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Facebook Is Spreading Misinformation About Covid Vaccines

They’ve exploited public confusion and mixed messaging from government and health officials on everything from masks to vaccine side effects and safety. Bloomberg’s Sarah Frier has more on “Bloomberg Markets: The Close.”

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  1. Johnny Lightning

    April 2, 2021 at 2:53 pm

    Made from aborted babies in development and research . Immoral

  2. Geof Sawaya

    April 2, 2021 at 2:55 pm

    Where’s your professionalism, #bloomberg? It’s FB users spreading misinformation, not FB. Would you say the USPS is spreading misinformation, because (e.g.) some group mails conspiracy theory newsletters?

  3. Vernon Hendrickson

    April 2, 2021 at 2:56 pm

    What’s Facebook?

  4. Ric F.

    April 2, 2021 at 2:57 pm

    Zuckerberg needs to be in prison…

  5. c D

    April 2, 2021 at 2:58 pm

    Facebook executive, “like I like wanted a vaccine for my mother and like I like couldn’t like find one so it’s like scary….”

  6. Johnny Lightning

    April 2, 2021 at 3:00 pm

    Good Friday , remember our Saviour laid his life down for reparations for our sins, the perfect Sacrifice . Take the time today and contemplate on these mysteries. Christ offered to the Father , we Offer up reparations to Christ by Penance, Sacrifice and almsgiving .
    Remember there’s no Easter without Good Friday !

  7. Karen Werner

    April 2, 2021 at 3:00 pm

    This irresponsible report indicates why people no longer trusts journalists and “experts”: the new “journalists” do not want multiple perspectives and do not trust regular people to be smart enough or to have the freedom to sort through information. Notice there is no response from an alternate sperspective These women are puppets for an increasingly authoritarian government influenced by the CCP. If journalists and Bloomberg were more honest and actually did their research of primary sources from multiple perspectives, people would trust them more. Instead trust spirals downward and these think tanks and news organizations receiving money from or partly owned by the CCP wonder why people are resisting their mindless advocacy.

  8. Josh Cooper

    April 2, 2021 at 3:02 pm

    Haha not just facebook you crusty old propagandist. Get off my screen.

  9. stillcovalent

    April 2, 2021 at 3:03 pm

    Vaccine manufacturers have

    ZERO LIABILITY

    In case of injury or death caused by vaccines

  10. patricia smith

    April 2, 2021 at 3:05 pm

    I know someone who had a reaction🙄

  11. Damon Nugent

    April 2, 2021 at 3:41 pm

    This feels like a tv show.

  12. Kyle Stewart

    April 2, 2021 at 4:32 pm

    was having such a hard time figuring out the whole vaccine thing until the facebook groups, thanks facebook. she was like i went from being up at night desperate going to multiple websites for an appointment, to finding the facebook groups! the whole internet doesn’t have it you need to sign up for facebook

  13. Kyle Stewart

    April 2, 2021 at 4:35 pm

    she be like yo mark are you gonna send me dimes or diems now or what, I’m on vacation rn

  14. Charlene Whyte

    April 2, 2021 at 5:19 pm

    Lester Holt, a perfect example, since the media and social media are both gatekeeping propaganda, tells us how PROPAGANDA is the right thing to do when he accepted his latest award, he is the POLAR OPPOSITE of the right person for a 1st amendment award!!!

    UNPACKING A LIE is not a quick sentence, so please read.

    ** I can PROVE, UNEQUIVABLY PROVE it***

    He explains:

    “Providing an open platform for misinformation, for anyone to say whatever they want, especially when issues of public health and safety are at stake, can be quite dangerous”

    “A contrary view does not deserve our time and attention”

    He sounds logical. He says: “Sun sets in the west is a fact” and yes, like a lightbulb which is either on, or its off, so AGREED, it is NOT FALSE DICHOTOMY.

    But to use that as a basis to justify FALSE DICHOTOMY for COMPLEX ISSUES facing our nation is ABSOLUTELY and UNEQUIVACABLY FALSE BY DEFINITION.

    He, like all others with this message, make sure you don’t question it by FEEDING a moral dilemma any moral person would feel uncomfortable questioning.

    Look, its simple.

    1. Their “logical, moral, et al” correct POV is the “non disinformation”.

    2. Their “correct POV” is rife with connotation, to ensure no one will be able to identify with the opposite, and for good reason.. I wouldn’t, myself, nor the conservatives that these opposite POVs are pinned on in the news, identify with the opposite.

    NO ONE agrees with the opposite.

    3. Anyone who doesn’t go along with “non-disinformation” correct POV, is spreading “disinformation” by default, as if their opposing argument is the ONLY way to see anything.

    But this presupposes only options are “agree with what is right” or agree with “what is false”

    %%%%%%%%%

    Why don’t they want you to consider other factors in the equation; OR that factors involved in the “correct POV” have no relevant factors to be discussed in terms of proof and conflicting data?

    %%%%%%%%%

    And WHY do they use “experts” POV

    1. as if they can’t be bought and paid for, just like in court cases?

