatening

19,814 Severe Allergic Reaction

5,422 Tinnitus

https://www.openvaers.com/covid-da.


25 posted on 07/17/2021 6:14:35 PM PDT by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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SecondOpinion on Twitter: "Lockdowns don't work? They will lock down harder! Masks don't work? They want you to wear more masks! Vaccines don't work? They want you to take more shots! Schools are not safe enough? They will tyrannize your children with more & more madness! When is your pain limit reached?" / Twitter

26 posted on 07/17/2021 6:15:31 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: ransomnote
They're privately funded, but don't say by whom.

(Gates? Soros? The Chicoms?)

They consider the concept the COVID-19 is a Chinese bioweapon to be "disinformation."

Get this (the horror! the horror!).

Their website says "The anti-vaxx industry earns at least $36 million annually by profiting at the expense of public health."

"This anti-vaxx industry boasts annual revenue of at least $36 million and employs 266 people."

Get that? An *INDUSTRY*. With 266 whole employees.

Compare that to, say...the # of employees at Moderna, or Pfizer, or Astra-Zeneca.

Remember, SJWs *always* project.

Recall that Moderna went from being $1.74 billion in debt a year ago, to clearing billions this year.

And that, over what they admitted in their own SEC filing, was an experimental gene therapy.

And the openly have online petitions calling on Faecesbook and Instagrime to censor people they disagree with.

These are THEIR examples of misinformation and online "hate":

Claims about the safety or serious side effects of COVID-19 vaccines, including:

Claims that COVID-19 vaccines kill or seriously harm people, which we define as leading to any of the following harmful side effects:

Death

Amyotropic Lateral Sclerosis(ALS)

Multiple sclerosis

COVID-19 or a new COVID-19 strain

Autism

Miscarriages

Infertility or Sterilization

Altering DNA

Blood clots (except in relation to specific vaccines for which public health authorities have found possible links or are officially investigating such reports)

Other side-effects which are incredulous or irrational, such as taking the vaccine turns you into a monkey

= = = = = = =

The older I get the more I realize that "misinformation" is more than likely "information they hope you never find out about".— Rachel, Spirited Sparrow (@SpiritedSparr0w) July 1, 2021

This is a two-pronged attack. 1) Use irrational fear of COVID to push the idea that censorship is OK. And that it’s OK for the government to order private companies to censor FOR them. The excuse is “misinformation” about COVID (OMG we’re all gonna DIE!) 2) Once censorship is established, use it to block news about election fraud, and to decry all Trump voters, then all whites/Christians/whoever as “Dangerous Extremists Who Hate”™ and cover up government atrocities...or atrocities by others, approved by the government, against them.

27 posted on 07/17/2021 6:15:58 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: babble-on

The shots Trump authorized, paid for, took credit for, and had. Those are the bioweapons. I guess that makes Donald Trump a terrorist? Or an idiot? Help me if I’m following the logic incorrectly.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
There’s no helping an anti-Trumper like you because your misdirection is intentional.


28 posted on 07/17/2021 6:16:15 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: TLI

Link:

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29 posted on 07/17/2021 6:16:43 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: ransomnote

If they know it’s just 12 people then they know who these 12 are. Deal with them and let my people go!


30 posted on 07/17/2021 6:16:44 PM PDT by noexcuses
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To: digger48

Do you mean Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr.?


31 posted on 07/17/2021 6:17:39 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: BenLurkin

Yeah, it did that the last time someone posted the link here.

;-)

Check it later, it will work.

.


32 posted on 07/17/2021 6:20:36 PM PDT by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: ransomnote

For what it’s worth...
From the Center for Countering Digital Hate:

Joseph Mercola
Andrew Wakefield
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Del Bigtree
Larry Cook
Ty and Charlene Bollinger
Sherri Tenpenny
Mike Adams
Rashid Buttar
Barbara Loe Fisher
Sayer Ji
Kelly Brogan


33 posted on 07/17/2021 6:21:26 PM PDT by TChad (The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
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To: ransomnote

Only 12?

So what. We all remember when Hannity and Glenn Beck were the only ones telling us what Soros, the attendees at Devos and our now known as the Deep State was planning.But only 12? BS.

The fact that there were not more did not make it less true.

How about the 1,000 layers and 10,000 doctors in Europe (reported) who are planning to sue?


34 posted on 07/17/2021 6:22:29 PM PDT by old curmudgeon
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To: ransomnote

exactly - what you sai people took the shots in good faith before the dangers were known...why is msm trying to censor the possible dangers..?


35 posted on 07/17/2021 6:23:22 PM PDT by rolling_stone (usa nice experiment ruined by "progressives'" )
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To: ransomnote

Majority of Covid misinformation ACTUALLY came from a cabal of ChiComs, statist pols, socialist pols, the ever lying MSM and various UNELECTED Medical Officers of Health and their underlings, who savored their power to control the masses.

There, corrected.

A pox on all their houses!


36 posted on 07/17/2021 6:23:26 PM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (Ceterum autem censeo Justinius True-dope-us esse delendam)
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Excerpt from "The Disinformation Dozen", written by The Center for Countering Digital Hate.

"Living in full view of the public on the internet are a small group of individuals who do not have relevant medical expertise and have their own pockets to line, who are abusing social media platforms to misrepresent the threat of Covid and spread misinformation about the safety of vaccines. "

I wondered why they didn't include Dr. Yeadon, former Chief Science Officer for Pfizer's Allergy and Respiratory Diseases division, and Dr. McCullough. Both men have extensive experience which makes them highly qualified to speak to this issue, the men are vehemently against the administration of these 'vaccines' and therefore are on the same side as the Ministry of Truth's so called 'dirty dozen', but the Ministry pretends it doesn't see them, doesn't know they exist.

37 posted on 07/17/2021 6:23:41 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: BenLurkin

404
Category not found

Home Page


38 posted on 07/17/2021 6:27:40 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (If I wanted to live in China, Cuba, Canada or ?????! I would move there! Covid 19 über alles!!!)
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To: BenLurkin
 
 
Yes, this is why this is dangerous. Today it's about Covid, tomorrow it'll be about something else. Mission creep is baked in to that cake.
 
 

39 posted on 07/17/2021 6:34:54 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: ransomnote

I’m sick and tired of someone else, some unelected, unaccountable group deciding what I can and cannot see on the Internet. Who the hell is funding them. It could be the drug companies. Their website is not transparent and doesn’t disclose that info. They could have a major conflict of interest.

Remember just a few months ago it was *forbidden* to discuss the lab leak hypothesis. It was conspiracy thinking. Disinformation. Now it’s accepted as a high possibility.

With groups like this shutting off anything but the official position, the world sinks further into real fascism. The merger of an all powerful state and all powerful mega corporations accountable to no one. No alternatives allowed. No dissent. What a horrible world.


40 posted on 07/17/2021 6:37:34 PM PDT by Flick Lives (“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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