Who is the pizza king’? The secret language being used by anti-vaccine groups to skirt detection Ben Collins and Brandy Zadrozny © Provided by NBC News
Some anti-vaccination groups on Facebook are changing their names to euphemisms like “Dance Party” or “Dinner Party,” and using code words to fit those themes in order to skirt bans from Facebook, as the company attempts to crack down on misinformation about Covid-19 vaccines.
The groups, which are largely private and unsearchable but retain large user bases accrued during the years Facebook permitted anti-vaccination content, also swap out language to fit the new themes and provide code legends, according to screenshots provided to NBC News by multiple members of the groups.
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A new study published by the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Study urged the human rights sector in the Philippines to use the internet strategically to fight President Rodrigo Duterte’s demonization of human rights principles and win back public trust.
“Human rights organizations are handicapped in their ability to cope with information warfare under the current political environment as they have failed to make significant investments in strategic communication,” said the study Human Rights in Survival Mode: Rebuilding Trust and Supporting Digital Workers in the Philippines.
It underscored the importance of digital media in connecting communities and shaping public opinion on human rights, which it said was especially highlighted during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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