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Surgeon general demands tech companies hand over data on COVID-19 ‘misinformation’
Alpha News ^ | 03/03/2022 | Ailan Evans

Posted on 03/04/2022 12:27:25 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski

Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy sent a formal request for information Thursday to major tech companies demanding data on “misinformation” related to the COVID-19 vaccine and the virus itself, The New York Times reported.

The request demanded the companies provide data on “exactly how many users saw or may have been exposed to instances of Covid-19 misinformation,” as well as the particular demographics most affected by misleading information, according to the NYT. Murthy also reportedly demanded data on the sources of COVID-19 misinformation, particularly related to discredited treatments for the virus.

“Technology companies now have the opportunity to be open and transparent with the American people about the misinformation on their platforms,” Murthy told the NYT. “This is about protecting the nation’s health.”

It’s unclear which companies received the notice; the Department of Health and Human Services did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.

The move follows a “misinformation advisory” released by the Office of the Surgeon General in July 2021 alleging that “product features built into technology platforms have contributed to the spread of misinformation...”

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1 posted on 03/04/2022 12:27:25 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Not your job, Cupcake.


2 posted on 03/04/2022 12:28:36 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong [FJB])
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Misinformation = Truth


3 posted on 03/04/2022 12:29:50 PM PST by bray (The Vax is fake and deadly)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Deport Murthy

Third World Thug


4 posted on 03/04/2022 12:30:47 PM PST by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

I need to be reported. I have been exposed to vast amounts of CCPvirus misinformation. These include but are not limited to: CDC, Fauci, Pfizer, Resident Brandon, NYT, WaPo, Lacent, JAMA, FDA, PMSNBC and all other alphabets.


5 posted on 03/04/2022 12:30:58 PM PST by rigelkentaurus
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To: Jan_Sobieski

It looks like they are doing a more entusiastic job at contact tracing and quarantining virus “misinformation” than they did with the virus itself.


6 posted on 03/04/2022 12:31:17 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Dictatorship: now available in maple flavor.)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

FY Murth.


7 posted on 03/04/2022 12:31:39 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

And we’re expected to believe what these manky globalists are saying about Russia/Ukraine?

Certainly, the people of Ukraine are suffering, but I blame, first and foremost, the rampant corruption of the US Establishment.


8 posted on 03/04/2022 12:31:54 PM PST by Westbrook
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To: Jan_Sobieski

This November-aware government has chosen its scapegoats and it won’t be anyone in the Biden criminal administration.


9 posted on 03/04/2022 12:32:45 PM PST by Gaffer
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To: KarlInOhio

(missed my second half) Maybe they’ll build a firewall at the border to keep misinformation from sneaking across by the millions.


10 posted on 03/04/2022 12:33:45 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Dictatorship: now available in maple flavor.)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

[[“exactly how many users saw or may have been exposed to instances of Covid-19 misinformation,”]]

Millions got misinformation going to the CDC and WHO websites, and also going to medical sites that pushed the dangerous vaccines and espoused wearing useless masks-


11 posted on 03/04/2022 12:33:57 PM PST by Bob434
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Exactly!


12 posted on 03/04/2022 12:34:03 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: Bob434

Yep!


13 posted on 03/04/2022 12:35:04 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Yesterday’s lies are today’s gold standard truths.

Who knows what the “truth” will be tomorrow?

Follow the science....medical or political?


14 posted on 03/04/2022 12:37:17 PM PST by READINABLUESTATE ( ‘When tyranny becomes law, resistance becomes duty.’)
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To: Westbrook

“Certainly, the people of Ukraine are suffering, but I blame, first and foremost, the rampant corruption of the US Establishment.”

How could you? Brandon’s approval is at 47%. I asked this question on the post about Brandon’s approval. Are they telling the truth about Brandon and lieing about Russia? Or are they lieing about both? Which is it?


15 posted on 03/04/2022 12:37:32 PM PST by chuckb87
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To: Bob434

Yep....who’ll report those entities and their foot soldiers?


16 posted on 03/04/2022 12:37:52 PM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Good luck with that you useless pointless nobody. Why this position is at cabinet level has always confused me. And why they wear a uniform is just as confounding.


17 posted on 03/04/2022 12:38:29 PM PST by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021. )
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Let him demand in one hand and crap in the other......................


18 posted on 03/04/2022 12:39:02 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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Don't trouble yourself thinking, Comrade...


19 posted on 03/04/2022 12:39:02 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (If truckers quit their jobs, society would collapse. If politicians quit their jobs...HALLELUJAH!)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

No better than Putin’s Russia.


20 posted on 03/04/2022 12:39:36 PM PST by Irenic
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