{"id":232714,"date":"2021-04-26T07:26:53","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T07:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=232714"},"modified":"2021-04-27T12:58:13","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T12:58:13","slug":"facebook-deletes-120000-member-group-where-people-posted-stories-of-alleged-adverse-vaccine-reactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=232714","title":{"rendered":"Facebook deletes 120,000-member group where people posted stories of alleged adverse vaccine reactions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom Parker \u2013 Reclaim the New Apr 23, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n

If you’re tired of cancel culture and censorship subscribe to Reclaim The Net<\/span>.<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n

Facebook has removed a popular, rapidly growing group where members would post stories about alleged negative COVID-19 vaccine side effects.<\/p>\n

The group, \u201cCOVID19 VACCINE VICTIMS AND FAMILIES,\u201d had over 120,000 followers when it was shut down and had been gaining more than 10,000 followers per week.<\/p>\n

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The shutdown of the page follows Facebook introducing a ban on a wide range of claims about the coronavirus vaccine<\/a> in February. The list of prohibited claims<\/a> includes claims that the vaccines cause blood clots and claims that the coronavirus vaccine change people\u2019s DNA (something that even Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Facebook staff during a July 2020 internal meeting<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Not only is Facebook restricting a wide range of vaccine-related claims but it\u2019s also adding labels to all posts about coronavirus vaccines<\/a>. These labels state that vaccines are safe and direct users to sources that Facebook has deemed \u201cauthoritative\u201d such as the World Health Organization (WHO).<\/p>\n

Facebook\u2019s actions are similar to those of other Big Tech platforms which have also cracked down on vaccine-related conversations over the last few months. YouTube prohibits videos that go against the WHO \u201cconsensus\u201d on coronavirus vaccines<\/a> and adds information panels to some videos<\/a> that direct viewers to the WHO and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Twitter also bans \u201charmful misleading\u201d posts about vaccines<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Politicians have actively encouraged this Big Tech crackdown on vaccine skepticism. Days ago, Democrats pushed Facebook and Twitter to \u201caddress\u201d 12 prominent vaccine skeptics<\/a>. State Attorneys General also told Facebook and Twitter to kill vaccine skepticism<\/a> earlier this month.<\/p>\n

These crackdowns on vaccine skeptic conversations come amid mass pushes from global governments to introduce digital vaccine passports<\/a> that force people to prove their vaccination or test status to enter business premises.<\/p>\n

If you’re tired of cancel culture and censorship subscribe to Reclaim The Net.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Tech giant continues to try to curb the free exchange of ideas and information on vaccines<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42,105,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-controlling-the-news-andor-the-free-exchange-of-ideas-and-information","category-coronavirus","category-Health"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=232714"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232716,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232714\/revisions\/232716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}