New from me: Alternative streaming platforms have become major hotspots for coronavirus vaccine misinformation, & links to or copies of the videos have spread onto mainstream platforms like Facebook & Instagram. mediamatters.org/coronavirus-co…
In recent months, videos attacking COVID vaccines have gotten millions of combined views on these alternative streaming platforms. And in turn they've earned (at least) hundreds of thousands of Facebook combined engagements -- undermining FB's coronavirus vaccine misinfo ban. 
And earlier this month, a video from one of those alternative streaming platforms, Rumble, was repackaged on Instagram, getting it more than 100,000 views.
https://twitter.com/AlKapDC/status/1369411830477651971
It's important to note when mainstream platforms like Facebook, Instagram, & YouTube fail to enforce their coronavirus vaccine misinformation ban. But if we're not talking about the role of these alternative platforms, we're missing a big part of the story.
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