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An infamous anti-vaccine organization led through Robert F.Kennedy Jr. filed an action in federal court in California, alleging that Facebook’s data verification program for clinical or medical false data violates his constitutional rights.
Children’s Health Defense alleges in its lawsuit (PDF) that Facebook, its CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Science Feedback, Poynter and PolitiFact performed “together or in concert with federal agencies” to violate CHD’s First and Fifth Amendment rights.The lawsuit also alleges that Facebook and fact-checking organizations agreed to devote electronic fraud to “clearing the reach” of vaccine ads.As the vaccine movement gets weirder and stupider, Facebook announces crackdown
Facebook has “insidious conflicts with the pharmaceutical industry and its captive fitness agencies,” CHD said in a press release.”Recently, Facebook is censoring the Children’s Health Defense page, its purge opposed to factual data on vaccines, 5G and public fitness agencies.”
“This is a case where the First Amendment tests the limits of government authority to braishly censor unwanted complaints of government policies and prescription drugs and telecommunications on personal Internet platforms,” Kennedy said in a written statement.
Kennedy, through CHD and an affiliated organization called the World Mercury Project, was guilty of more than part of all anti-vaccine classified ads on Facebook when they were allowed, researchers discovered last year, which ended in 2019 amidst a measles outbreak, when Facebook updated its policies following pressure from the Centers for Disease Control and lawmakers.
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Facebook’s fact-checking movements violate either CHD’s rights and are also defamatory, the organization says.The organization’s repute “depends on the credibility of its clinical papers,” CHD writes in the lawsuit, “which explore known and lately unknown public fitness dangers of vaccines and 5G and wireless technology.”
Essentially, the 115-page complaint argues that Facebook’s movements amount to censorship and defamation because CHD likes its content to be classified as misinformation.
Facebook “has incorporated WHO and CDC definitions of ‘vaccine deception’ into algorithms and learning devices through which they have known the content of coronary heart disease, which is reported only because it criticizes those same agencies for being ‘biased’, ‘unreliable’ and ‘obsolete’, complains about the lawsuit, adding that Facebook and fact-checkers have agreed to ‘describe [CHD content] as ‘ fake ‘when critical of the vaccine or 5G network protection, wearing this censorship through simulated machinations of “moderator content” and “independent fact checkers”.”
These movements have “already hurt” CHD, the demand says, “and will have the effect of further harming [CHD] by damaging the reputation of its advertising and its customers, as well as that of [their] perpetrators, by diverting traffic to their site and by further cutting out their source of revenue and donations.”Trump is desperate to punish big technologies, but he doesn’t have a smart way to do it
If Facebook’s movements have well depreciated CHD’s anti-vaccine content and diverted attention, as demand claims, then their systems are working exactly as expected, but CHD cited a tough best friend in his opposite search for those systems: the White House.
In May, President Donald Trump signed an executive order on “save you from online censorship.”The order, while absolutely inapplicable, asks regulators to save you social media companies, adding Facebook, to run “to suppress prospects with which they disagree.”
There are so many things one can “disagree with” with the facts; The Earth is still circular (and its climate changes) whether you want it or not.Historically, however, Facebook has struggled to walk in that direction and separate the “fact” from “opinion” in its fact-checking process, especially when someone with an audience shouting “partiality.”
In July, for example, informants discovered that the weather rating on Facebook replaces denial based on false accusations as an “opinion” and exempts it from the fact-checking process, even though staff agreed that it is partly false.
CHD in the lawsuit argued that its anti-vaccine content should also be treated as an opinion, such as denial of climate change.the applicant is presenting false data, even knowing that the data presented are, at most, an opinion and not a false fact,” CHD said.
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