White House working with social media giants to silence anti-vaxxers

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The White House is asking social media companies to clamp down on chatter that deviates from officially distributed COVID-19 information as part of President Bidenโ€™s โ€œwartime effortโ€ to vanquish the coronavirus.

A senior administration official tells Reuters that the Biden administration is asking Facebook, Twitter and Google to help prevent anti-vaccine fears from going viral, as distrust of the inoculations emerges as a major barrier in the fight against the deadly virus.

โ€œDisinformation that causes vaccine hesitancy is going to be a huge obstacle to getting everyone vaccinated and there are no larger players in that than the social media platforms,โ€ the White House source told the news agency.

โ€œWe are talking to them โ€ฆ so they understand the importance of misinformation and disinformation and how they can get rid of it quickly,โ€ the source added.

The news out of Washington is the first sign that officials are directly engaged with Silicon Valley in censoring social media users; Bidenโ€™s chief of staff Ron Klain previously said the administration would try to work with major media companies on the issue.

The Democratic administration is specifically pushing to make sure unfavorable material does โ€œnot start trending on such platforms and become a broader movement,โ€ like the recent anti-vaccine protests at Dodger Stadium, the source said.

The Los Angeles rally was organized on a Facebook page and briefly blocked access to the mass vaccination site that serves more than 8,000 people a day.

Anti-vaccine activists in the US have seen their footprints grow larger on social media, with accounts attracting nearly 8 million new followers since 2019, according to a July report by theย Center for Countering Digital Health.

Social media leadersย have vowedย to squash anti-vaccine โ€œdisinformationโ€ on their platforms, but the spreading of such content has persisted.

Byย Jesse Oโ€™Neill

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