On 9 March 2023, I requested all correspondence between the Department of Health and Aged Care #Australia , Facebook and Twitter regarding Dept. request(s) for Facebook posts/groups and Tweets to be removed or flagged from 1 Jan 2021 - 1 March 2023.
FOI 4293 - A 🧵
PART - 1/3
Department of Health and Aged Care, #Australia Social Media unit reached out to Facebook querying if Facebook group "United Collective" infringed its policy (spreading misinformation) and as a result if it can be shut down?
Following this, Facebook advised that they reviewed and deleted 9 piece of content for violation of their policies.
Facebook also advised Dept. of Health #Australia to keep an eye on post(s) which might be violating their policy and report them to Facebook for review.
Dept. of Health #Australia "thought" this Facebook group's aim is to breach Facebook's COVID misinformation policy and is against the COVID information (mainstream), why Facebook is not removing the group?
Facebook advised that large volume of content does not violate policy.
Correspondence between Facebook and Dept. of Health #Australia show discussion about "demoting".
CNET in October 2021 published that Facebook
will demote content posted in Groups making potentially problematic content harder for others to find.
Dept. of Health reached out to Facebook
flagging a group where members shared their #COVID19 vaccine reactions and a group on Instagram.
Facebook took the group down (policy violation).
FB group name - australiancovidvaccinereactions
Instgaram group - ourvociematters_official
Dept. of Health #Australia reached out to Facebook about an antivax Facebook group and advised that they are using Dept. branding as photo) to make it more legit.
Facebook advised Dept. of Health to lodge a IP complaint.
Facebook took the down the group.
Dept. of Health #Australia flagged (context- harassment) with Facebook a post which encouraged people to contact the TGA via phone or email from .@NationFirstAust who they alleged is a known political anti-vaxxer.
Facebook advised it did not violated their policies.
Continuation of previous thread on FOI 4293 in which I requested correspondence b/w the Department of Health #Australia , Facebook & Twitter regarding Dept. request(s) for Facebook posts/groups and Tweets to be removed or flagged from 1 Jan 2021 - 1 Mar 2023.
In this email chain, we can see Dept. of Health #Australia social media team discussing (presumably with Twitter) that they have reported .@CKellyUAP Twitter account for spreading COVID misinformation, Twitter advised that it didn't breach guidelines and DOH requested escalation.
Here is an email chain where Dept. of Health #Australia flagged (was tagged by a user) .@reignitedemaust Twitter post where they have used DOH branding on their content and queried how to remove the post and Dept's logo is not used in the future.
Recently published TGA #Australia FOI 4251 shows causality assessment outcomes for deaths assessed by the TGA as likely to be linked to COVID-19 vaccination.
ATAGI #Australia advised today:-
A bivalent vaccine (one dose) is preferred over original vaccines (2 doses) for primary vaccination.
Also:-
"While there are currently no efficacy or effectiveness studies of bivalent vaccines when used for the primary vaccination course"
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And perhaps a subtle admission that natural immunity exist 🤔
"....in the context of widespread community transmission in #Australia which suggests that most previously unvaccinated recipients will have some pre-existing immunity from prior infection."
A 🧵on an interesting development in #Australia regarding COVID-19 vaccine digital certificate which is generated using the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) which is a national register that records vaccinations given to people of all ages in Australia.
Australians had (still have to in some work sectors) to provide a copy of the COVID-19 digital certificate to their employers to work "on-site" as COVID-19 vaccines and proof of administration was mandated by state governments across #Australia via Public Health Order.
Here is a sample of COVID-19 vaccine digital certificate (now outdated) issued by the Australian Government which will show all the necessary details including the brand of the COVID-19 vaccine, date of vaccination and number of doses.
TGA has finally published (8 May 2023), almost after an year, documentations on death of a 5 year old (M), 7 year old (M) and a 9 year old (F) following #Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.
TGA #Australia has announced today (3 May 2023), that from 1 June 2023, prescribing of oral #Ivermectin for ‘off-label’ uses will no longer be limited to specialists such as dermatologists, gastroenterologists and infectious diseases specialists.
Excerpt from the document (Notice of final decision) shows how and why it is still considered that #Ivermectin is not a useful prophylaxis/medicine for COVID-19 and instead COVID-19 vaccines and treatments should be preferred.
Note that Pharmacy Guild of #Australia wrote to the panel and advised AGAINST removing the Appendix D entry because they think that if #Ivermectin is available, people may choose not to get vaccinated.