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pamela [Now the Anti-Vaccine World is Mad at ‘Died Suddenly,’The Viral Anti-Vax Documentary] 		anna_merlan [2022/12/13 22:13] (current)
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 And yet, even with all the highly entertaining recrimination, sniping and backbiting, the film has the power to do real harm, introducing just enough doubt to keep people from taking basic steps to keep themselves safe from COVID and other serious illnesses. And yet, even with all the highly entertaining recrimination, sniping and backbiting, the film has the power to do real harm, introducing just enough doubt to keep people from taking basic steps to keep themselves safe from COVID and other serious illnesses.
 ((https://web.archive.org/web/20221208192233/https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5v9yj/now-the-anti-vaccine-world-is-mad-at-died-suddenly-the-viral-anti-vax-documentary)) ((https://web.archive.org/web/20221208192233/https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5v9yj/now-the-anti-vaccine-world-is-mad-at-died-suddenly-the-viral-anti-vax-documentary))
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 +==== Anti-Vaxers Celebrate Twitter's New COVID Misinformation Policy ====
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 +Some of the most pernicious bad actors on the platform are cheering Twitter’s sudden decision to stop enforcing COVID guidelines. 
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 +by Anna Merlan - December 2, 2022
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 +“A win,” Simone Gold exulted recently on Twitter, “for free speech and medical freedom!” 
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 +Gold is the founder of America’s Frontline Doctors, a pseudo-medical organization devoted to spreading bad information about COVID and vaccines. Her good mood was due to a brief statement by Twitter that it will no longer enforce its policy against misleading information about COVID-19. 
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 +Gold was not alone in celebrating; several major players in the COVID disinformation sphere have been openly thrilled by the policy change. They included **journalist-turned-COVID troll** [[:Alex Berenson]], who tweeted, “This is the most consequential win for free speech yet. Thanks @elonmusk.” 
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 +[[:Robert F. Kennedy Jr]]., founder of the **major anti-vaccine** organization [[:Children’s Health Defense]], also seemed pleased; he tweeted a link to an [[:Epoch Times]] story about the change. 
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 +Meanwhile, extremely noisy right-wing Youtuber [[:Steven Crowder]] tweeted, “Now that Twitter stopped enforcing its COVID ‘misinformation’ policies, I can finally tell you that the vaccine doesn't work, masks are useless, & the lockdowns did more harm than good. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.”  
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 +That general sentiment was echoed by a number of right-wing figures: that Musk had created an exhilarating freedom of discussion. In a thread about the supposed dangers of flu shots, professor-turned-podcaster and vaccine skeptic [[:Bret Weinstein]] tweeted, “We can now discuss topics like this openly on Twitter because @elonmusk has suspended the absurd “Covid Misinformation” policy.((https://web.archive.org/web/20221208192233/https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5v9yj/now-the-anti-vaccine-world-is-mad-at-died-suddenly-the-viral-anti-vax-documentary))
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