U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy on Thursday issued an advisory warning the American public about the “urgent threat” of health misinformation and disinformation that have “threatened the U.S. response to COVID-19 and continue to prevent Americans from getting vaccinated, prolonging the pandemic and putting lives at risk.”
The 22-page advisory calls on Big Tech and social media companies to take more responsibility to stop the online spread of health misinformation.
The advisory blamed “misinformation” for causing people to decline COVID vaccines, reject public health measures such as masking and physical distancing and using unproven treatments.
Murthy, who operates under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), said in a press release, “As Surgeon General, my job is to help people stay safe and healthy, and without limiting the spread of health misinformation, American lives are at risk.”
According to the HHS press release, whether “health misinformation” is false, inaccurate or misleading will be determined by the “best available evidence.”
The advisory further defined the “best available evidence” standard as the preferred benchmark because “claims can be highly misleading and harmful even if the science on an issue isn’t yet settled.”
“We can meaningfully improve the health information environment even without a consensus definition of misinformation,” Murthy said.
The full advisory lays out recommendations for families, health professionals, researchers, educators, media, funders, government and technology platforms, and urges individuals to take responsibility to limit the spread of misinformation.
The advisory calls for media and social media companies to increase staff to moderate posts, amplify preferred voices, improve algorithms to address misinformation, moderate live streams and impose “clear consequences for accounts that repeatedly violate platform policies.”
Schools and educational institutions are encouraged to crack down on misinformation by educating people on “tactics used by those who deny scientific consensus on health issues” and “introduce conspiracies.”
In an interview with NPR, Murthy said Americans must do their part to fight misinformation. “COVID has really brought into sharp focus the full extent of damage that health misinformation is doing,” Murthy said ahead of the advisory’s release.
Surgeon general’s advisories are reserved for significant public health challenges that demand immediate attention.
In a White House press briefing Thursday, press secretary Jen Psaki singled out Facebook as needing to do more to combat COVID vaccine misinformation on its platform.
“Facebook needs to move more quickly to remove violative posts,” Psaki said. “Posts that will be within their policies’ removal often remain up for days. That’s too long. The information spreads too quickly,” she said.
A CNN source said Biden officials took concerns about vaccine misinformation to Facebook and concluded the tech giant was either not “taking this very seriously, or they are hiding something” due to what they view as Facebook’s unwillingness to tackle vaccine misinformation.
The source pointed to how Robert F. Kennedy Jr., co-founder and chair of Children’s Health Defense, was banned from Instagram, which is owned by Facebook, but not from Facebook itself.
The Facebook spokesperson told CNN, “We don’t automatically disable accounts across our apps, because the accounts may post about different things on our different services.”
In an interview today with The Defender, Kennedy said:
“I’m very happy to debate the Surgeon General or to line my stacks up against his and allow the public to judge which one of us is the source of misinformation — is the font of all the vaccine misinformation, disinformation and obfuscation. I would also remind the Surgeon General that censorship by the government is not just un-American, it’s unconstitutional, and he should have the confidence in his policies in the marketplace of ideas and not have to rely on coercion.”
Kennedy said it’s not up to the government or CNN to decide. He said:
“It’s a dangerous path for democracy when we allow government officials and CNN, which is utterly dependent on pharmaceutical advertising, to tell Americans they are not allowed to criticize pharmaceutical products — zero liability, experimental pharmaceutical products.”
People injured by COVID vaccines are asking for help on GoFundMe as the U.S. government shields vaccine makers from liability.
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Psaki called for Facebook to make more information public about who, and how many people are seeing and interacting with what the administration labels “misinformation” about COVID.
The CNN source said administration officials were frustrated with what they view as Facebook’s failures to uphold its own policies on vaccine misinformation — the company often does not act fast enough or is inconsistent in its policing of violating content, the officials complain.
Rockefeller Foundation commits $13.5 million to misinformation campaign
On the same day the surgeon general issued his advisory, The Rockefeller Foundation issued a press release announcing $13.5 million in new funding to, among other things, “counter health mis- and disinformation — confusing, inaccurate, and harmful information that spreads at an unprecedented speed and scale and threatens the health and wellbeing of communities around the world.”
The Foundation cited the surgeon general’s call for a “whole-of-society effort” so that people around the world know what to do and can trust the sources they hear from during a public health emergency, such as the COVID pandemic.
“By identifying mis- and disinformation as a challenge to our collective health, the surgeon general’s guidance reinforces The Rockefeller Foundation’s role in investing in data-driven public health interventions to meet the unique challenges of today’s media environment,” said Bruce Gellin, the foundation’s chief of global public health strategy.
The foundation said the funding will “support the design and evaluation of interventions, tools and methods to build trust in COVID vaccination efforts and counter inaccurate information and research to understand how inaccurate health information impacts online and offline behaviors, the true cost of mis- and disinformation on health and economic outcomes and what strategies might be most effective to counter and manage inaccurate and harmful information from malicious sources.”
Detailed information is slated to be released by the end of 2021, the foundation said.
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And there is the population control deep state elitists doubling down on their propaganda. Message to you and bill gates: WE’RE NOT GONNA TAKE IT !
Woodrow Wilson, arguably the WORST president the Republic has ever seen, STARTED the “ministry of misinformation”, the propaganda machine, officially the “Committee on Public Information” (aka the Creel Committee)
“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government.”
He was also the first to use the USPS to spy on people.
Rev 13:16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
Rev 13:17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
America has shipped these non-vaccines world wide either by designing them for the production or by directly shipping those that they’ve produced themselves… even the non-existent, never clinically isolated virus is of American scientific origin.
The entire non-pandemic was created so that these non-vaccine cattle markers could be put into the cattle. And so far the cattle have clamored and been jabbed, but now that the brain dead have been tagged the awake must also be and that is turning out to be a different and difficult matter entirely.
And for those who disagree with me, go get jabbed and see you never again soon.
“ As for me and my house WE shall serve the Lord. “
the only thing threatened is their retirement income
First Amendment Rights shall not be abridged, Mr. Surgeon General English Major/NGO B**ch!
“…claims can be highly misleading and harmful even if the science on an issue isn’t yet settled.”
Actually, the time to settle the science, if, in fact, it ever can be, is before you inject 132 million people with a substance that has outright killed 11,000 Americans (CDC data), and disabled THOUSANDS more. I’m not one of them, and I’m not going to be either. Why I’m not taking the injection….is irrelevant. THAT I’m not is. That’s not misinformation. The definition of misinformation is basing a policy, affecting the lives of millions of people, on what you know to be preliminary, untested information ESPECIALLY if it’s the “best information available”. And he mispelled Murphy…as in MURPHY’S LAW.
You know the surgeon General is lying when his standard of truth is “consensus.” If you get enough people to agree wiping back to front is the best method, that doesn’t make it true.
If the administration was serious about canceling what they call misinformation, they would host a nationally televised debate between Fauci/surgeon general/pro-vaccine industry reps and some of the most vocal recognized doctors who are being censored for pushing Ivermectin and HCQ as alternatives, as well as the experts calling for people not to get the shots at all.
They are losing this battle big and they know it. They also know they have a limited amount of time to distribute the killer VAX before people start to die end mass. They also know its mostly their own supporters only who are getting the jab. Most importantly, they know we are going to hunt them all down and kill them for it in the end.
Rockefeller has always been synonymous with eugenics, technocracy, and now transhumanism. Globalist authoritarianism. They funded Kinsey’s fraudulent sex research, which started the sexual revolution. Look up “Kinsey Table 34”. They fund the Tavistock Institute where children are groomed for sex changes.