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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThey take an oath to do no harm, but these doctors are spreading misinformation about the Covid vacc
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"What you've got to do is reduce the transmission rate of misinformation. The way you do that is stop giving them the world's biggest megaphone in the history of communications - social media - where they can transmit to billions of people for zero cost."
They take an oath to do no harm, but these doctors are spreading misinformation about the Covid...
They take an oath to do no harm, but these doctors are spreading misinformation about the Covid vaccine.
cnn.com
7:56 PM · Oct 19, 2021
Center for Countering Digital Hate
@CCDHate
"What you've got to do is reduce the transmission rate of misinformation. The way you do that is stop giving them the world's biggest megaphone in the history of communications - social media - where they can transmit to billions of people for zero cost."
They take an oath to do no harm, but these doctors are spreading misinformation about the Covid...
They take an oath to do no harm, but these doctors are spreading misinformation about the Covid vaccine.
cnn.com
7:56 PM · Oct 19, 2021
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/19/us/doctors-covid-vaccine-misinformation-invs/index.html
(CNN) She was a frequent guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show -- an Ivy League-educated OB-GYN who often spoke about women's health and holistic medicine.
She was a media darling, and in 2013 made Reader's Digest's annual list of 100 most trusted people in America. If you go to Dr. Christiane Northrup's Facebook page, her posts dispensing advice on health and aging to her 558,000 followers seem consistent with that persona of several years ago.
But Northrup also uses her Facebook page to direct followers to Telegram, where another side of her is apparent. Here, on this platform with lax moderation, lies a miasma of misinformation and conspiracy theories.
"Best Explanation I've Seen About Why the Covid Jabs Are Killer Shots," reads one post that she shared.
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They take an oath to do no harm, but these doctors are spreading misinformation about the Covid vacc (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Oct 2021
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tanyev
(42,553 posts)1. "If Covid is so dangerous, we'd be seeing people die left and right," Bukacek said.
Um, that's exactly what we're seeing.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)2. Bukakke is an idiot.
And the headline uses the wrong word for "disinformation".
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)3. Wow, that yellow poster board is straight up Orwell.
She has no idea.