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How Facebook Hobbled Mark Zuckerberg’s Bid to Get America Vaccinated
The Wall Street Journal ^ | Sept. 17, 2021 | Sam Schechner, Jeff Horwitz and Emily Glazer

Posted on 09/17/2021 5:50:46 PM PDT by American Number 181269513

In mid-March, Mark Zuckerberg used his Facebook page to announce a goal that was both ambitious and personal. He wanted his company to use its formidable resources to push 50 million people toward Covid-19 vaccines.

In a post and a press release, the chief executive discussed Facebook Inc.’s initiatives to promote vaccines. He unveiled collaborations with global health organizations. And he touted that his company had “already connected more than 2 billion people to authoritative Covid-19 information.”

Inside Facebook, staffers were warning that Mr. Zuckerberg’s own platform, the globe-spanning powerhouse built on code he wrote 17 years ago, was compromising his effort.

For more than a month, Facebook researchers warned that comments on vaccine-related posts—often factual posts of the sort Facebook sought to promote—were filled with antivaccine rhetoric aimed at undermining their message, internal documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal show. The comments ranged from personal objections all the way to debunked falsehoods and conspiracy theories.

The wave of negative comments worried global health institutions, including the World Health Organization and Unicef, the documents say. One internal Facebook memo cited “anti-vaccine commenters that swarm their Pages.”

In the weeks before Mr. Zuckerberg made his announcement, another memo said initial testing concluded that roughly 41% of comments on English-language vaccine-related posts risked discouraging vaccinations. Users were seeing comments on vaccine-related posts 775 million times a day, the memo said, and Facebook researchers worried the large proportion of negative comments could influence perceptions of the vaccines’ safety.

Even authoritative sources of vaccine information were becoming “cesspools of anti-vaccine comments,” the authors wrote. “That’s a huge problem and we need to fix it,” they said.

(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: covid; emilyglazer; facebook; jeffhorwitz; markzuckerberg; mediawingofthednc; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; samschechner; wallstreetjournal; zuckerberg
The evil continues.
1 posted on 09/17/2021 5:50:46 PM PDT by American Number 181269513
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To: American Number 181269513

“That’s a huge problem and we need to fix it”

Fix that propaganda and sell your lies.


2 posted on 09/17/2021 5:53:17 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: American Number 181269513

The WSJ, be very suspicious.


3 posted on 09/17/2021 5:53:33 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: DAC21

It is all lies from word one.


4 posted on 09/17/2021 5:54:53 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: American Number 181269513
What the idiot billionaire can't fathom is that most folks had already talked to their doctors, their friends and family, researched on their own and had already made-up their minds whether to get the jab or not.

His pro-vaccine propaganda influenced very few.

FR's own FB page members have been countering his pro-vax garbage since the outset.

5 posted on 09/17/2021 5:59:53 PM PDT by PROCON (Our rights do not come from government, therefore they cannot take them away.)
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To: American Number 181269513

Scamdemic - bump for later....


6 posted on 09/17/2021 6:05:11 PM PDT by indthkr
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To: American Number 181269513

Haole Zuckerstein stole a Hawaiian island and drove all the native Hawaiians out.

He considers other human beings to be an insect pestilence.

One has to wonder why he wants to vaccinate the entire world with a vaccine that doesn’t vaccinate.


7 posted on 09/17/2021 6:06:37 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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To: American Number 181269513

“Mr. Zuckerberg’s own platform, the globe-spanning powerhouse built on code he wrote 17 years ago”

I thought DARPA wrote it as ‘Lifelog’.


8 posted on 09/17/2021 6:06:54 PM PDT by dljordan (Slouching towards Woketopia)
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To: American Number 181269513

People don’t listen to a gossip site’s authority???????????

When you know something for a fact based on something you can see right in front of you, and the Facebook Police tell you that you are wrong and spreading disinformation, then Facebook loses all credibility and lost it years ago.


9 posted on 09/17/2021 6:08:07 PM PDT by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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To: dljordan

“Mr. Zuckerberg’s own platform, the globe-spanning powerhouse built on code he wrote 17 years ago”

From Wikipedia:

“LifeLog aimed to compile a massive electronic database of every activity and relationship a person engages in. This was to include credit card purchases, web sites visited, the content of telephone calls and e-mails sent and received, scans of faxes and postal mail sent and received, instant messages sent and received, books and magazines read, television and radio selections, physical location recorded via wearable GPS sensors, biomedical data captured through wearable sensors. The high level goal of this data logging was to identify ‘preferences, plans, goals, and other markers of intentionality’.”

“The DARPA program was canceled on February 4th, 2004, after criticism from civil libertarians concerning the privacy implications of the system.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_LifeLog

2004+17=2021


10 posted on 09/17/2021 6:13:33 PM PDT by Brian Griffin ( )
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To: American Number 181269513

Why would you push for vaccines that don’t work as advertised (and for which there are no long term health studies) for a disease from which there is a 99% cure rate?


11 posted on 09/17/2021 6:16:55 PM PDT by grumpa
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To: American Number 181269513
built on code he wrote 17 years ago,

Built on code he stole years ago

12 posted on 09/17/2021 6:19:08 PM PDT by TheCipher (To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman. - Mark Twain)
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To: Brian Griffin

That program may have ended but betcha it was replaced with another doing the same thing.


13 posted on 09/17/2021 6:37:53 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: American Number 181269513

Big tech is scared spitless; recall the experience that news site had-

they asked for input about covid deaths and adverse effects, and got inundated with covid shot deaths and adverse effects.


14 posted on 09/17/2021 7:09:45 PM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57 returning after lurking since 2000) )
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To: American Number 181269513

C& guilty as charged.

Posted dozens of Ivermectin research papers, I-MASK protocols,success stories, and I*ermectin sources.

Zuch was powned.


15 posted on 09/17/2021 7:24:38 PM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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To: American Number 181269513

Never used it and never will.


16 posted on 09/17/2021 7:50:49 PM PDT by JerseyDvl (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Partisan Media Shills of the WSJ alert.

additional:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3995980/posts


17 posted on 09/17/2021 7:54:41 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: American Number 181269513

My fake book page calls masks FD’s or face diapers. And we
replace cupcakes for covid. There are more ways to get around the algorithms. We can exchange information freely and everyone understands the gist of the post. None have ever been taken down. You have to think like the communists.


18 posted on 09/18/2021 2:47:52 AM PDT by lucky american (Progressives are attac Iking our rights and y'all will sit there and take it.)
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