Posted: Oct. 1, 2021
It looks like Big Tech might finally be starting to take anti-vaccine lies seriously -- but not Facebook, and not when the misinformation targets Christians or comes from Christian nationalists.
YouTube just announced a huge crackdown on anti-vaccine misinformation, even removing a slew of the worst offenders. This is great news -- but Facebook may be even more to blame for spreading the lies that endanger our loved ones, and they're not doing anything to stop it.
Researchers have found that just 12 pages account for 73% of anti-vaccine misinformation on Facebook, and several of them are run by Christian nationalists like Sherri Tenpenny and Ty & Charlene Bollinger.
Another disturbing new revelation comes from the MIT Technology Review, which just released an internal Facebook memo on election misinformation. Leading up to the 2020 election, Facebook knew that 19 of the top 20 American Christian pages were run by Eastern European troll farms.
Fortunately, pressure on Facebook is growing. Let's gather 10,000 signatures to show CEO Mark Zuckerberg that grassroots Christians are among those who demand he stop dragging his feet and join YouTube in shutting down the peddlers of anti-vaccine and anti-democracy disinformation.
Sign the petition:
Love thy neighbor.