U.S. Government Partnering With Community Leaders to Increase COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has proposed an initiative called “The
Poll: Half of Correctional Officers Do Not Want COVID-19 Vaccine
When a correctional officer took a poll of his co-workers on a private Facebook group asking whether they would get the COVID-19 vaccine, only 40 of 475 (8.4 percent) said yes and more than half replied, “Hell no”.1 This informal poll appears to represent the sentiment of Department of Corrections employees across the country. Despite […]
CENSORED: National Vaccine Information Center
A highly-rated nonprofit vaccine safety charity has been censored by Facebook on behalf of pharmaceutical industry interests in a purge of vaccine safety information. The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) had maintained a Facebook page since 2008. The organization was started 39-years ago. Co-founder and president is Barbara Loe Fisher. Fisher became a vaccine safety advocate after her […]
The Worst Part about Social Media Censorship is ***********
Ah, social media… It started as a fun way to convince your friends you were better than them, while secretly hating your life. But then it developed into the dominant way of sharing political information to annoy all of your acquaintances. … But isn’t is right we’re able to spread information so much more easily […]
When Even The New York Times Doesn’t Pass Facebook Muster
Opinion | If you’re on Facebook, by now you probably know that it has long ceased to be a social media platform where you can post freely without the threat of censorship. This is particularly true if you post something related to vaccines and vaccine policy or law that may not conform 100 percent to […]
Facebook Bans Ads “Discouraging” Vaccination
Facebook has announced that the company is implementing a new global policy banning paid advertisements on its platform that it has determined discourage people from getting vaccinated.1 According to a blog authored by Kang-Xing Jin, Head of Health and Rob Leathern, Director of Product Management at Facebook: Today, we’re launching a new global policy that […]