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Title: As anti-vax movement gets weirder - and dumber - Facebook announces crackdown
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ArsTechnica
URL Source: https://arstechnica.com/science/201 ... -facebook-announces-crackdown/
Published: Mar 11, 2019
Author: Beth Mole
Post Date: 2019-03-11 10:02:49 by Tooconservative
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Views: 12799
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Facing scrutiny for allowing anti-vaccine lies and conspiracy theories to fester and spread on its pages, Facebook announced Thursday a set of steps it will take to rid its platform of misinformation—which has seemingly become even weirder and more idiotic recently. The move follows a letter sent to Facebook from Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) last month, raising concerns that anti-vaccine information spread on the site could corrupt anxious parents’ views of safe, life-saving immunizations. Schiff also questioned the popular social media site about accepting payments from anti-vaccine advertisements. Facebook wasn’t the only media giant questioned; Schiff sent a similar letter to Google, too, raising concerns about content on YouTube specifically. Still, Facebook has taken center stage on the issue. In a Senate hearing last week exploring the rise of misinformation about vaccines (titled Vaccines Save Lives), a now-high-profile Ohio teenager made a point to single out the site. Ethan Lindenberger, the 18-year-old who famously got himself vaccinated despite his mother being fiercely against vaccines, said his mother’s false beliefs came from one place: Facebook. When a Senator asked Lindenberger where he got his information on vaccines, Lindenberger, chuckling, responded, “not Facebook.” “From CDC, World Health Organization, scientific journals… accredited sources,” he added. With the steps outlined Thursday, Facebook aims to inject some of those credible sources into its platform. Broadly, the social media giant will try to boost the profile of accurate, authoritative information on vaccines while thwarting the spread of pre-identified vaccine misinformation in news feeds and recommendations. It will also boot ads with that misinformation. To identify just what is false and what is credible, Facebook said it will rely on the World Health Organization and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to pick out what it referred to as “vaccine hoaxes.“ “If these vaccine hoaxes appear on Facebook, we will take action against them,” the company said. It offered an example of planned actions, saying that “if a group or Page admin posts this vaccine misinformation, we will exclude the entire group or Page from recommendations, reduce these groups and Pages' distribution in News Feed and Search, and reject ads with this misinformation.” The success of the stated plan may hinge on whether the World Health Organization and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention can keep up with the ever-shifting conspiracy theories and bunkum related to vaccines. The noxious yet established falsehood that vaccines or vaccine components can cause autism, for instance, has been widely debunked. But others are burgeoning and may be hard to head off. For instance, there's the myth that vaccines are cash cows for Big Pharma (they make relatively little revenue), which is secretly behind pro-vaccine messages (they’re not; public health experts are). More recently, a theme that has been volleyed by anti-vaccine advocates is that getting measles is somehow good for you and could prevent cancer. Both are completely wrong. Measles is a serious illness that can cause severe disabilities in children, including deafness and intellectual disabilities. It is also deadly. An ongoing measles outbreak in Madagascar, for instance, has killed nearly 1,000 children. Being dead isn’t good for you. The idea circulating that measles can prevent cancer may stem from a misunderstanding of studies that used bioengineered versions of the virus to deliver cancer therapies. But these are not the viruses that circulate during outbreaks. There is no credible evidence to suggest that previous measles infections will protect a person from cancers. Last, in an even more idiotic turn, a Texas lawmaker argued that he was not worried about measles because, in the US, we have “antibiotics and that kind of stuff.” Antibiotics only treat bacterial infections. Measles is caused by a virus. Moreover, there is no specific antiviral treatment for measles. Due in large part to this kind of misinformation spreading, the US is now battling six separate measles outbreaks and has confirmed cases in 11 states so far this year. Amid an outbreak in Washington state, more than 800 potentially exposed children have been barred from schools.
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#32. To: Tooconservative (#0)
*Initials for the virus is AuAg? https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/54/2/157
Peer reviewed study on fetal cell contamination with retro virus associated with autism and cancer http://www.globalresearch.ca/new-study-in-journal-o…/5402912 Study documentation- Dr Deisher http://www.ms.academicjournals.org/…/article1409245960_Deis… Autism and mercury poisoning http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11339848 Hypothesis: conjugate vaccines may predispose children to autism spectrum disorders http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21993250 Rise in autism coincides with rise in vaccines http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21623535 A two-phase study evaluating the relationship between Thimerosal-containing vaccine administration and the risk for an autism spectrum disorder diagnosis in the United States http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3878266/ Elevated levels of measles antibodies in children with autism. - PubMed - NCBI Pediatr Neurol. 2003 Apr;28(4):292-4. Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov •••••••••••••••• A study published in the Journal of Biomedical Sciences determined that the autoimmunity to the central nervous system may play a causal role in autism. Researchers discovered that because many autistic children harbour elevated levels of measles antibodies, they should conduct a serological study of measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) and myelin basic protein (MBP) autoantibodies. They used serum samples of 125 autistic children and 92 controlled children. Their analysis showed a significant increase in the level of MMR antibodies in autistic children. The study concludes that the autistic children had an inappropriate or abnormal antibody response to MMR. The study determined that autism could be a result from an atypical measles infection that produces neurological symptoms in some children. The source of this virus could be a variant of MV, or it could be the MMR vaccine.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed /12145534 ••••••••••••••••••• IMPORTANT- Package inserts: www.immunize.org/fda/ Ingredients: www.cdc.gov/…/do…/appendices/b/excipient-table-2.pdf Supreme Court declares vaccines unavoidably unsafe:www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/10pdf/09-152.pdf National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act legislation (renders manufactures 100% of any & all liability): www.congress.gov/bill/99th-congress/house- bill/5546 VAERS: vaers.hhs.gov/index National Compensation Court website (note the $4 billion paid out comes from tax payers): www.hrsa.gov/vaccinecomp ensation/data/ Detox baths: www.howhesraised.net/…/the-beginners-guide-to-deto…/ Vaccine requirements for work/school by state: www.nvic.org/Vaccine…/state-vaccine-requirements.aspx Vit K package insert: www.accessdata.fda.gov/ …/2003/012223Orig1s039Lbl.pdf People who should not be vaccinated: www.thefamilythathealstogether.com/vaccine-contrai…/ Lawsuit determines that federally required safety studies have not been performed in 30 years: icandecide.org/…/ICAN-HHS-Stipulated-Order-July-2018… Fetal Cells & Vaccine Contaminates- Fetal cells: vaccineimpact.com/…/new-fetal-cell-line-from-live-a…/ More on fetal cells: m.facebook.com/story.php?...402 989&id=272455363101747 20%-36% of cell lines scientists are using are contaminated or misidentified: www.statnews.com/2016/07/21/studies-wrong-cells/ Still going to vaccinate? Let's hope that you are getting real vaccines – not alcohol & cat saliva! : www.wandtv.com/…/doctor-concocts-his-own-vaccines-wi… SV40 cancer virus that infected 98 million Americans in the polio vaccine: www.sv40foundation.org Development of vaccines from aborted fetuses: cogforlife.org/ …/upl…/2012/04/farnsworthvaccines.pdf DNA mutations from fetal cell lines in vaccines: soundchoice.org/research/ WALVAX2 (fetal cells): www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/ pubmed/25803132/ Ethics behind WALVAX2: ethicalresearch.net/…/the-ethics-of-the-walvax-2-ce…/ PBS on how vital fetal cells are for vaccine development: www.pbs.org/…/medical-researchers-say-fetal-tissue-… Vaccine Failure & Shedding- Mumps outbreak – all vaccinated: m.huffpost.c om/us/entry/us_57276bc7e4b0b49df6abc402 Measles outbreak in a fully immunized school: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/ 3821823 Measles outbreak among the vaccinated: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/ 8053748 New York measles outbreak linked to vaccinated: cid.oxfordjournals.org/conte…/ …/2014/02/27/cid.ciu105 Vaccinated child responsible for measles outbreak in British Columbia: www.eurosurveillance.org/ …/dy…/EE/V18N49/art20649.pdf Mumps outbreak in Netherlands linked to those vaccinated: wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/20/4/13-1681_article Vaccinated student in Cali diagnosed with mumps: www.nbcsandiego.com/…/Cal-State-San-Marcos-Student-D… What's shedding? : insidevaccines.com/…/secondary-trans…/comment-page-1/ 98% vaccinated in pertussis outbreak: www.activistpost.com/…/98-vaccinated-involved-in-who… Vaccine-related polio outbreak in Syria 2017: www.statnews.com/2017/…/08/polio-outbreak-syria-who/ More vaccine failure – pertussis outbreak in vaccinated children: wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/22/2/pdfs/15-0325.pdf Pertussis outbreak in San Diego – 621 people & 85% were vaccinated – MORE vaccine failure: www.kpbs.org/…/immunized-people-getting-whooping-co…/ Largest measles epidemic in North America in the last decade occurred in 2011 in Quebec where 1 & 2 dose vaccine coverage among children 3 years of age were 95%-97%: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/p ubmed/23264672/ Hib outbreak – 363/443 (82%) were vaccinated: jid.oxfordjournals .org/content/188/4/481.full The Emerging risks of live virus & virus vectored vaccines: www.nvic.org/…/Live-Virus-Vaccines-and-Vaccine-Shedd… What's shedding? : insidevaccines.com/…/secondary-trans…/comment-page-1/ Small Pox vaccine sheds to infant from parent (military personnel): mobile.reuters. com/article/idUSN1744524120070518
icandecide.org/…/ICAN-HHS-Stipulated-Order-July-2018… Vaccine requirements for work/school by state: www.nvic.org/Vaccine…/state-vaccine-requirements.aspx New York measles outbreak linked to vaccinated: cid.oxfordjournals.org/conte…/ …/2014/02/27/cid.ciu105 Pertussis outbreak in San Diego – 621 people & 85% were vaccinated – MORE vaccine failure: www.kpbs.org/…/immunized-people-getting-whooping-co…/ Development of vaccines from aborted fetuses: cogforlife.org/ …/upl…/2012/04/farnsworthvaccines.pdf SV40 cancer virus that infected 98 million Americans in the polio vaccine: www.sv40foundation.org Nice work, WWG1WWA. On one hand, CDC oversight on vaccination ingredients and potential dangers is...SORELY LACKING... ...YET, work/school requirements FOR multiple vaccines IS MANDATED. WHY?? Q: Why is Abortion/Baby-Murder declared a matter of "personal choice" by SCOTUS, but NOT a matter of personal choice for proven unsafe, unnecessary, under-regulated Vaccines??
The very existence of a special Vaccine Court which pays out Taxpayer Monies to cover vaccine settlements, shows how corrupt our government support of Big Pharma is. Why the hell should we pay to protect against drug pushers reckless business practices?
#46. To: hondo68 (#41)
True. This is unbelievable.
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#34. To: All (#33)
#38. To: WWG1WWA, Tooconservative, Pinguinite, Deckard, hondo68 (#34)
Lawsuit determines that federally required safety studies have not been performed in 30 years:
#41. To: Liberator, priviledged immunity for Big Pharma, we foot the bill (#38)
Replies to Comment # 41. The very existence of a special Vaccine Court which pays out Taxpayer Monies to cover vaccine settlements, shows how corrupt our government support of Big Pharma is.
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