A 40-page analysis of 100s of 1000s of false social media postings aimed at discouraging #COVID19 #vaccine uptake finds that 65% of it traces to just 12 people -- and here's the names.
(Do with them what you will, says Centr for Countering Digital Hate)
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And here are the Disinfo Dozen.
#1 - Joseph Mercola is a successful anti-vaccine entrepreneur, peddling dietary supplements
#2 is Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, a long-standing anti-vaxxer
#3 are Ty and Charlene Bollinger are anti-vax entrepreneurs who run a network of accounts that
market books and DVDs about vaccines
#4 is Sherri Tenpenny, an osteopath physician who spreads anti-vaccine sentiment
#5 -- Rizza Islam’s anti-vaccine posts aim to spread vaccine hesitancy amongst African
Americans
#6 is Rashid Buttar, an osteopath physician and conspiracy theorist
#7 Erin Elizabeth, partner to Joseph Mercola, runs Health Nut News
#8 Sayer Ji runs a popular alternative health website, and affiliated social media accounts that promote pseudoscience and anti-vaccine misinformation
#9 Kelly Brogan is the partner of fellow alternative health entrepreneur Sayer Ji.
#10 Christiane Northrup is an obstetrics and gynecology physician who has embraced
alternative medicine and anti-vaccine conspiracies
#11 Ben Tapper is a chiropractor
And, finally, #12 Kevin Jenkins is an anti-vaccine activist who calls vaccines a “conspiracy” to “wipe out” black people.
The Disinformation Dozen, voila.
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