    2. as if they have no partisanship conflicts, especially in light of how identity politics have invaded almost all aspects of our lives?

    3. as if they never buy into the same fallacy as the public, only being experts in their field, may not be aware?

    4. as if there aren’t other experts whose conclusions may have better arguments?

    5. as if there aren’t examples that the public can see for themselves (i.e. Georgia voting laws)?

    6. as if anyone who offers proof of another way to interpret facts, is a conspiracy theorist ?

    7. as if questioning the motives of someone with another way to interpret facts, justifies not having to have a conversation about the merits of each pov?

    8. as if its not EASY for the media to smear someone in the name of “disinformation” if the media convinces you its not PROPAGANDA

    THAT’s what propaganda IS!!! There is only ONE way to look at something, and you are wrong, bad, immoral, stupid, conspiracy theorist, et al if you don’t.

  15. robotron17

    April 2, 2021 at 6:08 pm

    *TEXAS COVID CASES CONTINUE TO FALL,* a month after the covid cult leaders told us that cases would explode when mask mandates were lifted. Last call, people!

  16. Earth Angels

    April 2, 2021 at 6:48 pm

    Finking FB. Regulate the shit out of them

  17. Red Douc

    April 2, 2021 at 7:53 pm

    Hm, So why FB closed 10,000 people Israeli FB group that only reported their personal vaccine side effects?

  18. Hunter Gameson

    April 2, 2021 at 11:47 pm

    REVELATIONS 13….NO ONE CAN BUY OR SELL WITHOUT THE MARK OF THE BEAST!!! PFIZER NOW WANTS MILITARY BASES IN COUNTRIES IN EXCHANGE FOR THE VACCINE THIS IS AN AGENDA YOU ALL….WATCH GRAVITAS PFIZERS ABUSIVE VACCINE DEALS ON YOUTUBE TO SEE WHAT’S REALLY GOING ON!

  19. Michael Dautrich

    April 3, 2021 at 4:53 am

    04/02/21
    BIG PHARMA › NEWS
    Number of COVID Vaccine Injuries Reported to VAERS Surpasses 50,000, CDC Data Show
    VAERS data released today showed 50,861 reports of adverse events following COVID vaccines, including 2,249 deaths and 7,726 serious injuries between Dec. 14, 2020 and March 26, 2021.
    By 
    Megan Redshaw
    Every Friday, VAERS makes public all vaccine injury reports received to the system as of Friday of the previous week. Today’s data show that between Dec. 14, 2020, and March 26, a total of 50,861 total adverse events were reported to VAERS, including 2,249 deaths — an increase of 199 over the previous seven days — and 7,726 serious injuries, up 631 over the same time period.
    Of the 2,249 deaths reported as of March 26, 28% occurred within 48 hours of vaccination, 19% occurred within 24 hours and 43% occurred in people who became ill within 48 hours of being vaccinated.
    An interview in MedPage Today highlighted the shortfalls of the post-marketing surveillance of the COVID vaccine. Aaron Kesselheim, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, said we are seeing a lot of spontaneous reporting, a lack of formal post-approval studies because vaccines have only received Emergency Use Authorization and vaccines being given outside the healthcare systems — interfering with the ability to rigorously collect observational data.

    Although the CDC and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have various systems in place to monitor the safety of vaccines, they are not “up and running” and do not have adequate resources behind them,
    Kesselheim said.

  20. Dennis Morris

    April 3, 2021 at 1:45 pm

    What the elderly need to obtain a vaccine (as with everyone else) is an address of a place to go and a posting of hours of operation – everything else is superfluous, and by no means, should the superfluous be called “technology”. Technology should always be designed to aid humanity, not complicate it. As a physician and professor of medicine in Mexico, I strongly disagree with the comment that doctors do not speak in absolutes, indeed, medical ethics that incorporates the mandate of informed consent, requires that physicians speak in complete clarity with patients before consent may be obtained. Sadly, what was stated at the end of this piece is simply more misinformation that serves more to undermine the patient-physician relationship rather than to responsibly inform the public.

  21. loyaljustice1

    April 3, 2021 at 7:47 pm

    You have NO CLUE what ANY of these vaccines WILL DO TO YOU. ALL Covid vac are EXPERIMENTAL. FACT! You want to be a lab rat go for it, but don’t try pushing people to inject something that you have no idea what it will do. We KNOW it won’t protect you from Not wearing a mask! These people are sick. Welcome to Chimerica.

  22. Iam TheGOAT

    April 4, 2021 at 12:39 am

    When will people get off this unsecure, programmed by 15 year old hack of a platform? Lizard boy is selling your info! But just keep posting pics of things NOBODY cares about. SMH

  23. Ya Boi Avery

    April 4, 2021 at 12:27 pm

    Censorship.

  24. Charles Turpin

    April 4, 2021 at 8:18 pm

    Facebook is really dumb. It’s outdated and irrelevant
    In this day and age. It’s like dos compared to windows at this point.

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