The BBC has boasted that it triggered the removal of a Facebook vaccine injury support group with over 250,000 members.
The BBC has seen several groups, one with hundreds of thousands of members, in which the [carrot] emoji appears in place of the word ‘vaccine’. Facebook’s algorithms tend to focus on words rather than images. The groups are being used to share unverified claims of people being either injured or killed by vaccines.
Once the BBC alerted Facebook’s parent company, Meta, the groups were removed.
“We have removed this group for violating our harmful misinformation policies and will review any other similar content in line with this policy. We continue to work closely with public health experts and the U.K. Government to further tackle Covid vaccine misinformation,” the firm said in a statement.
However, the groups have since reappeared in our searches.
One group we saw has been around for three years but rebranded itself to focus on vaccine stories, from being a group for sharing “banter, bets and funny videos” in August 2022.
The rules of the very large group state: “Use code words for everything.” It adds: “Do not use the c word, v word or b word ever” (Covid, vaccine, booster). It was created more than a year ago and has more than 250,000 members.
Marc Owen-Jones, a disinformation researcher, and associate professor at Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar, was invited to join it.
“It was people giving accounts of relatives who had died shortly after having the COVID-19 vaccine”, he said. “But instead of using the words ‘COVID-19’ or ‘vaccine’, they were using emojis of carrots.
“Initially I was a little confused. And then it clicked – that it was being used as a way of evading, or apparently evading, Facebook’s fake news detection algorithms.”
I wonder if Parliament’s champion of the vaccine injured Sir Christopher Chope has anything to say about this? He is just about to launch a new All Party Parliamentary Group on COVID-19 Vaccine Damage.
The BBC helpfully explains that the ONS stated the risk of fatal vaccine injury last year – thus implying these people must all be wrong, or at least ought not to be allowed to talk to one another.
In 2021 data from the Office for National Statistics suggested that there was a one in 5 million risk of dying from the Covid vaccine, compared with a risk of 35,000 deaths per five million of dying from Covid itself, if unvaccinated.
Even if we assume, for the sake of argument, these figures are correct, they are not broken down by age and only cover deaths not injuries. A recent study by Dr. Peter Doshi and colleagues found that in the vaccine trials the vaccines were more likely to cause serious injury than prevent it. A recent paper from Oxford, Harvard and Johns Hopkins Universities similarly found that in young adults aged 18-30 the vaccines were 18-98 times more likely to cause serious injury than prevent it. The BBC and Facebook, on the other hand, don’t believe that these injuries exist, or at least that the injured should be allowed to speak to one another and seek mutual support.
Is that why these people pay their licence fee – so the BBC can go round banning their support groups?
Facebook says it removes content which claims vaccines are more dangerous than the disease they protect against. But what if that’s what the evidence shows? Will it remove peer-reviewed scientific studies that go against its policy?
“And yet it moves…”
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There really is nothing else to say about this which hasn’t already been said a thousand times, therefore a meme will have to do it for me;
https://twitter.com/FatEmperor/status/1701625288457658869
During the Coronavirus Press Conference held on May 11, 2020 Chris Whitty stated: “The great majority of people will not die from this (Covid-19) […] A significant proportion of people will not get this virus at all […] Of those who get symptoms, the great majority – probably 80%, will have a mild or moderate disease. Might be bad enough for them to have to go to bed for a few days.” (Watch from minute 58:32 of recorded press conference: Coronavirus press conference (11 May 2020) – YouTube Coronavirus press conference (11 May 2020) – YouTube
The imaginary virus hypothesis remains robust.
Angus Dalgliesh was our guest yesterday evening at MD4CE. His succinct & fact heavy analysis of the last few years is well worth a the investment of your time when it gets uploaded – hopefully later today. He really sits on the fence when expressing his opinion of Chris Whitty…. (Heavy sarcasm alert!)
Some very interesting Q&As too.
https://rumble.com/user/cbkovess
Now that’s a liberal democracy! People being disappeared in covert facilites for roughly three weeks based on nothing but executive fiat. The statement about flu vaccination is particularly odd. I’m wondering if this really preliminary vaxx marketing was one of the release conditions.
What is the point of the testing if you are offered no Covid-specific treatment,
In the good old days if you “had a virus” you treated the symptoms with analgesics and rest, and Covid is no different.
“Thereupon, he went to his doctor, who sent his perfectly healthy patient…”
Why? Why would a perfectly healthy patient go to his doctor? It wasn’t a viral pandemic, but a pandemic of hypochondria which allowed the shysters in Government to get away with their monstrous evil.
And… normally for Cold & ‘Flu, first symptoms start about 24 hours after infection as the immune response starts to build up. In this case first symptoms were noticed about 72 hours after infection. Doesn’t seem right. Then within 48 hours, symptoms cleared up chased away by Paracetamol – doesn’t seem right either.
But then… we are in the post-March 2020 new age of medicine and medical science.
“Thereupon, he went to his doctor, who sent his perfectly healthy patient…”
Why? Why would a perfectly healthy patient go to his doctor?
Because of the media hype, obviously. A hypochondriac would have claimed to be ill which this guy didn’t. Someone, presumably the government of the free state of Bavaria (official name) then kept him (and most of his colleagues) locked up in solitary confinment in a secret isolation facility/ prison until The Corona Pandemic and everything related to that was well under way. Presumably, they weren’t too keen on first hand witnesses possibly contradicting the scare stories early on. As no Corona measures had been implemented at that time, this was obviously formally illegal.
The thing to gather from that was that the course was already firmly set before anything-corona had happened in Europe. The authorities were not reacting to public demand. They were acting as they had planned before the public demanded anyhting about this.