White House turns up heat on Big Tech's Covid 'disinformation dozen'

[Jilly_in_VA]

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.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/16/tech/misinformation-covid-facebook-twitter-white-house/index.html
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Here is a link to the report listing all of them
https://252f2edd-1c8b-49f5-9bb2-cb57bb47e4ba.filesusr.com/ugd/f4d9b9_b7cedc0553604720b7137f8663366ee5.pdf

[nycbos]

1. Zuckerberg's wife is a doctor

Maybe someone could get her to speak out as a "member of the medical community"

[Bayard]

2. The only one I recognize is Robert Kennedy

I used to really respect his environmental actions. Very disappointing.

The Disinformation Dozen:

1. Joseph Mercola
2. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
3. Ty and Charlene Bollinger
4. Sherri Tenpenny
5. Rizza Islam
6. Rashid Buttar
7. Erin Elizabeth
8. Sayer Ji
9. Kelly Brogan
10. Christiane Northrup
11. Ben Tapper
12. Kevin Jenkins

[tanyev]

9. I used to like Christiane Northrup. Didn't realize she'd gone off the deep end.

She was an M.D. who focused on women’s health issues. She was always woo friendly, but seemed to place it in a fairly solid medical context. Don’t know what happened there. I just got rid of the three books of hers that I had on the shelf.

[Klaralven]

10. These are all conventional anti-vaxxers

There is another collection of vaccine conspiracy theorists that are further out to sea.

[BootinUp]

3. Good approach imho

[Hekate]

4. Good news. Thanks.

[Jilly_in_VA]

5. I am familiar with Mercola

He is a major quack. I had seen garbage from a couple of the others on Twitter, Erin Elizabeth and Sheri Tenpenny I think. I blocked them right quickly. Most of the rest I don't think I recognize. RFK Jr. probably has his dad on spin cycle. I think early drug use addled his brain or something.

[marybourg]

8. Bollinger is a well-known un-credentialed cancer quack.

[Duppers]

12. Yep, Mercola has been peddling ads online

for his vitamins, programs, & lectures for over 10 yrs. now. I think he got into dogs' health cures too but I think better ad blocks are helping because I'm not seeing them lately.

[roamer65]

6. Robert F Kennedy Sr would disown his son.

[abqtommy]

7. Why don't we just Lock. Them. All. Up. and throw away the key?

[Beringia]

11. Thanks for posting