Facebook announced that it will enforce a stricter level of censorship related to coronavirus and vaccinations, removing content that supposedly includes false claims about COVID-19 vaccines that have supposedly been debunked by the platform’s health “experts.”
NBC News reports that the move is intended to crack down on “conspiracy theories” about the virus. It follows a similar announcement from Google-owned YouTube back in October.
Facebook says it takes down information that poses a risk of “imminent” harm and labels and reduces other false claims that fail to meet its standards. The social network explained in a blog post that the global police change was a response to recent news that coronavirus vaccines would start rolling out worldwide in the near future.
The blog post also details Facebook’s new rules for removing misinformation:
For example, we will remove false claims that COVID-19 vaccines contain microchips, or anything else that isn’t on the official vaccine ingredient list. We will also remove conspiracy theories about COVID-19 vaccines that we know today are false: like specific populations are being used without their consent to test the vaccine’s safety. We will not be able to start enforcing these policies overnight. Since it’s early and facts about COVID-19 vaccines will continue to evolve, we will regularly update the claims we remove based on guidance from public health authorities as they learn more.
Back in November, the nonprofit group First Draft reported that 84 percent of user interactions with vaccine-related conspiracy content came from Facebook pages and from Instagram, which is owned by Facebook. Facebook did not specify when it would begin enforcing its updated policy, but noted that it would “not be able to start enforcing these policies overnight.”
Last week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg publicly said the platform is trying to work with Joe Biden on a joint Facebook-Biden administration push for Americans to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
During a livestream interview with Dr. Anthony Fauci, the Facebook founder mentioned a “push around authoritative information on vaccines.”
NBC News noted about the recent developments at Facebook:
The social media company has rarely removed misinformation about other vaccines under its policy of deleting content that risks imminent harm. It previously removed vaccine misinformation in Samoa where a measles outbreak killed dozens late last year, and it removed false claims about a polio vaccine drive in Pakistan that were leading to violence against health workers.
Facebook, which has taken steps to surface authoritative information about vaccines, said in October that it would also ban ads that discourage people from getting vaccines. In recent weeks, Facebook removed a prominent anti-vaccine page and a large private group – one for repeatedly breaking Covid misinformation rules and the other for promoting the QAnon conspiracy theory.
Despite Facebook’s insistence on shutting down claims that the COVID-19 vaccine includes a microchip, serious students of the Deep State have not made that claim. Rather, they have merely pointed out that the same elites pushing the world’s population to receive the coronavirus shot have for years now explored and funded the potential of microchipping humans via vaccines for various purposes.
For example, Bill Gates, who has been very vocal throughout the “pandemic,” is financing both an under-the-skin vaccine history device that can be read with infrared-equipped smartphones and a remote-controlled contraceptive microchip to go under women’s skin.
These were publicly written about before the COVID-19 outbreak began. The former, for example was described at MIT’s website, which noted that “MIT researchers have now developed a novel way to record a patient’s vaccination history: storing the data in a pattern of dye, invisible to the naked eye, that is delivered under the skin at the same time as the vaccine.”
“In areas where paper vaccination cards are often lost or do not exist at all, and electronic databases are unheard of, this technology could enable the rapid and anonymous detection of patient vaccination history to ensure that every child is vaccinated,” Kevin McHugh, a former MIT postdoc, is quoted as saying in the piece.
The under-the-skin contraceptive device, meanwhile, was written about in The Washington Post in an article entitled “This amazing remote-controlled contraceptive microchip you implant under your skin is the future of medicine.”
Considering Bill Gates’ love affair with population control, his bankrolling of this technology is not surprising — nor is it surprising that the Washington Post would see it as “amazing” and “the future of medicine.”
