{"id":10860,"date":"2021-08-19T08:52:55","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T12:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=10860"},"modified":"2021-08-20T09:09:47","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T13:09:47","slug":"facebook-removes-more-than-36-vaccine-misinformation-pages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/facebook-removes-more-than-36-vaccine-misinformation-pages\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Removes More Than 36 Vaccine Misinformation Pages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Facebook Inc announced it had deleted more than three dozen pages that spread misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines after the White House called on social media companies to tighten controls on pandemic-related facts circulating on their platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Social media giants such as YouTube, Twitter, and Google have come under fire from the Biden administration for spreading vaccine misinformation, which is hampering the pace of vaccination in a nation where many oppose vaccines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A recent report by the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) showed that 12 anti-vaccine accounts are responsible for nearly two-thirds of anti-vaccine misinformation on the internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the key articles on vaccine misinformation that the Biden administration is fighting are claiming that the COVID-19 vaccines are ineffective, false claims that they carry microchips and that they negatively affect women&#8217;s fertility, a White House official said last month.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/facebook-removes-dozens-vaccine-misinformation-superspreaders-2021-08-18\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Reuters.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook Inc announced it had deleted more than three dozen pages that spread misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[51,43],"class_list":["post-10860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-networks","tag-covid-19","tag-facebook"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10860"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10884,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10860\/revisions\/10884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}