Small number of Facebook Pages did 46% of top 10,000 posts for or against vaccines

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/02/27/small-number-of-facebook-pages.html

About 20% of the total posts were found to have been generated by seven anti-vax Pages.

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If only there was some way to inoculate against anti-vaxers.

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Heh. Well done. :slight_smile:

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It’s actually way easier than we think for platforms to stamp out this kind of abuse.

FB and Twitter have the technology and expertise to deplatform lots of dangerous scumbags, but they don’t want to spend the money or lose users.

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https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2018.304567

It just never ends, does it?

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Ah, but that would contravene their “anything for a quick buck” policy.

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Again, it never ends.

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There is no way that Facebook themselves haven’t known this for a long time (or if they didn’t, that’s an even worse problem)

They should be treated as the criminal organization that they are; blocked by ISP’s, by app stores, and fined tens of billions of dollars until they stop intentionally destabilizing the world.

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This kid may be walking into a hornets’ nest, considering Il Douche’s well documented antivaccine stance. Can only hope sanity prevails.

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