Charday Penn/iStock(NEW YORK) At least until June 2021, Facebook had significant gaps in its efforts to tackle COVID-19 misinformation from one of the most prominent anti-vaccine groups in the world, according to a study from ISD Global, a U.K.-based think tank that studies polarization, extremism and misinformation. During the first year of the pandemic, Facebook pages associated with the World Doctors Alliance an anti-vaccine group whose members regularly post false information about COVID-19 ballooned in popularity, according to ISD Global, despite consistent breaches of Facebook's own COVID-19 and vaccine policies. The group's primary page was removed from the platform in July 2021. "The World Doctors Alliance is a collective of pseudo-science influencers … that hijacked the pandemic to build up a significant audience online in a multitude of languages in multiple continents," Ben Decker, CEO of Memetica, a digital investigations consultancy firm, told A
TikTok’s apparent negligence in moderating COVID-19 and vaccine misinformation has turned the platform into a shoddily regulated marketplace of lies, unsubstantiated medical advice, and far-right conspiracy theories.
Although a transparency report TikTok released in February hyped the company’s efforts to combat COVID-19 misinformation, dangerous content regarding COVID-19 and related vaccines still heavily plagues the app. Some mediaoutlets wrote up the transparency report without critically evaluating the platform’s COVID-19 misinformation ecosystem, giving TikTok free, undeserved PR. But the prominence of COVID-19 misinformation on the platform tells a very different story.
The report noted that TikTok removed 89 million videos for violating its community standards in the second half of 2020, but only 51,000 of those were removed for promoting COVID-19 misinformation. Although 51,000 may appear as a substantial number, it is not aggressive enough to counteract the rapi
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